Things To Know When Choosing Your Catering

‘Tis the season for great food and drink that brings people together! Cooking for the family and friends can take a toll and this is usually the case when family and friends gather to have a good time and the numbers increase.

Do not worry about catering for yourself on the day but this the pandemic still setting in, you can have food delivered or use a chef for hire.

While the season brings all sorts of special gifts and moments, it, unfortunately, doesn’t bring any extra time to those in charge of planning.

Rather than spending your precious time and energy developing a menu, gathering and preparing ingredients, and ensuring that all of your guests are treated with exceptional foods, let expert caterers take care of your holiday meals, so you can spend more time relaxing and celebrating.

Here are someof the benefitsd of hiring someone or a company even to do the catering and handle your holiday celebration.

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time With Celebrate

With the meal planning, prep and setup handled for you, it is possible to enjoy the festivities at your Christmas party without having to worry about the details. You can sit back and talk the night away with your guests as your catering team brings the meal to the tables and cleans up afterward. You do not need to spend the evening running back and forth from the kitchen, ensuring that all your guests have what they need to enjoy their meals. Your catering team will have all that handled, so you can socialize and make the most of your time together.

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Delicious Food at a fair

Price

When you hire the right caterers to handle your Christmas event, you get the promise of having delicious food to serve your family, guests, and ideally, you get it all for an affordable price. And since they are catering in your space - meaning your kitchen, they will use the freshest and the highest quality ingredients to ensure that you are your family is disappointed.

The Convenience

For those pressed for time and or stressed out by the pressure of being responsible for organizing ‘the best’ menu for a holiday dinner, hiring a catering company offers a convenient opportunity to eliminate this stressor. When you hire a catering service, you not only receive the relief and comfort of convenience, but you also get an experienced team of and or professional(s) who

Choosing you’re catering and menu can be one of the best tasks when it comes to christmas planning – especially since you get to taste some of your options! But between the excitement and the unknown, you can easily make some mistakes that will cause you to overpay.

Set Realistic Expectations for

your Budget

As with all aspects of Christmas, you want the catering to stay within the budget you’ve set. Sometimes because Christmas is a time of giving, you want to have excess food so that everyone would have their fill. Your caterer should be able to work with you to come up with a menu that pleases your taste buds and your budget. are committed to making your dinner a hit.

The Packaging When you hire professional caterers to take care of your holiday celebrations, they will work with you to tailor a catering package that works for you. For example, some persons like the traditional Jamaican Christmas menu of fruit cake, sorrel drink, rum, rice and peas with curry goat with or without pork, fish and chicken. Some may go for more unique meals for example: stuffed chicken, jerk chicken and or pork, roast fish etc.

Full Service Catering

A full-service catering -service includes a variety of personalized menu options to choose from, food preparation, and setting up the dining, professional staff to assist and after event clean up service.

If you are not sure what dishes will work best for

A buffet isn’t always

cheaper

This one might come as a surprise, as a lot of persons assume having a buffet service instead of food stations or seated service is a cheaper option. With a buffet, however, you’re almost guaranteed to have leftover food. Instead of making exactly the right number of meals and charging you only for the food they prepared and served, with a buffet style, caterers often cook too much food and welcome guests to seconds which can end up costing you money.

Have an option for

kids

If your menu consists of courses like shrimp scampi or any type of nuts or fish, kids probably won’t want to try it. Instead of your event, don’t sweat it. A cater for hire can help. As experienced caterers, the cater- can offer suggestions and the guarantee that we will do what we do best— prepare mouth-watering food for your celebration.

One of the best parts of the holidays is spending time with family and friends. If you’re in charge of the food, it can be hard to truly focus on these good parts. If this sounds like you, reserve the services of a catering company or chef for hire. And there are also companies that cater for small or large group’s people if eating out is an option. Remember that with the strain of the pandemic which is still in place, an early celebration would be perfect. It is ideal to get all festivities done early so that your family , close and or catering team can clean up and get home before in the beginning of the curfew. wasting your money on those dishes, offer kid’s options like mac and cheese, chicken tenders, or pizza. These options are cheaper than paying for a fancier dish and will satisfy the children (and their parents) at a Christmas Dinner.

Avoid foods that aren’t in Season Ordering side dishes or ingredients that aren’t in season can do some major damage to your budget. For example : Lobster Talk to your caterer to see what other options they recommend or similar tasting recipes.

Ask about and compare hidden fees All caterers are different, and what one business offers as a complimentary service may be an extra fee with another company. Low prices don’t always transfer to low bills. When a caterer has a really low price, be sure to ask questions because they may add extras like a 20% service charge, 18% gratuity, and charge separately for place settings and equipment.

Do your research and interview your caterers to choose the best option. Don’t just go by their Instagram pages or initial quote. You may choose to hire a more expensive caterer because you feel that they really understand your vision and layout or you fall in love with one of their dishes.

Banyan Catering is a fullservice catering company offering the comfort of local and the flair of international flavours. We cater small intimate events (showers, dinners, lymes) to larger and corporate events (parties, weddings, fundays, customer appreciation, luncheons, board meetings and coffee breaks. We also offer lunch service to companies where meals are pre-packaged and delivered.

We also offer Event Management to include music, decor, photography, videography, bar, rentals and of course the food!

We are also the creators of the award-winning line of Jamaican samosas – Jamosa. We also offer ready-to-eat pre-packaged vacuum sealed meals for your convenience.

We pride ourselves in providing superb food and are constantly looking for ways to improve upon our service. We look forward to catering your next event!

With so very little time this Christmas (early curfews and all) why not give yourself and your loved ones the gift of time. Let Banyan Catering prepare your ready to eat Christmas/holiday meal in box! All your holiday favourites and so much more available online www. banyancateringja.com.

Happy Holidays from Banyan Catering!