Dinner is included. There is a cash bar for drinks and beer. You sit at a round table, typically with other hunters and their families. You get a chance to meet with them, and maybe even find private land to hunt on or to learn about good public hunting land. There are raffles and auctions for a lot of guns and a lot of hunting related equipment and memorabilia. My wife and I usually go together every year. She is a non-hunter and enjoys it.