b33r festival query

[j4]

Does anyboydie know what the deal is WRT free food and cheap beer if you work at the beer festival? I was thinking of going and working tonight if they need people, but basically (dreadful selfish person that I am) I would partly be doing it so as to get fed & watered on the cheap... But, I already have food in for tonight, so getting fed wouldn't be much use to me.

So, do you get food tokens, or food only at the time you're working, or what?

Is anybody else going tonight (working or drinking or both)?

Comments

[saraphale.livejournal.com]

Last year, at least, you got tokens for both food and drink. Theoretically, a set number of tokens per shift, but it seemed to be random. I won't be working there this year, though, as I don't want to be shouted at again by uncivil staff members.

[j4.livejournal.com]

Ah. Part of the reason I was going to try to work this year was so that I might avoid getting shouted at by uncivil staff members for being a crap CAMRA member who doesn't contribute anything...

[saraphale.livejournal.com]

You'll be fine, you've worked behind a bar. I got shouted at for not knowing things. To be fair, he was probably under a lot of stress, but I refuse to be a target for that sort of thing.

[j4.livejournal.com]

I don't blame you. If they want people to come back -- and every year they whinge that there aren't enough people -- then they have to treat them well. Yes, the organisers are under stress, but if they can't cope with looking after a team of untrained volunteers they shouldn't be running one.

I wouldn't have thought there'd be much to need to know -- beer is labelled with what beer it is, you turn the tap and it ends up in the glass, it comes in pint or half-pint quantities. If there's more to know than that then I've never needed to know it for serving the real ale at the Carlton... so I will probably get shouted at anyway. :-/

[fluffymormegil.livejournal.com]

From my (limited) experience of serving beer at the beer festival, that's about all you need to know.

[saraphale.livejournal.com]

That, and not leaning on the benches and the barrels. And when they say 'Go and have a break, get some food', they mean 'Stay here behind the bar'