We'll probably be okay without RSVP or reservation system. The restaurant can handle a fair sized crowd - hopefully we will have a good turnout.

references/excerpts:

Quoting Raymond Wong:

Sorry to bug you, but none of the linked-to messages for the Tom Limoncelli event indicates any sort of RSVP, is it really just going to be a free for all at the restaurant? Are we that sure we won't max the place out, or did I miss spotting another message about that?

< Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2006 00:15:19 -0800 < From: Michael Paoli < To: Tom Limoncelli < Cc: Dick Verna, Larry Platzek < Subject: Re: Tom Limoncelli talk/presentation March 21st at BALUG

< Sounds good. Attendance varies - I think it's ranged from about 8 to < roughly 200 or more, at least historically. These days with a speaker < such as yourself, and with us getting the information out fairly well < ahead of time, we'd likely be somewhere in the 15 to 35 range, and < probably more towards the mid to high end of that range, and possibly < more than 35. Since we haven't done or found need to do any RSVP type < system, at least thus far in recent years (the restaurant has space to < generally accommodate 100+ of us, though service might be something of < an issue if we caught them quite off-guard relative to their < expectations), we often don't really know what the turnout will be < until about the time the meeting starts.

< Quoting Tom Limoncelli:

< > About how many people tend to show up?

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