The impact of Anthrocon on the City of Pittsburgh

ooooooo the pizza, the mushroom cheesey pizza, the tuna subs *drooooools* that's a con highlight for me every year, that sub shop is totally phenomenal!

also ate at the steel city diner for breakfast. it was pretty good..save for the odd tastes when some one before you ordered extra pepper or something, so your french toast comes out tasting like pepper grounds... but other then that, was pretty tasty ^.^

hehehe, fernando's + furries = love

Each dollar spent is counted multiple times -- you pay $5 to Fernando for a sandwich, he pays his workers, they buy groceries, etc. and it ripples throughout the local economy. There's some formula they use. Frankly I think it's a bit exaggerated if they base it on attendance and calculate it the same way as for business conventions, with people on expense accounts instead of spending their own money, but it works in our favor.

In a nutshell, it's not just the attendees—it's also the infrastructure necessary to feed and lodge 3,390 people for a 3-5 day event and all the ancillary costs associated with it. Everything from the Steel City Diner's t-shirts to renting the DLCC could be included in that number. It all adds up.