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10-07-2012, 09:47 AM | #1 |
is Blowin Smoke!
Join Date: 10-16-08
Location: Virginia
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Buffet Line for 200
Just wondering how others do it, we usually just do a double sided buffet line but I am wondering if we should be setting up two double sided buffet tables to run guests through faster. How do you set them up?
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10-07-2012, 10:04 AM | #2 |
Babbling Farker
Join Date: 02-15-08
Location: Harrisburg, PA
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Just did a wedding reception with one double line (150 guests)
As long you have a method to retain hot food... no problem.
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10-07-2012, 05:36 PM | #3 |
somebody shut me the fark up.
Join Date: 05-03-07
Location: New Baltimore, Mi.
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200 should go fine thru a double sided table as long as your keeping it restocked.
That 2nd table requires quite a bit of extra cost. |
10-07-2012, 08:48 PM | #4 | |
somebody shut me the fark up.
Join Date: 07-30-11
Location: Pemberton, New Jersey
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Call them up by tables to keep control of line length on the first servings. This also allow you to have a pause for restocking without long lines in waiting. |
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10-07-2012, 11:22 PM | #5 |
On the road to being a farker
Join Date: 07-28-08
Location: Delphi, IN
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+2 on double line buffet with means to restock and table call. And that there is some cost to second table set up. I do offer something to ponder. I cook for Brandywine convention center and run 500+ parties. Have found it easier, for us, to run single line set ups. We can restock with out shuffling between people to pull a pan out of a chafer that drips hot water and loading in a full hot pan. Single long line its maintained opposite of the line of people out of thier way. Its a given that we have room and equipment for this though.
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