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Originally Posted by GatbTester
Tonight my wife and I had the misfortune to have food catered by the Havana Country Club brought to Colony Cottage. The trucked the food over and by the time our some two hundred guests were served every meal was ice cold and tasteless. The menu offered two choices: chicken or fish. Both were ice cold and lousy. Personally, my wife and I will never eat at Havana or have anything good to say about their food. The best I can conger up is this advice, if you are hungry stay away from Havana it is at best second or third class.
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I have a few questions for Gatb, being as I'm a pretty good party planner...
- 200 people??? OMG, how many times have you been to a banquet or wedding with that many people and you weren't happy with the service or the food quality by the time it got to you. For me, many, many times too many to count.
- Did you hire waiters also, or was it buffet?
- If buffet, what method were you planning to keep the food heated until all 200 people were served? Were they in hot trays with the burner underneath? Did you nuke them to warm them up upon their arrival from Havana CC to Colony? How many times did someone replace the hot trays with warm food while people were serving themselves?
- If you hired waiters, did they have the facilities to heat up the food while 200 guests were being served. Food doesn't stay hot by itself, it usually takes only 15 min for it to get cool enough to be not appetizing.
- I'm not sure I would serve fish to 200 guests in either manner, did you give them a choice or was it select at the table when the waiter arrived (as I have seen in other benefit lunches). That takes each waiter that much more time to bring the appropriate food to the table.
Folks giving huge parties like that is not like snapping your fingers and it gets done. In all fairness to the catering service, you need to help out also.... This is hard work and requires a great deal of planning and fore-thought. I've seen too many villagers love to sit back, do nothing and bad mouth the servers or restaurants.
Yes, I eat at Havana at least 3 times a week and never have had a bad meal. My party sometimes consist of from 5 to 10 people and the service has been excellent.
I'd personally like to hear more details from Gat before I pass judgment.