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Planning Ahead? Here Are The Con Suite Menus!

The Con Suite is WisCon’s hospitality suite. Its mission is to provide good, nourishing food in order to improve convention accessibility for everyone attending. When we talk accessibility in relation to the Con Suite, we mean several things. The Con Suite improves financial access, helping attendees who are stretching their dollars. It improves mental and emotional accessibility, allowing attendees who just want to take food somewhere quiet to do so with minimal interactions in the process if they need that. It improves physical access, allowing attendees to get meals without walking additional distances. And the Con Suite improves dietary access by providing a range of foods with gluten-free, dairy-free, vegan, and vegetarian options, as well as posting information about the presence of common allergens and other ingredients.

We do all of this with volunteers, and we need your help! See what volunteer shifts are available here: https://signup.com/go/LCshkGa If you have any questions about volunteering in the Con Suite, please email us at consuite@wiscon.net.

On to the menus!

First up: The Grab & Go Space! This one is easy because it doesn’t really have a menu. There will be portions of many of our side dishes available there on ice throughout the convention, and this is also where any leftover donuts and bagels will go after breakfast each day, once we have individually wrapped them. The Grab & Go is also where you will find coffee, tea, sodas of many descriptions, a variety of chips, cookies, granola bars, string cheese, and more. The Grab & Go opens Friday at noon and every morning thereafter at 8am, and it closes at midnight Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and then at 5pm on Monday.

And the main event: The Con Suite Commissary Space! The Commissary is only open and serving at mealtimes, but is a seating-only space 9pm-1am Friday and Saturday, and 10pm-1am Sunday.

Friday Dinner 5:30pm–7:30pm

  • Shredded BBQ Chicken, served as sandwiches or on rice (GF*)
  • BBQ Tofu, served as sandwiches or on rice (V, Veg, GF*)
  • Various side dishes (see list at end of menu)

Saturday Breakfast 8am–10am

  • A selection of bagels from Gotham Bagels; toast; gluten-free bagels and toast; a variety of topping choices (varies, but includes GF)
  • A selection of donuts from Greenbush Bakery; gluten-free donuts (varies, but includes GF)
  • Hard-boiled eggs (GF)
  • Bananas and other fruit (V, Veg, GF)
  • Yogurt (Veg, GF)

Saturday Lunch 11:30am–1:30pm

  • A selection of meat, cheese, condiments, and bread for sandwiches (GF*)
  • Chickpea salad sandwiches (V, Veg, GF*)
  • Chips (varies)
  • Carrots and celery with a variety of dipping choices (varies)

Saturday Dinner 5:30pm–7:30pm

  • Beef chili; cheese and sour cream available (GF)
  • Black bean and quinoa chili (V, Veg, GF)
  • Rice
  • Various side dishes (see list at end of menu)

Sunday Brunch 8am–11am

  • A selection of bagels from Gotham Bagels; toast; gluten-free bagels and toast; a variety of topping choices (varies, but includes GF)
  • A selection of donuts from Greenbush Bakery; gluten-free donuts (varies, but includes GF)
  • Hard-boiled eggs (GF)
  • Bananas and other fruit (V, Veg, GF)
  • Yogurt (Veg, GF)

Sunday Supper 3pm–5pm

  • A selection of pizzas from Ian’s Pizza (varies, but includes GF)
  • Various side dishes (see list at end of menu)

Monday Breakfast 8am–11am

  • A selection of bagels from Gotham Bagels; toast; gluten-free bagels and toast; a variety of topping choices (varies, but includes GF)
  • A selection of donuts from Greenbush Bakery; gluten-free donuts (varies, but includes GF)
  • Hard-boiled eggs (GF)
  • Bananas and other fruit (V, Veg, GF)
  • Yogurt (Veg, GF)

Side dishes are from Willy Street Co-op; a selection will be available at each dinner, as well as between meals in the Grab & Go room. They include: curried chickpea & spinach salad (V, GF), two bean quinoa (V, GF), emerald kale salad (V, GF), corn & black bean salad (V, GF), sun dried tomato pesto pasta (Veg), cole slaw (Veg), cheezy pasta (V), and chicken parmesan pasta salad.

WisCon will endeavor to keep the commissary nut-free. WisCon will endeavor to prevent any cross-contamination. If you have concerns about potential allergens, please contact a member of the Con Suite staff. A list of ingredients highlighting common allergens will be available in the commissary.

GF = gluten-free
GF* = gluten-free if served with gluten-free bread or rice
V = vegan
Veg = vegetarian

Still have questions? Shoot us an email at consuite@wiscon.net.

Sign up for Con Suite Shifts Online!

WisCon is fast approaching, and we’re all fitting our schedules together trying to be twelve places at once, crying the familiar cry: “there are too many great panels!”  But maybe you’ve got a suspicious gap in your schedule, or maybe you just need some downtime after digesting the great panel you just went to. Wouldn’t it be great if you could schedule in some time to help out at the con as easily as you can schedule which panels you want to see?

Okay, maybe that’s a bit much of a lead up.  But we’re happy to announce that you can now schedule your volunteer shifts in Con Suite ahead of the con – no trying to remember while you’re there, no wondering if anyone needs volunteers at the times you’re free.

You can now view all the open Con Suite shifts and pick the time and the role that you’d prefer online. Want to count people so we have accurate numbers for next year? You can see when we need a Counter.  Want to help serve food? Check out the Food Service shifts.  Are you an introvert that wants to help but doesn’t want to handle the “hospitality” part of the hospitality suite? Help out with Food Prep, being an Annex Attendant, or Clean Up Crew.  Want to spend the whole con enjoying panels and parties, but still want to help out? Food Prep and Tear Down volunteers will be working Friday morning and Monday afternoon. And all shifts list the physical abilities required of that shift.

Click here to sign up!

To sign up, all you need to do is enter your name (this does not have to be your real name), and an email.  If you have any problems getting signed up, contact consuite@wiscon.sf3.org and we can sign you up on your behalf.