Thoughts on a breakfast menu

I have a catering gig next weekend. Need to feed about 100. Game time was originally 2:30 and I was going with a standard offering of brisket and ribs. They changed the game time to 11:0am and want to start serving food at 8:00am.

Any thoughts on menu items?

Brisket and egg tacos?

SmokeOCD said:

Krispy Kreme burgers.

How would you do eggs for 100?

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That's one of my main issues. I'm taking my large offset smoker. It does have a burner set-up, but the majority of my cooking surface is for smoking.

Kyle

Well, we got through the event. Served about 150 between 8:00am and 10:00am. Here are the details.

1. Cooked 3 briskets the night before. Finished them around midnight and held in cambro until the morning.
2. Got up at 5:00am and had the pit on-site at 6:00am. Started the fire and put on about 125 chicken wings.
3. Started sausage links about 7:15am.
4. Started two big skillets of scrambled eggs around 7:30.
5. Food came out around 8:10.

We cooked 3 briskets, about 110 links of sausage, 250 egg, 240 tortillas, and about 125 big wings.

Some lessons learned:

Carve the briskets early. I found myself having to stop down and carve the next brisket as the line continued to form. I should have carved all three first thing and held them in smoker or cambro.

I needed about 4 people to serve the event. One guy was busy on eggs the entire 2 hours. I was working meat, and 2 folks were serving to control portions.

Chicken wings (and big ones) always take longer than I remember. Wings came out a bit late (about 8:30am) and I had to chase them the entire morning.

I served chopped brisket mixed in au jus with a little rub added in. This is the same technique I use on my pulled pork. It made for a pretty decent taco.

We warmed tortillas in packs of 20 in the warming rack of the pit. They take longer than you'd think, but we started early and didn't have much of an issue with keeping up with demand.

All in all, a pretty decent event. I look forward to my next. I have steaks for 120 on Nov. 8th. Giddy up.

Kyle