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Hiring a caterer?
Tue, Aug 3, 2004, 8:38pm (Michael=A0Odom) Wrote:
We're having a shindig at our place the last Friday of the month. We're
expecting about 55-60 people. It's to be an open house for her
department (academic, that is) and mine, along with several guests from
Dallas. D just informed me that the function she's accepted
responsibility for is traditionally a dinner.
Now I like cooking. I'm pretty good at it, in fact. But a dinner for 60
people is beyond anything I've ever attempted. So she suggested having
the event catered.
One option is a barbecue man over in Delta County name of Murray. Murray
quote: "You get into barbecue, you get good, or you get out." He's well
regarded hereabouts for his catering. I've had his barbecue, and it's
quite good.
Another option is Zack, a man we know who ran a small truck stop out by
the interstate till recently. He's looking to move on and recently
interviewed with a hotel in Puerto Rico. But he's still here so far. He
does catering and is also well regarded by people whose taste I respect.
I know him better than I know Murray and like him. He's the one who gave
me advice before last spring's chili cook off where I got whupped. That
I was whupped so badly is no reflection on him. I liked his cooking at
the truck stop. He's Cajun, by the way, and has been in food service and
cooking professionally all his adult life.
The last option is that I cook it. I've been eyeing a new smoker pit at
a welding shop over by the county seat. It's a big un. I have a brisket
in the freezer and the market here in Cow Hill has them on sale right
now. With the new pit (ca. $350) I could smoke a couple of briskets, a
chicken or two, and some veggies (eggplant, e.g.) for them as don't eat
meat. I could make salads -- fruit, green, marinated grilled veg -- and
rice, bread, and taters.
Now what should I do? Cook or hire a cook? I'm asking for advice, but in
the end, I'll make my decision and I'll die by
it.-------------------------------------------------------------
response: If I was you better get a price quote fast, then make your
decision.
Around here the normal starting price per head for a catered affair is
$55.00 and that's coming to your home.
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