Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I hate pot lucks with groups outside my close friends and family. I don’t know your hygiene standards when cooking (do you lick a spoon and put it back in? Do you allow cats on your counters?).

Have the party catered and tell them beforehand the cost per person.

I guess you never go to restaurants or catered affairs. I worked for both one summer and you would simply die if you ever saw a prep cook pick her nose and then get back to preparing tray of hors d'oeuvres. Waiters who don't wash their hands and who sample fries from plates ready to go out. Bread picked up from floor and sent out. Once I saw someone drop a large bowl of chicken salad on the kitchen floor and it was picked up and used.

Think twice next time you go out to eat. FWIW. I Worked in a top restaurant and best catering company in the area.

Gross.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Op here. There is no sign up genius or specified instructions. Well, I thought parents would voluntarily message in a group text telling everyone what they could bring. This potluck party is mainly for kids, but we also expect parents to eat because it is around lunch time. Well, I hate to collect money, so difficult to follow up if some decide not to chip in.

Did you ask people to? If I knew and event was potluck, I would bring something, but it wouldn’t occur to me to message everyone.

The logistics of a lunch time potluck are lousy.

Lunch time potluck doesn’t work without organizing. Plan a theme (like sandwiches) and create items to sign up for (bread, cold cuts, chips, fruit, etc).

If you told me a lunch potluck, I would probably bring some cut-up fruit and assume you are providing pizza for the main without more direction. I wouldn’t know what else to bring.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I hate pot lucks with groups outside my close friends and family. I don’t know your hygiene standards when cooking (do you lick a spoon and put it back in? Do you allow cats on your counters?).

Have the party catered and tell them beforehand the cost per person.

I guess you never go to restaurants or catered affairs. I worked for both one summer and you would simply die if you ever saw a prep cook pick her nose and then get back to preparing tray of hors d'oeuvres. Waiters who don't wash their hands and who sample fries from plates ready to go out. Bread picked up from floor and sent out. Once I saw someone drop a large bowl of chicken salad on the kitchen floor and it was picked up and used.

Think twice next time you go out to eat. FWIW. I Worked in a top restaurant and best catering company in the area.

And even though lots of appalling things happen to our food we do not know about...we live on.

Anonymous wrote:Op here. There is no sign up genius or specified instructions. Well, I thought parents would voluntarily message in a group text telling everyone what they could bring. This potluck party is mainly for kids, but we also expect parents to eat because it is around lunch time. Well, I hate to collect money, so difficult to follow up if some decide not to chip in.

Did you ask people to? If I knew and event was potluck, I would bring something, but it wouldn’t occur to me to message everyone.

The logistics of a lunch time potluck are lousy.

Anonymous wrote:I hate pot lucks with groups outside my close friends and family. I don’t know your hygiene standards when cooking (do you lick a spoon and put it back in? Do you allow cats on your counters?).

Have the party catered and tell them beforehand the cost per person.

I guess you never go to restaurants or catered affairs. I worked for both one summer and you would simply die if you ever saw a prep cook pick her nose and then get back to preparing tray of hors d'oeuvres. Waiters who don't wash their hands and who sample fries from plates ready to go out. Bread picked up from floor and sent out. Once I saw someone drop a large bowl of chicken salad on the kitchen floor and it was picked up and used.

Think twice next time you go out to eat. FWIW. I Worked in a top restaurant and best catering company in the area.

please just cater it and tell me how much to pay per person…and also don’t charge me for my toddler to eat two bites off my plate, happy to pay full fare for the kid the event is for.

Anonymous wrote:Most of these parties have someone buying pizza and then others being drinks or dessert. Not everyone brings something.

That sounda right. Basic are pizza, drinks and dessert. However if there are 10 kids in a team, at least another 10 adults (1 adult per kid) plus maybe additional grandparents,spouse, family or siblings. That is easy 25-30 people for head count. How many boxes of pizzas do others assume when one parent text he/she would bring pizza? Omg..no one single person is going to bring enough to feed all these people, and I would say at most 2-3 boxes. That is what potluck party for.

What is the portion food rule for each person at potluck party? Some other people have to bring appetizers, chips, or other main entrees to be able to feed the group.

Most of these parties have someone buying pizza and then others being drinks or dessert. Not everyone brings something.

Anonymous wrote:Op here. There is no sign up genius or specified instructions. Well, I thought parents would voluntarily message in a group text telling everyone what they could bring. This potluck party is mainly for kids, but we also expect parents to eat because it is around lunch time. Well, I hate to collect money, so difficult to follow up if some decide not to chip in.

People, even those who pay $$ to belong to sports teams, are lazy. And takers. Lesson learned OP.

Anonymous wrote:Op here. There is no sign up genius or specified instructions. Well, I thought parents would voluntarily message in a group text telling everyone what they could bring. This potluck party is mainly for kids, but we also expect parents to eat because it is around lunch time. Well, I hate to collect money, so difficult to follow up if some decide not to chip in.

Oh…no. This was never going to happen. People need explicit instructions/demands to be moved to action these days, apparently.

Anonymous wrote:Op here. There is no sign up genius or specified instructions. Well, I thought parents would voluntarily message in a group text telling everyone what they could bring. This potluck party is mainly for kids, but we also expect parents to eat because it is around lunch time. Well, I hate to collect money, so difficult to follow up if some decide not to chip in.

Well now you know OP. Poor planning.

Op here. There is no sign up genius or specified instructions. Well, I thought parents would voluntarily message in a group text telling everyone what they could bring. This potluck party is mainly for kids, but we also expect parents to eat because it is around lunch time. Well, I hate to collect money, so difficult to follow up if some decide not to chip in.

The student’s in my child’s class specifically asked the teachers for a potluck for the end of year party. So sounds like a lot of kids like them. There is a sign up genius, would not do it without.

Anonymous wrote:Ew. No one likes pot lucks not in norovirus season.

Late May is norovirus season?

^And tell them it's their job to feed themselves!