Home Tourney Costs

[Sir Folds A Lot]

Greetings all, this is my first thread, please bear with me if it is redundant.
I usually host games about twice a month with anywhere between 20 and 30 players. I go through some work pulling them off, cleaning, providing a lil snack and extra beer for those without any class (yeah that's how I feel about showing up empty handed and ready to drink), and a clean organized game. I pay my share as well, but in the end I feel a lttle cheated and used. I recently was invited to another game where the guy hosting charged a few bucks extra ($5) for snacks and drinks. I don't want to run into the legal problems of providing drinks etc, but I also hate doing all this with no reward unless I win. It used to be when someone won a football pool or something, the winner would tip the organizer for his work, but that too has died out and never transferred over to home poker tourneys.
I am interested if any of you do anything to recoup your losses.