[matilda] Re: how about a food co-op?

[Amparo P Gutierrez]

Now that someone has raised the point,
i just remembered the only day i contributed as a cook to Matilda, and 
that's to say thanks to 0742, who was as usual gentle in advising me 
about the kitchen in general, it was really nice to meet 0742 before 
starting cooking. Then, it looked clear that it was an astonishing 
achievement to have the kitchen space working all these weeks for the 
social thursdays and so, under the current conditions, which were as i 
was made to understand:
1. cook to provide ingredients for meal: a previoius donation of 10 
pounds or so was necessary, but there was food available from last week, 
so food was cooked despite myself being skint at the time (:-()

2. cook to cook, serve, etc (better a team, then).
3. cook to wash afterwards or arrange for washing up
4. cook to have monies reimbursed to cook (for previous investment) at 
the end of day, perhaps.

Then, adding up the time necessary (about 3 hours without including the 
social time itself, at least), some 30-50 pounds were to be invested as 
individual/collective effort of the cooking persons each Thursday. But i 
couldn't figure out any other way to have this reimbursed than by 
increasing the price of donations.


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>>>>> Erm, I don't get it. Why would anyone buy from us with a 10% markup
>>>>> instead of just going direct to Lembas?
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> dan> For the same reason they buy it from Beanies or that place on Sharrow Vale Road,
> dan> or Zeds, for more than a 10% markup.
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> Yeah but they're all established businesses, open 6 days per week,
> with shop fronts in well used neighbourhood shopping areas.
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> Lembas has free parking, open 5 days, has a huge selection and is well
> known about (and cheaper).
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> I think to get people to go out of their way and to come into Matilda
> to buy stuff is going to be very difficult. It's dark, has no shop
> front and is well away from the main shopping bits of Sheffield. And
> with limited opening hours (say one day per week) shoppers are going
> to have to make a very special visit to go there. I think to entice
> people in we're really going to need some very special offers or a
> unique selling incentive. I can't think what that could be but
> whatever it was it would have to be pretty damn good to offset all the
> negative aspects Matilda has as a shopping venue.