How much meat for 150

How do you plan on doing the meats? Sliced, chopped. .

I'd do around 80 lbs. of pork and around 75 lbs brisky raw. YMMV!

We always figure it as a pound of raw per head

150 people @ 1/4 pp = 37.5 lbs cooked = 75 lbs raw of each meat.

Assuming 6 oz. per serving of each meat, assuming there will be 1 serving of each meat per guest and, taking into account a 60% yield after the meat is cooked, I estimate:

56 lbs. of each meat cooked to feed your guests. This means you will need roughly 78 lbs. of each meat raw to achieve that outcome.

This is based on my Catering Worksheet I created to help me with events and I usually come out with a little extra meat but I'd rather err on the side of having a little too much as opposed to running out early and having a bunch of hawngry guests giving me the finger! lol!

Also, make sure you price things out correctly so that the gig is worth your while. Just for the meat you are looking at about $6.80 per person just to get a 20% profit margin which means you get to walk with about $550 after costs which is not bad for a company event and lots of word of mouth advertising!

I just did exactly what you are talking about. We had 150 people show up. I had 80 pounds of brisket, and 85 pounds of pulled pork and we had about 15 pounds of pulled pork to much, but I have to caviat that by saying we let people eat and then make an additional offering to take togo boxes home of the leftover meat.

Without the take home promotion, I bet we could have gotten away with 70 pounds of brisket and 60 pounds of pulled pork (raw numbers). Brisket was way more popular when I did it. If you want more detail on what we did, send me a PM.

hardy02ttu said:

We always figure it as a pound of raw per head

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Ditto

I would do 83 lbs of pork butts and 75 lbs of brisket flats which should yield about 1/2 lb of meat per person