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Goomba38 > wrote:


> Has anyone here provided the booze for their functions and how did you
> determine what to buy?? How much??

My suggestion would be to ask the caterer. She would probably know
better than anybody here. Preferences vary according to location.

Hopefully things will go better for you. My wife and I worked for the
US Army many years ago. My office had several parties. Some were at
the local (military) yacht club, a few hundred feet from where I worked.
My wife worked at the same (satellite) base. The person who organized
the parties found that we could provide the booze, but had to pay the
yacht club to pour it. I don't know if the bartenders wanted to get out
early, or what, but they poured very heavily. I talked to a woman there
who made three trips to the bar. She wanted a bourbon and mixer. The
bartender almost filled the large glass (8 oz?) with bourbon, and then a
splash of mixer. She couldn't drink it. She made a second trip,
requesting a weak drink. She got the same thing. On the third trip,
she requested just the mixer, no booze. She got it, and could drink it.
That was probably 12 oz of bourbon just abandoned and wasted. I watched
the bartenders, and that was what they did for every drink. Out of the
probably 100 people who were there, maybe two could walk home. The
others had to drive. That was pretty irresponsible.