/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

>>8913586
I'm not "telling myself that", you literally have no idea how much these types of things typically cost if you think $20 is expensive.

I've organized tea parties outside of convention settings, and it's not cheap. Inside of convention settings it costs even more.

Usually a lolita tea party at a convention costs $45-$75.

>>8914570
Hotels / Convention Centers typically have contracts for catering. To serve food in the space, you either have to use their catering service or pay a fee for outside catering. The fees are ridiculous. It's not like "hey, give us $20 and you are good", it's usually more like "give us a few hundred dollars".

And no respectable hotel (aka anything bigger than a bug infested motel) or convention center is buying stuff from a grocery or dollar store. They are buying from a food service company that supplies things to places like hotels, cafeterias and starbucks or making it in house.

That said, the profit margin on the convention center side is huge, I'm sure, that's why they have the contracts the way they do.

But they weren't the ones hosting the party.

The people hosting the party probably had a negligible profit margin. That is what I'm saying.

>>8790027