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Discussion on: What could be better than pizza and beer? Why you need to provide more inclusive food at your tech event.

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Miquel Beltran 👨‍💻

I've been on both sides and I can say that is really hard to provide healthy/varied options when arranging food for events.

Sometimes you don't control it directly, but is the host company taking care, and even if you insist on the needs they can mess up.

Sometimes you are the one in charge, on top of arranging speakers, hosts, sponsors, swag... So calling a pizza place is the easiest option. Here in Berlin at least there are great vegan friendly pizzerias.

I understand perfectly this post and I share it 100%. I just would like to ask that if you are attending to a community event (and not a corporate one) give a hand to the community organizer to improve things rather than complaining. We got to know a fantastic "freelance cook" this way that prepares us amazing vegan food for events. Getting those kind of contacts is hard.