The Meal Tickets need to be completed (printed, cut & numbered?) by the end of the day on Tuesday, the week of the festival so they can be inserted into Registration Packets.
There are 3 basic approaches to meal tickets. The first is to make a different ticket for each meal. The other is to make a universal ticket which can be used for all meals. How all this is handled is completely at the host’s discretion.
The Combo Name-Tag Meal Ticket Approach:
Name-Tags double as meal tickets
A symbol for each meal purchase is printed at the bottom of name-tags
The symbol can get hole punched, marked, or just visually checked
The Individual Meal Ticket Approach:
Each meal has a different color ticket
The date and name of the meal is on the ticket (Friday Lunch)
Directors can distribute tickets for a meal just prior to that meal so folks have less chance of losing them
Tickets are collected or torn by the host staff at the serving line
The Universal Ticket Approach:
List all Meals on the ticket.
There are fewer little pieces of paper to deal with but a higher potential for loss
Tickets are marked or punched by the host staff at the serving line
Ticket Specifications:
Use the festival logo on the tickets or in the background.
Ticket art work can be laid out on most word processors, photocopied onto colored paper and cut on a paper cutter.
Making Meal Tickets a different size from show tickets reduces confusion.