Quoting john_re john_re@fastmail.us:
How many have RSV'd so far? Based on past #'s, what's a current estimate for attendance for this meeting? Do you think it will make the #'s for the upper room?
For RSVPs before the meeting, and adding speaker and Andrew Fife, I came up with a total of 26.
I think our actual total worked out to be right around 23 - inclucing a few folks that weren't joining us for dinner.
I estimate we had about 23 ('tis often easier to estimate past, than future, eh?).
And no, ... "magic" number to pretty much assure we'll have dinner in the "upper room" (3rd floor banquet room) is 40 - so we ate "downstairs" (2nd floor main dining room), and went upstairs for the talk/presentation.
We may have had a somewhat lower turnout than we otherwise might have had, due mainly to: A) first weekday after 3-day weekend (at least for many folks) B) post-inauguration parties, etc. (I got on BART around 11:00 P.M., and there were still many folks quite obviously returning from post-inauguration parties/celebrations).
Michael Paoli wrote:
And no, ... "magic" number to pretty much assure we'll have dinner in the "upper room" (3rd floor banquet room) is 40 - so we ate "downstairs" (2nd floor main dining room), and went upstairs for the talk/presentation.
An important clarification is that the 40 RSVP number is only "magic" the day before the event. We have on a couple of occasions had 40 turn up for dinner, but that is irrelevant to eating upstairs because the Four Seas naturally needs advance notice to prep and staff their upstairs kitchen.