Tough call, I thought you did a great job with the cycle of meets and different locations. I can't really complain as I can't normally make it out during the week due to traveling for work and not getting home til late thurs on flights normally.
It is hard in this day and age to get new members to come out, especially the younger crowd to show up to a dinner meet and just sit down and start talking to people. I think a nice focus would be on actual car show/meet type areas where people can show up and just walk over and casually stroll through.
Only issue is you also pull the riff raff in like what happened at Lukes over the years.
All the people saying IN then bailing is only going to increase, though nice weather will change that and EVERYONE will be itching to go out with their rides
Bottom line, you can't please everyone, I just hope whatever is decided helps incorporate new members or continues to get our group out there as a great place to hangout and the people from the forum are a good set of long time friends, not just a bunch of vaping teenagers in a parking lot