I greatly appreciate any suggestions. Most of my best ideas are stolen from someone else. For the record, I need a good location, good food, reasonable price, availability on a high demand day, the ability to accommodate 50 to 100 people (This is frequently the biggest problem), A private room, and I am only interested in a full meal as opposed to just snacks. That’s the way it is. It usually cost a few bucks extra because it takes me a lot of time and effort and I generally have to sign a contract with minimum guarantees and stick my neck out for a couple thousand dollars if enough people don’t show up. I build in a small profit margin to cover my time and effort and financial risk. It costs people a few dollars extra for the availability of a venue to get together with a whole bunch of other purple wearing wildcat fans, but if you show up you will get a full meal.A small number of people always bitch about the price, can’t please everybody, but no one will ever tell you that they went away from one of my parties hungry.
PS the party in Nashville was an exception, I was lied to and misled by the management, Came extremely close to canceling the party at the last minute, it was either cancel the party or have it outside and overcharge people. At least I knew that the location and food would be very good because we had a party there in 2010 for the Vanderbilt game.I really regret the price, but it was that or cancel. I checked about 15 other locations, and everywhere else was worse or more expensive.