Postcript (to Brisbane Biggest Party) — see previous story
Marilyn August 8th, 2006
Just imagine how easily an event like this can be undone, by something quite unforeseen … like birds.
The Bretts Wharf Events management team, that had been toiling for weeks to bring this event to reality, visited the empty Virgin plane hanger at Brisbane Airport early in the week. Everyone was amazed at the size of the hanger, calculated how many metres waiters would have to walk from the 6 kitchens to serve the guests, hoped to heck that they could deliver hot food to 3000 people on a cold Winter night.
Then one of the team looked at the hanger floor and saw … bird sh…t. They looked into the canope of the hanger and saw lots of birds. Their collective blood ran cold because they all knew that they would have to set up 300 tables the day before the event. Leaving the tables uncovered overnight could have resulted in distaster. You can imagine … 9000 glasses having to be re-washed, linen changed and all at the last moment. Fortunately pre-warned is re-armed and a plan was put into place.
As they say, there are many more stories in the big city … but you had to be there to know.
Don’t leaves us hanging from the ceiling like a bundh of birds in need to drop a well needed deposit right into the bottom of a wine glass, what did you do to stop the bird s…t???
Moreton Hire supplied all the tables/chairs etc in big plastic bags, so we split them and draped the tables in plastic. This hint was given to us by the Queensland Turf Club (Eagle Farm Racecourse) who have similar problems with our feathered friends.