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Re: Grub with YC alumni

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The second meal in Chicago (at Dearborn st.) has no vegan options at all. I know the value is mostly from the social experience but even so having nothing that one can eat at the dinner deters someone like me from attending.

Does Grubwithus take requests to include vegan / vegetarian options?

Re: Grub with YC alumni

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

This page was sent out to a bunch of YC founders before posting it here. Just scanning the list I see at least two YC alumni (and usually three or more) at every meal except for La Fiesta, where it's apparently just me so far!

LA seems to have none. I did a manual google search for each attendee (after going through individual profiles) and no one seems to be a YC alum. (I could be wrong, just looked quickly through 10 people) They should just have a separate list for YC alum attending, kind of like you have for speakers at an event.

The first meal in LA has Hamilton Chen from Paperlinks and Nikhil Pandit from Graffiti Geo (sold to Loopt). The second meal has Joey and Yotam from Earbits and..me

Re: Grub with YC alumni

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post #11

The second meal in Chicago (at Dearborn st.) has no vegan options at all. I know the value is mostly from the social experience but even so having nothing that one can eat at the dinner deters someone like me from attending. Does Grubwithus take requests to include vegan / vegetarian options?

I'm vegetarian so I know your pain. We try to have veggie dishes whenever possible, but that restaurant is a barbecue joint...sorry. I'll see if there's anything they can make though.

Re: Grub with YC alumni

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post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

LA seems to have none. I did a manual google search for each attendee (after going through individual profiles) and no one seems to be a YC alum. (I could be wrong, just looked quickly through 10 people) They should just have a separate list for YC alum attending, kind of like you have for speakers at an event.

The first meal in LA has Hamilton Chen from Paperlinks and Nikhil Pandit from Graffiti Geo (sold to Loopt). The second meal has Joey and Yotam from Earbits and..me

Hamilton is awesome. I don't know Nikhil, but I can say that dinner with Hamilton will be full of great insights on people, products, business, and your ideas. He's an awesome guy, and I'd be grabbing this meal if I was down in LA!

Re: Grub with YC alumni

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post #5

Pardon my ignorance, but will there be a ‘alumni to attendee’ ratio maintained? Is there any guarantee if alumni will show up? If yes who and how many?

This page was sent out to a bunch of YC founders before posting it here. Just scanning the list I see at least two YC alumni (and usually three or more) at every meal except for La Fiesta, where it's apparently just me so far!

We're going to find someone to add to the meal real soon =)

Re: Grub with YC alumni

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post #14
post #11

The second meal in Chicago (at Dearborn st.) has no vegan options at all. I know the value is mostly from the social experience but even so having nothing that one can eat at the dinner deters someone like me from attending. Does Grubwithus take requests to include vegan / vegetarian options?

I'm vegetarian so I know your pain. We try to have veggie dishes whenever possible, but that restaurant is a barbecue joint...sorry. I'll see if there's anything they can make though.

Thanks. No worries for this case, though. I just got into the one at La Madia.

Re: Grub with YC alumni

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post #11

The second meal in Chicago (at Dearborn st.) has no vegan options at all. I know the value is mostly from the social experience but even so having nothing that one can eat at the dinner deters someone like me from attending. Does Grubwithus take requests to include vegan / vegetarian options?

I believe the menus are usually publicly available beforehand. If there are no vegan options, just don't go. I don't think it's reasonable to assume that every dinner with a pre-set menu will cater toward every minority's dietary choices.

Re: Grub with YC alumni

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Pardon my ignorance, but will there be a ‘alumni to attendee’ ratio maintained? Is there any guarantee if alumni will show up? If yes who and how many?

FWIW, I went to "Grub with Techcrunch Disrupt Attendees" and no one at the table was an actual TC attendee. Other than it happening to fall on the same day, there was no connection.
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