My name is Alan Kindree. I am the CEO of the Atlanta Volunteers. I would like your help in planning for large food orders for two world record boat parade attempts. We have food selection, safety, labeling, lead times, pricing and logistical questions. There may be other similar events.
We think that sandwiches and wraps with condiments on the side are our only possible safe serve food choices as there would be 2 days where we keep them refrigerated plus whatever lead and preparation time you have. Perhaps you have other creative food ideas.
We will deliver a list with zip lock bags that have labels for content and delivery. Your wrapped food goes inside. Once we know what food orders are possible, then we would have to figure out your maximum capacity for producing and storing it would be.
It is important that you know some background information for planning and marketing.
The Atlanta Volunteers partnered with Georgia Folds of Honor, Tunnel to Towers, and other nonprofits related to First Responders, Veterans and people born with the special powers of Down syndrome, autism, spina bifida and more. We will be expanding this list of nonprofits. Each nonprofit will be using our interactive software during the boat parade and at other times to fund raise for their organization. All these nonprofits are a source for volunteers for our world record attempts.
It is possible that with all these nonprofits sending volunteers, we may reach capacity for what the Corps of Engineers will allow on Lake Lanier.
For the boat parade if we have 1,120 boats to break the record, we may have 5,000 food orders to cover crew and volunteers.
The Atlanta Volunteers has developed interactive boat parade software that solves logistical, food labeling and world record verification. The software has features for broadcast, fund raising and content creation. Think of this software as being able to manage all the booths, exhibits, performances and contests at a state fair.
You can see the software at piratedivebar.com or just click on the “Home” menu above. The software is being debugged so there is no content and some links and pages will be modified.
P.S. This is found on our home page. You may find it interesting. If you do, we are looking for a home for this software for testing and training. If you look at the “Welcome” menu, you will see that I put up a Good Ol’ Days chat room, zoom and other socialization features that your patrons should enjoy. All it takes is the display of our QR codes on business cards, under packing tape or even printed with temporary tattoo paper and worn by anyone who wants a personalized QR code tattoo that goes to whatever page they want to create.
A bigger booty!
Your patrons have a lot of great ideas. They love their servers and want to make them successful. Loony coupons let anyone create fun to make servers successful.
Lots of fun brings lots of happy customers and the servers get more tips while the patrons are having more fun. Occasionally, with loony coupons servers get a second tip. This is much larger than their usual tips and this is well before the bill for the food and drinks and usually when a patron first sits down.
This is how
Loonies are a donation reward coin that are 100% worthless and as unredeemable as the pirates using them for grub, grog, wenches, loony bets, sea shanty challenges or just squandering them. You can “Get Loony” doing anything. You can win them while playing darts, you can earn them as a volunteer, you can donate a bicycle or household items you can sell clues to a treasure map, you can make a loony bet on a karaoke challenge or you can win a catfishing tournament. You can also get loony by donating to any of the nonprofits we list. You get 1 loony for every 25 cents you donate. The nonprofit gets 100% of your donation through PayPal and loonies are created on a public ledger for each donation.
Lets say a person wants to fund raise for Georgia Folds of Honor. They will donate a used $700 bicycle for 500 loonies. ($125 in donations) The easy way to get the bicycle is donate $125 to get 500 loonies. Can you have enough fun or volunteer enough to get 500 loonies or is there another way? A server (we call them Mermaids) has created 5 loony coupons as bait for her Mermaids Lair. (food discounts and fun at the sports bar where she works).
She has been catfishing for loonies all week and now her treasure chest is engorged, and her loony booty is really big. You do a booty search on her and find out she has catfished over 1,000 loonies. She also has a loony coupon selling her loony booty for cash. For $50 she will let you get loony 600 times!
You talk her down to $40 for 800 loonies. You reply to her loony coupon and say next time you see her at the restaurant you will give her $40 for the 800 loonies. You walk in, sit down, she transfers 800 loonies to you and you hand her $40 and give her your food order. Later on when you are done, you will be tipping her again for the food and drinks.
Here is what just happened!
800 loonies represent $200 in donations that the nonprofits received from maybe 20 or 30 people. People with a loony booty have fed a “Mermaid at the petting zoo” a few loonies each for maybe 200 uses of loony coupons for food discounts that the Mermaid created. With one click by the patron, the coupon is redeemed and the loonies are tucked into the Mermaids treasure chest, where she keeps the rest of the booty.
A $40 tip was given to the Mermaid. The person that donated the bicycle has 500 loonies for raising $125 and a tax recipt for their donation of a bicycle. One person got a bicycle for $40 saving $85 and they still have 300 loonies in their treasure chest. ($75 in loonies). For taxes, the restuarant has an itemized donation list for each and every discount they gave to the nonprofits to produce the Mermaids discount food coupons.
Loonies shrink by 15% each time you transfer them. Eventually after 5 or 6 transfers somebody will have to donate again to get loony. Loonies are only created by PayPal when somebody donates to a nonprofit.
Amazing process for free!
When a patron clicks on a loony coupon a reciept shows up on their phone screen. The patron shows the phone screen to the server to redeem the coupon. With that one click a donation receipt and public ledger is created and loonies go into the Mermaids treasure chest. This free process is hands free for the Mermaid, involves no credit cards for the patron, no scanner is used and no hardware or software is needed by the restuarant. There is one catch! Donations are the fuel. If nobody donates to their favorite nonprofit, the whole process shuts down. If patrons keep creating pool tournaments, karaoke challenges, donating items, volunteering and having fun to recycle loonies, there are reasons to donate real money. When a Mermaid creates a loony coupon that says “8 loonies ($2) get $4 off” why wouldn’t you donate? Loonies are the renewable green energy with zero pollutants that we have all been waiting for!
