[foodhackingbase] SHA 2017 - Pizza Oven Plan

[Timo Bingmann]

Hello food hackers,

we are three guys from Karlsruhe and Munich who have a crazy idea for
SHA: Make Pizza for Hackers! We’ve already gone back and forth on this
quite a bit and we think we have most things figured out quite well.

We would buy a cheap second-hand professional (huge) electric pizza
oven: there is one near us on eBay right now for 290€, 14kW, space for
8-12 pizzas [1]. Then buy some dough mixing equipment and rent some
tables and bring it all to SHA. At SHA, we would then try to find people
who would be willing to take shifts rolling out dough, putting
ingredients on the pizza and putting the pizza in the oven. Depending on
how many volunteers we find, we can prepare up to 40 large tray pizzas
(40x60) an hour (which feeds like 100 people per hour), possibly for
lunch as well as dinner. To be on the safe side legally, we would make
the system entirely donation-based (we calculated about 2 EUR per
real-person-portion-sized pizza) and donate all profit beyond our
expenses to the EFF or some other non-profit. We hope this would also
encourage people to volunteer for pizza baking.

The investment is low enough (around 1100€) that we would just pay it
out of our pocket and take the full financial risk (e.g. rain, no
volunteers, nobody wants our pizza) ourselves. There is also some more
stuff to organize (power, tables, transport, rank-and-file volunteer
recruitment), but we are confident that we can do that with just 3
people. The only thing we’re missing is a good physical home for our
operation and people willing to share the workload at the camp with us.

We don’t want to spend the full 5 days baking pizza, so we’re looking
for at least 3 more people to take a team-lead role for two or more
shifts. This would include possibly shopping for things that have run
out, shepherding volunteers and supervising dough making, pizza assembly
and baking and making sure that everything runs smoothly. We would
figure out details of our operation as a team on day 0 and 1 and after
that hopefully need only 1-2 supervisor people per shift who know what’s
going on, and 2 volunteers. We guess there should be two pizza-shifts:
around noon and dinner, both shifted backwards to match hacker-time
(e.g. 14-17 and 20-23+ o’clock, but that’s open to discussion).

We realize Foodhackingbase is more about hacking food than preparing
lots of pizza for hungry hackers, but maybe there are a few people who
would like to join us to make this crazy and fun idea a reality? If we
can find a couple people willing to help organize the pizza backing and
space in your village, maybe we can make this happen.

Cheers,
Lorenz, Timo, Leon

[1]
http://www.ebay.de/itm/253011660943?hash=item3ae8ab908f:g:RV4AAOSwsXFZIdqW