# Catering Venture A [[House Hanakotoba]] business effort to stand up a catering service, run in tandem with the [[Eagle's Tears]]' restaurant at Camp Maru. The main person involved on the House side is [[Rose Or’lient]] ("Auntie Rose"); the partner on the Eagle's Tears side is their commanding officer, Major [[Cranson]] ("Crash"). ## Overview Rather than building a standalone kitchen from scratch, the venture starts by placing Rose with the Eagle's Tears' existing restaurant. She works with Crash's staff, learns their menu and standards, and the two units use that relationship as the basis for shared catering work going forward. ## People - **[[Rose Or’lient]]** — Daisy's sister and Jasmine's aunt. A professional chef for years before the unit's trip out this way, she specialized in fresh seafood dishes. She is fluent in Swedish, Japanese, and the rarer Swedanese, which eases working on Nejiro. To broaden her range she has been taking basic sushi lessons and throwing herself into learning new cuisines — notably Polish and Greek dishes. - **Major [[Cranson]] ("Crash")** — Commanding officer of the [[Eagle's Tears]], based at Camp Maru, and owner of the unit's restaurant. He speaks passable but badly accented Japanese and has agreed to give Rose a trial run. ## Status Early / forming. Crash has agreed to a trial run: after a few weeks to confirm Rose meets the restaurant's standards as a cook, the two sides will work out a detailed plan. Rose is currently doing a try-out with the restaurant's staff. In the meantime she has been seeking taste-testers in the Valkyries' mess for the Polish and Greek dishes she is learning. The venture was announced to the unit in the October memo as one of House Hanakotoba's expansion efforts, alongside the Clan Starfall business items. ## Catering Demand There is existing interest in the Eagle's Tears restaurant for event catering, which this venture is positioned to support: - Meiyo has inquired about the restaurant catering dishes for the Okuizome at Saganami Castle, and again for the Presentation Banquet at the Governor's Palace — interested in both the restaurant's regular cuisine and traditional FWL dishes. - The Valkyries planned to source catering from Crash's place for a post-mission lunch with the OpFor units, making sure there were also "grunt treats" (burgers, fries, pizza — family-style BBQ fare). ## Sources - [[M102.1-S7 - VoH's October Memo]] — announcement of Rose working with the Eagle's Tears restaurant; call for taste-testers. - [[M101-S2 - Chrysanthemum joins a unit]] — Rose's catering try-out. - [[M107-S1 - VoH AAR]] — sourcing post-mission catering from Crash's place.