[vox] Food & cake for this month's meeting

[Bill Kendrick]

So we've used Village Bakery many times in the past.  I'm trying to remember
how many pizzas we bought last year, and whether anyone donated anything to
help buy them.

I called VB just now and they reminded me that they have one size of pizza
they offer ("large", 15 inches), and they feed "2-3 hungry people."
Consider that we'll have other snacks, and not everyone will want (or can
eat) pizza, I'll bump that up to 4-5 people.

So if we expect 40-60 people at this meeting, that's anywhere
from 8-15 pizzas.  Arbitrarily picking the middle, that's about 12 pizzas.
Cheese pizzas are $14.  Most other variations are $15.  No reason to get
the more expensive/gourmet ones, I think.  So that's ~$180 for pizza.

That IS about 3x what you were looking at for Costco pizzas, but let's
compare this more accurately.  A 15" pizza is ~706 sq inches,
while an 18" pizza is ~1018 sq inches.

You were saying $55 for pizzas, at $9.99 each, or about 5 pizzas, plus
tax I guess.  So that's ~5090 square inches.  To compare to that,
we need about 7 Village Bakery (15") pizzas.  That comes out to $105,
or about 2x what it costs for Costco.


So... do people think it's worth approx. 2x the money to get food
from a local, locally-owned business?  Or go the cheap route and
get it from a big-box store in a different town? ;)

I'll put some of my money where my mouth is (heh, literally?), and
donate a bit more if we got it from VB or somewhere else local.

-bill!
(not trying to be all high-horsed ;) )