Buying Meal Tickets is Important ... here's why

Hotels offer meeting space to groups like OA-MAI.  The hotel gets "paid" in three ways:  hotel-room bookings, food and beverage and rental fees.  Each group negotiates its own combination of these three ways.  OA-MAI chooses a moderate amount of each.

When OA-MAI can't meet its commitment for hotel-room bookings or food-and-beverages, the difference is paid to the hotel in cash out of our profit.  Essentially, if we don't serve enough meals or book enough rooms, OA-MAI must pay a much higher rental fee for the space.  This would lead to escalating registration fees for future conventions.

When you purchase a meal ticket, it is a donation to your intergroup, to help assure that the convention meets its commitments and makes a profit.  It also helps to keep future convention fees reasonable.

OA-MAI meals are more expensive than average in large part because of the requirements of our Plans of Eating.  For example, we request custom-made salad dressings that are sugar-free.  We request fresh fruit rather than fruit cocktail.  We request fresh vegetables.  No butter, only olive oil.  And so forth.  Our meals also are full inclusive of beverages, tax and tip.

Meal time is an important time for fellowship, too.  Please consider sharing more meals with your fellows at the 2026 EXPECT A MIRACLE Convention.

Click here to order meal tickets.