@joshsusser
I realise this is a broader point, but this specific example annoys me so much. People planning conference food seem to assume that you have about 75% meat eaters, 20% vegetarians, and 5% vegans. But generally you have almost no meat eaters, you have 70+% omnivores. Most of them will eat some of the vegetarian food, some will eat vegan things. Vegetarians will eat good vegan food.
If you aim for 60% vegetarian food, you still typically run out of vegetarian food first.
For company-internal meetings, asking for dietary preferences every catered meeting is awful. You’re telling all the Jews, Muslims, Jain, and so on to please stand up and identify their religion to participate. You should create an environment where they would feel comfortable acknowledging their faith, you shouldn’t create one where they routinely have to state it an others do not.
And I am still annoyed at SOSP this year having eight meat dishes and zero vegetarian options on the first day. ACM claims to have inclusivity principles, the conference organisers were obviously not informed.