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Paper or Real

Stated Meeting Meals: Real Plates or Paper

  • Paper plates and plasticware

    Votes: 22 81.5%
  • Real plates and metal silverware

    Votes: 3 11.1%
  • Other (please explain in a post)

    Votes: 2 7.4%

  • Total voters
    27
  • Poll closed .

Preston DuBose

Registered User
Our lodge uses paper plates and plasticware for meals. My sense is that this is pretty common since nobody likes to wash dishes. Rather than guessing though, I thought I'd poll the audience. What are the meals at your stated meetings served on? If you vote in the poll, I would appreciate it if you would follow up with a post listing the average number of people who attend the meals and whether a fee is REQUIRED.
 

Jacob Johnson

Registered User
We do paper plates. It's easier. We usually have between 10-20 show up for dinner. We take donations, but there's no required fee. I'll always put in at least $5.
 

nwendele

Registered User
We usually have at least 30. No fee is required, but we put out a pot. It always has more than enough to cover.
 

RedTemplar

Johnny Joe Combs
Premium Member
We do paper plates. Depending on the occasion, we have 10-50 to enjoy the meal. The lodge picks up the tab.
 

relapse98

Registered User
Paper and plastic. No dishwasher in the kitchen and I'm not hand washing. Since we're in a drought, it's a tossup between water and landfill.

We put out a jar and I hear we get enough to cover, that money also pays for snacks the rest of the month. I usually drop a 5 in.
 

Benton

Premium Member
Voted other. We typically don't have meals before stated meetings. (Kind of wish we did.) We do have breakfast on a Saturday one a month, and always use paper/plasticware for that.
 

Brent Heilman

Premium Member
Benton said:
Voted other. We typically don't have meals before stated meetings. (Kind of wish we did.) We do have breakfast on a Saturday one a month, and always use paper/plasticware for that.

My lodge is the same as yours. We hold a breakfast on the Saturday following our first stated meeting. Always using paper. Less and easier cleanup.

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LukeD

Registered User
Our local OES comes and cooks the meals for us, which are great, and we typically put in 5-10 bucks per meal. It's their way of raising money, and since we have 2 meetings a month, they do well with about 15-20 members present at each meeting. It's all paper and plastic.
 

jwhoff

Premium Member
20-30 most meetings. That would be an awful lot of plates. We still get hung with the dishes, pots and pans. When I was in the kitchen that took some time.
 

usmc05

Registered User
Real plates and silverware.
Twenty to thirty on average. More for a special occasion. The stewards do the dishes . But it makes it alot nicer I think.
 

Scott J

Registered User
I haven't been to many, haven't been a Mason that long. But, the ones that I have been to have been paper and plastic. We have a pickle jar, (here in Texas I guess you could say that it's a small one), it has a picture off a cat taped to it. Not required but, the kitty needs to be fed.
 

Bro_Vick

Moderator
Premium Member
My mother lodge uses paper plates with real silverware, I think as others have pointed out it is to save from have to wash 30 dishes. :)

My other lodge goes out to dinner usually before the stated meeting.

-Bro Vick
 
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