Catering for 60-70

[Anonymous]

We're trying to keep it around $500. Most likely lunch, possibly dinner. Very low key farewell party, most likely outdoors in a pavilion type rental. Nothing fancy. DH wants Chick-fil-a, which I'm not against, but I do want to see what else is out there.

Thoughts/suggestions?

[Anonymous]

Sorry but $500 is not a realistic number to serve lunch for 70 people. That works out to a little over $7 a person. Snacks maybe, not lunch.

Minimum should be $10 a person. Even at this price, you may be better off doing platters from Costco. Add in costs for paper products, and drinks.

[Anonymous]

You could try District Taco or Chipotle for a taco bar.

[Anonymous]

Agree. $10 a person would be a good price. Taco bar.

[Anonymous]

You canot even et chick fil a for $7 a person. I think with this budget you are looking at hotdogs and chips.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You could try District Taco or Chipotle for a taco bar.

District taco catering bar is $195 for 15 people. She's looking at close to $800 for that before drinks.

[Anonymous]

I'm having a dinner for 10 catered w/ appetizers and it's $650. Unless you want pizza, $500 is not enough.

[Anonymous]

Costco- order their gigantic sandwich platters. There's a variety to please all palates, it's w/n your budget, and you can pick up other easy finger foods and dessert while there.

[Anonymous]

I priced Chick-fil-a and it was $456:
50 Chicken Sandwiches
Large Nugget tray with 2 sauces
Large fruit tray
2 Large Garden Salads with 30 dressings

That seems like enough food for that size group assuming it's not all adults.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I priced Chick-fil-a and it was $456:
50 Chicken Sandwiches
Large Nugget tray with 2 sauces
Large fruit tray
2 Large Garden Salads with 30 dressings

That seems like enough food for that size group assuming it's not all adults.

Where are the fries!?!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I priced Chick-fil-a and it was $456:
50 Chicken Sandwiches
Large Nugget tray with 2 sauces
Large fruit tray
2 Large Garden Salads with 30 dressings

That seems like enough food for that size group assuming it's not all adults.

Their large fruit tray serves 26. So basically you’d be serving people a chicken sandwich, a tiny scoop of fruit and some leaves? Not enough food.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I priced Chick-fil-a and it was $456:
50 Chicken Sandwiches
Large Nugget tray with 2 sauces
Large fruit tray
2 Large Garden Salads with 30 dressings

That seems like enough food for that size group assuming it's not all adults.

Where are the fries!?!

It's common knowledge that CFA doesn't offer fries for catering.

[Anonymous]

You could probably do pizza, soda, and costco cake for around that price (especially if you shopped around for the soda and bought it in 2-3L bottles rather than individual).

Or you could do make your own PBJs with bananas, apples, potato chips, and baby carrots on the side. You could still have soda and cake. Get everything at Costco.

I would personally be very happy with mac and cheese and some veggies (collards, green beans, cabbage) from Oohs and Aahs and I think you could do that within your budget but that might not be to everyone's liking. Maybe you could grill hot dogs and get a big thing of baked beans from costco?

Other than that, I think your options are cut your guest list, raise your budget, or don't offer a full meal. You could have ice cream or ices like https://carmensrockville.com/catering-pricing/

[Anonymous]

At that budget you’re going to have to cook the food yourself

[Anonymous]

I think the costco sandwich platters could work. They are pretty cheap. Add a couple fruit trays and chips. It will still cost a bit more.