| POLICIES
AND PROCEDURES
Dinners
Dinners prearranged by us will be served at
a designated supporting restaurant in each
stopping town and are all all-you-can-eat. Where possible
the restaurants are more local, mom and pop style
(i.e.
non-national
chains).
Some of the restaurants will have
a buffet set up and others will serve you
individually plated meals. At the non-buffet
restaurants you are free to order all you want if
you are still
hungry after your first plate, but please help
us keep the price of our events low by eating all
you
take.
Dinners prearranged by us will only be provided
at the supporting restaurant in each
stopping town.
If you
decide to eat dinner at a restaurant
other than our supporting one, you will not receive
a refund for dinner.
Serving Times
You won't arrive at the end of the ride at the same time as every other participant,
so why should you wait to have dinner all at the same time?
One of the best things about having dinner at the
restaurants is that you will be able to go to the
restaurant and eat dinner when you want
to. You won’t have to wait to eat all hungry
and tired from the road until a specific serving
time, only to wait in a incredibly long serving lines
with everyone else who had to wait for dinner.
The hours of operation for the supporting restaurant
in each stopping town will be listed on the in town
maps. Most of the restaurants will be open when you
arrive in town and if they are not, they will open
very soon.
Menu Items
The dinner menu selection will be simple but very high quality and quantity.
Most dinners will consist of pasta type dishes accompanied by salad and bread.
These types of meals are perfect for the nutritional needs of cyclists since
they are high in carbohydrates, extremely nutritious, and very appetite satisfying.
All dinners will also include non-alcoholic beverages such as iced tea, pop,
or milk.
We will cover the gratuity for all prearranged dinners,
but if you feel that you’ve received outstanding
service you may certainly leave an additional tip
for the wait staff if feel they provided you outstanding
service.
If you wish to drink alcoholic beverages you will
need to pay for them on your own.
Access Control
We will need to be very strict about making sure only the right people receive
dinners prearranged by us at our supporting restaurants.
All restaurants will always check your wristband
to identify you as a participant and will be strictly
instructed not to serve anyone without a wristband.
Specific procedures at each restaurant will vary,
but may include such actions as checking your ID
against an approved guest list supplied by us to
them and using meal tickets or punch cards which
you will receive in your registration materials.
If meal tickets and/or punch cards are used, they
will be good as cash and cannot be replaced so you
will need to put them in a safe place and do not
lose them. Only a limited number of meal tickets
will be issued and if you lose them you will have
to pay for dinner on your own. |
