Each year the volunteer chairperson looks at each bar and evaluates how many volunteers make sense based on beer sales and type of crowd located around the bar. In many cases more volunteers are recruited each year than necessary because a lot of time 3 to 5 people do not show up for each shift. If we can get the number of no shows to be fewer, we will stop recruiting extra volunteers. Part of the reason it also feels like it is too many volunteers has to do with the space question above. We wish the bar widths could be bigger. The crowd is there for that many volunteers.