No. of Pizza Lunch meeting attendees: 11
No. of Indians (assume non-pepperoni eaters): 4
No. of others: 6 White Americans + 1 Oriental Type
No. of people who did not eat anything: 1 Indian + 2 White Americans = 3
No. of people who did eat: 8
No. of confirmed non-vegetarians: At least 4 (including 2 Indians), probably more.
No. of confirmed vegetarians: At least 1 (Myself)
No. of pizzas ordered: 2 Pepperoni, 1 Chicken, 1 Veg
No. of pizzas left at the end of the meeting: 1 pepperoni, 80% of chicken
No. of tummies with a hollow space where there should have been food: At least 1.
No. of conclusions: 3
1. Ratio of vegetarian to non-vegetarian food consumed is ALWAYS GREATER than the ratio of vegetarians to non-vegetarians. (Unless your non-vegetarian guests are all cats and your vegetarian guests are all horses!)
2. Vegetarians eat vegetarian food only. Non-vegetarians eat both vegetarian AND non-vegetarian food.
3. At least 50% of a non-vegetarian's lunch or dinner is made of vegetarian items. This number could be even higher if all your non-vegetarian guests are Indians.
No. of lessons: 1
When ordering food for a group, order enough non-vegetarian food for the non-vegetarians. Then, order enough vegetarian food for 100% of the vegetarians PLUS at least 50% of the non-vegetarians.
Background (with prediction!):
Vegetarians get the stepmotherly treatment again!
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LL,
ReplyDeleteYour veg pizza series should be sent to all HR depts. People don't realize how many vegetarians go hungry because of their poor ordering policies. Either that, or vegetarians get embarrassed to make an issue out of going hungry and stay silent.
I've seen this happen in some dept meetings - and have gone hungry myself. Unless I'm among the first to arrive, veg pizzas are all gone. The non-veg pizzas - sausage, pepperoni or sausage-pepperoni combo are left in the end, with no takers.
Priya.
Priya - Now we cannot make veg pizza ordering part of the HR policy, can we? Ha-ha! 99% of the time time, HR has nothing to do with it. It is individual meeting or party organizers who order the food. So, it's just a matter of individual consideration and thinking.
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LL,
ReplyDeleteTrue that HR doesn't usually deal with such things. But HR can direct the dept secretaries and such (who are the usual organizers) and make them more enlightened.
If I'm an organizer, surely I will be considerate of people's tastes.
Priya.
haha...and it kills me when non-vegetarians ask, "OMG, what CAN you eat?"
ReplyDeleteAnd yeah, it would be nice if there were more consideration given to us non-animal product eating types.