Re: [114attendees] Coffee carts (was: thanks Comcast!)

Thanks Jay and Comcast! I, for one, enjoyed the coffee carts. And certainly
would have liked move availability but appreciated what was offered. Also
appreciated the city views :)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/brian-d-campbell/52252097351

On Fri, Jul 29, 2022 at 1:20 PM Jay Daley <exec-director@ietf.org> wrote:

> Hi
>
> The background to the coffee carts is that we had a review of the benefits
> that provided to meeting hosts and decided that adding coffee carts, funded
> from the existing host fee, would give hosts more value from their
> commitment, provide ongoing promotion of the meeting host throughout the
> meeting, and of course be something that onsite participants would benefit
> from.  We looked at a range of service providers, hours, capacities and
> costs and settled on two carts in the morning only.  When we have the data
> (number of cups made, average time per cup, etc) then we will review to see
> if we should offer it differently (suggestions most welcome).
>
> As to whether we offer it for every meeting, that depends on three things
> - will the venue allow us to do this (many do not allow third party
> caterers of any kind), are there suitable local providers, and is the local
> coffee good enough to drink (ok maybe that’s a bit subjective).
>
> Jay
>
>
> > On 29 Jul 2022, at 14:02, Dave Lawrence <tale@dd.org> wrote:
> >
> > Jim Reid writes:
> >> Thanks too for sponsoring the baristas. It was great to have some
> >> good coffee to drink at the meeting. I hope this can be repeated at
> >> future IETFs - not necessarily sponsored by Comcast. :-)
> >
> > It'd be great to follow the NANOG model and have them available all
> > day.   (I say that in complete ignorance of what the cost is, and
> > guess that is probably the reason it hasn't been done already.)
> >
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