The title to this post comes from the comments from THIS STORY. The short form: a caterer was paid $10,000 to provide chow for a wedding. They provided chow; nobody seems to be complaining about the amount of food or quality of the food. What they’re complaining about is the actual food itself, including: rice with pork sausage, potatoes with ham, salad with bacon, and ham sandwiches. Who could *possibly* complain? Well… the grooms Muslim family, apparently. They seem to have a problem with tasty, tasty pork.
I’ve never paid out ten grand for a meal. But I suspect if the day ever comes when that actually seems like a good idea, I think I’ll actually try to plan the damned thing out in advance a little bit. You know, like check out the menu. If I shell out ten grand for a pizza party and didn’t actually specify pizza in advance, I guess it’s partially my fault if the caterers show up with ten grand in lutefisk.
“Since you’ve lawyered up and alerted the media, I guess there is nothing left save this: jihad.”
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Would it be PC for me to laugh hysterically?
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I’m thinking this is a case of a good contract protects both parties. In this case, the customer getting a satisfactory meal and the caterer getting a customer not inclined to take unfriendly action.
> a good contract protects both parties.
In this case, it appears that the contract specified “no pork.” But:
1) The caterer appears to have been kinda piss-poor in the “business relations” department, and was sloppy in checking their notes
2) The client appears to have been kinda lazy as well. “No pork” seems a pretty weak contract. A carefully specified menu would seem appropriate (and apparently common) for a financial expense of this size.
Seems possible the caterer might’ve swapped orders with some other shindig. “Hey, where’s all our pork dishes? Can’t have a proper American wedding without bacon!”
Apparently most of the planning and negotiations were conducted by phone and e-mail. I get the strong impression that the bride and groom were out of town (and possibly out of the country) for the better part of a year before the wedding.
(I sympathize; my bride-to-be and I lived in San Diego, but we were married in Minnesota to accommodate her family. The long-distance negotiations with the caterer and other involved parties were … frustrating. Yeah, that’s a good word.)
IF the account is accurate, I can see no other plausible cause for the mess than deliberate malice. If so, I hope the newlyweds sue the bastards.