Buffet Line for 200

HBMTN · 10-07-2012, 09:47 AM

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?

BBQ Bandit · 10-07-2012, 10:04 AM

Just did a wedding reception with one double line (150 guests)
As long you have a method to retain hot food... no problem.

Bbq Bubba · 10-07-2012, 05:36 PM

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.

IamMadMan · 10-07-2012, 08:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Bbq Bubba

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.

^+1 I agree

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.

scaramoche · 10-07-2012, 11:22 PM

+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.

10-07-2012, 09:47 AM	#1
HBMTN is One Chatty Farker Join Date: 10-16-08 Location: Fairfield, Virginia Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	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?

10-07-2012, 10:04 AM	#2
BBQ Bandit Babbling Farker Join Date: 02-15-08 Location: Harrisburg, PA Downloads: 1 Uploads: 0	Just did a wedding reception with one double line (150 guests) As long you have a method to retain hot food... no problem. __________________ Bacon should be capitalized as a pronoun for pork! A BBQ Servant; cooking for the Troops, Churches, and Charity Operation BBQ Relief founding member Lang 84 Deluxe Kitchen known as "The Glamazon" Custom Klose Backyard Chef... of Snot, 22.5 WSM Former smokers; Lang 60 Mobile - The Damsel II, Lang 48 Patio - The Damsel, and Bubba Keg Grill - RIP

10-07-2012, 05:36 PM	#3
Bbq Bubba somebody shut me the fark up. Join Date: 05-03-07 Location: New Baltimore, Mi. Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	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, 11:22 PM	#5
scaramoche Found some matches. Join Date: 07-28-08 Location: Delphi, IN Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	+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.