The dancing is great - excellent callers and bands doing their best - and lots of smiling participants. We had lots of fun but were completely exhausted from the dancing and the labor below.
This year as several years in the past Lavender Country & Folk Dancers and Boston Gay & Lesbian Dancers operated a food booth. Our ethnicity was Italian - we served pasta with marinara sauce with or without meat of veggie meat balls, salad, hot dogs, meatball subs, lemonade and iced tea. We had about 30 volunteers doing the work. Chris Ricciotti (pictured behind the cut), our Queen Mum, was head chef and manager,
rsc was volunteer coordinator.rsc and I went out Friday afternoon to help setup. Among other things I chopped onions and cut lemons into wedges for about an hour with a not very sharp knife. We helped cleanup on Sat night and Sunday afternoon. We bought too much food, didn't charge enough (we upped the prices on Saturday night) and thus didn't make as much money as we could have. Also the menu was much too complicated, large and small pastas with/ or without 3 or 4 meatballs; large and small salads with umpteen combo specials; single or double hot-dogs, and 3 sizes of drinks...It kept the cashier busy. (I did some of that too). I guess I'll have take a more active role in the business management side of this for next time; (so what's new?).
I'm glad that my career was in something else other than food service!