Can you suggest a location?

[popiwoo]

I'm doing a fundraiser. I'd like to have around 50 guests. The geographical location is a rural community. We have one restaurant (excluding fast food) in our entire county that you have possibly ever heard of (part of a national chain).

I can't picture any restaurants willing to shut down on a weekend night for our fundraiser, and restaurants are shaped so weird, anyway. They're never one big dining room.

We have a civic center, but renting a room in it would be far out of our budget.

How would I go about approaching someone to use a school cafeteria?

Can you think of any other buildings that would accommodate a murder mystery dinner?

[2coolbaby]

I would suggest a hotel conference room. They are usually pretty reasonable. Another alternative is church spaces. They usually have some sort of area they are happy to rent out. I think the school cafeteria will be hard to get as there are insurance issues there.