One thing in future Ride to Eats we all have to follow a rule whoever joins the list must indicate if he/she joins the dinner or not.....the list of april 27 consisted of 36 names 5 members said no dinner Grame and Sally informed they could not make it and Rainer & Heike broke down( that can always happen and should not be a problem.Left us with27 for dinner which was the info I gave the restaurant we ended with 21 there i.e. 6 no shows where the restaurant was fully booked and they turned down other clientele....this is not good for the future as I had to settle this with them of course....in future I think we all should agree if we join the list we are responsible for it even if we dont show up for any other reason than breakdown of bike/accident etc.....
I could not agree more with you if you say you are going you go if you cant and dont say so you should expect to have to pay, why should someone else pick up the cost or have it shared out between those who went
it is all too easy just to say your going but for some reason people find it hard to inform other that wont be going. I kept hoping we could make it but got to the point where i had to say we cant. however if things had changed we would have turned up on the chance but would not have expected to get a meal with it been pre booked
We do not want to have to start taking a deposit