Catering in Melbourne
What Catering Can Do For You
In today’s society social events are a common feature. Whether they are personal or corporate a catering company can make the organisation and execution of the event easy, convenient and most of all time-saving.
Catering can be used for big or small events and can include not only food and beverages but professional staff as well, such as bartenders, waiters and waitresses. Whether it be a wedding, a christening, or even a team-building party, catering can provide you with a variety of products and services especially designed for that particular type of function. However, packages can always be tailored to suit your specific needs and requirements.
Catering companies typically are capable of servicing a breakfast, lunch or dinner, which may be either sit-down, buffet or fingerfood service.
Depending on your requirements you can pick up the food and drink yourself or have it delivered to the function venue with or without serving staff.
Catering services not only can assist you with food and beverages but may also handle other details of the event, such as flowers, rentals, venues or furniture.
For corporate functions in particular catering services can provide tea, coffee and packed lunches.
Use the internet to research particular catering companies and gain an understanding of the particular services they provide. A good starting point is to use a search engine with a search term such as “catering services”. Most catering companies will provide a list of costs and many even allow you to request a quote on-line.
Finding an on-line catering directory is also a good idea as it will allow you to search by postcode so that you can find catering services that are in your state and close by.
When planning a wedding hiring a catering company is an important step in the process. The catering service generally provides the food and beverages and plays a significant role in ensuring that the wedding day runs smoothly and to plan. There are some important things to keep in mind when looking for a catering company.
Sometimes the place where you are having your wedding reception offers a catering service. This means you will not need to worry about finding a suitable caterer. If the reception centre does not provide catering they may be able to suggest one to you. However, even if it is the reception centre that recommends the catering company to you, you should still do your homework.
So much of the smooth and efficient running of the wedding day rides on the ability of the catering company so you need to make sure that the catering company you choose is experienced, reliable, trustworthy and that they are capable of providing a quality product and service. Just because someone recommends a catering company to you doesn’t mean that they will necessarily be suitable for your particular wedding. Weddings can differ along so many different variables, such as size and number of guests, type of food service; etc that you can’t assume that a catering company that worked for one particular wedding will work for yours.
There are two main styles of catering; sit-down dinner and buffet.
Sit-down dinners require more service staff than buffets. You will also need more tables and chairs as generally the guests will all eat at the same time. Sit-down dinners usually provide a limited number of options to guests as to what food they will be served. In order to make things easier for you and your caterer it is a good idea to include menu options in the wedding invitations so that the guests may choose what they would prefer to eat.
A buffet style wedding is an option that often allows you to save money. This is because it usually requires less service staff as well as less tables and chairs as guests don’t have to all eat at the same time. It also provides guests with more alternatives in terms of food selection so that they may pick and choose what they would like to eat. An additional advantage of buffets is that it allows guests the option of going back for seconds.
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