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but good luck finding a restaurant that can cater to 200-300 people at once Do the attendees really all have to go to the same restaurant?

• dagw 14y ago
  As someone else mentioned, the real conference happens around the food, the speakers and presentations are just a side show. If everybody disappeared off with their friends to eat on their own, then you've lost much of the point of a conference. At every conference I've been to the highlights have almost always been meeting awesome people over lunch or drinks, and only very rarely any of the actual presentations.
  • kd0amg 14y ago
    I've only gone to conference once, but I generally ate out with groups of people who didn't already all know each other. A table only holds so many people, so the same strategy is necessary whether people scatter to restaurants or stay in one place for a catered meal.