High Class Passenger Food + Entertainment Requirements

[Sliceydicey]

The book says that high class passengers travel in luxury and generally expect great food and entertainment. With that in mind, can any old trading ship take on high class passengers, or do they need to demonstrate they have gone beyond the usual basic rations and ship's library for entertainment?

In terms of rations, how do people usually handle the costs for "high class" food?

 

[phavoc]

The book says that high class passengers travel in luxury and generally expect great food and entertainment. With that in mind, can any old trading ship take on high class passengers, or do they need to demonstrate they have gone beyond the usual basic rations and ship's library for entertainment?

In terms of rations, how do people usually handle the costs for "high class" food?

In theory only liners should be able to take on a high passenger. No subsidized merchant or subsidized liner would have the normal facilities for that. The book doesn't explicitly stop you from doing it, but common sense should tell you that would never normally happen.

As for costs, you'd want to equate it back to the SOC level. Generally speaking, a high-class passenger (SOC 7/8) would normally spend at least Cr50/day on meals, more if they were higher SOC. That's not including booze, which can easily double the charges.

 

[wbnc]

Just hope they don't order All natural, organic, vegan, gluten free, foods, locally sourced, and farmed with sustainable practices..

Or that the nobles daughter isn't on an ancient culture kick, and wants only authentic pre-starflight foods using the ancient recipes....and only authentic ingredients...

"whats a hamburger?...Where the heck am I going to find sesame seed buns????

"your kidding me......fifty credits a Kilo for Terran lettuce??? ..........Yeah I know how many light years it is to SOl...yeah I know it's a desert world........no I don't know how hard it is to grow the stuff......But fifty a Kay......come cut me a break.."


"Oh god, this is so wrong..I cant eat this...look at it it looks like someone threw up on my plate.....I told you two all beef patties..special sauce...THEN lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions – on a sesame seed bun." .

 

[Condottiere]

Steward streetwise, broker, to get the best deals on the best food, fresh or tri dee dinners.

No one can expect much from a free trader, an ace chef would have been headhunted away.

 

[AndrewW]

No one can expect much from a free trader, an ace chef would have been headhunted away.

But might be working that free trader to avoid Imperial entanglements.

 

[ShawnDriscoll]

Just hope they don't order All natural, organic, vegan, gluten free, foods, locally sourced, and farmed with sustainable practices..

A Vilani eats baby food. Pre-digested powdered stuff. Stuff that the vending machines can spit out on a lunch tray.

 

[wbnc]

Just hope they don't order All natural, organic, vegan, gluten free, foods, locally sourced, and farmed with sustainable practices..

A Vilani eats baby food. Pre-digested powdered stuff. Stuff that the vending machines can spit out on a lunch tray.

Mrs. Murphy: Help you boys?
Elwood: You got any white bread?
Mrs. Murphy: Yes.
Elwood: I'll have some toasted white bread, please.
Mrs. Murphy: You want butter or jam on that toast, honey?
Elwood: No, ma'am, dry.
[Mrs. Murphy gives him a look, then turns to Jake]
Jake: Got any fried chicken?
Mrs. Murphy: Best damn chicken in the state.
Jake: Bring me four fried chickens and a Coke.
Mrs. Murphy: You want chicken wings or chicken legs?
Jake: Four fried chickens and a Coke.
Elwood: And some dry white toast, please.
Mrs. Murphy: Y'all want anything to drink with that?
Elwood: No, ma'am.
Jake: A Coke.
Mrs. Murphy: Be up in a minute.
[She goes into the kitchen, where Matt is cooking]
Mrs. Murphy: We got two honkies out there dressed like Hasidic diamond merchants.
Matt "Guitar" Murphy: Say what?
Mrs. Murphy: They look like they're from the CIA or somethin'.
Matt "Guitar" Murphy: What they want to eat?
Mrs. Murphy: The tall one wants white toast, dry, with nothin' on it.
Matt "Guitar" Murphy: Elwood.

Food preferences are an untapped source of fun and mayhem in a game....Everyone one is ready for a pirate attack, but a spoiled, eccentric, noble with credits to burn If he is happy with the service...
and it could set up a series of runs for the crew if they pull it off.
"I say, your chef is surprisingly adept...within your rather primitive facilities..See my agent on Jewel I will have a word with him about some favorable considerations in future dealings."

Or the Responsible part in the case of a Youth, or child, wife, mistress etc......" II can't believe you didn't dump her/him out an airlock.( dry chuckle) If you can handle her I think you can handle a few cargo runs. See my Broker, we'll have some work for you."

 

[Condottiere]

Not everyone can be an ace chef, some are muppets.