[ SHOWGSD-L ] Victory Dinner
- From: "RivendellP" <rivendellp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <caggra@xxxxxxx>, <f.fasano@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <EJDegen@xxxxxxx>, <showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2005 10:26:59 -0800
We either need to have a truly nice dinner like the Columbus year and do it
right...OR...do what Lew said and just have a more informal dinner after the
show on Saturday. However, trying to portray an elegant Victory Dinner and
falling way short is no good.
Jeff
Paul opines...
Columbus was one of the best dinners ever. I even got an after dinner nap
thru Joe's speech.
I have over 20 years experience in food service in both management and food
service sales. IMO this past dinner was a disaster but it was the caterers
fault. I listened as Aaron, Nancy, and the others coordinated service with
the caterer. That's all they should have had to do.
Any caterer that is feeding 500 people and has only 1 sparsely supplied bar
won't be in business very long. The bartenders were inept at best. I
actually used my own corkscrew to open wine bottles for them. They ran out
of everything and it took 20 minutes to move 5' and that was with 3 of them
working.
They ran out of Stroganoff so I don't know if it was good or not. The
Chicken Marsala was so so and the salad was good. It took another 20 minutes
to go through the serving line. The caterer should have had someone
directing traffic and pointing to the fact their were 2 sides to the buffet
table but did not. 2 or 3 chaffing dishes with the entree's etc. could speed
things up, too. No water, wine, or coffee at the tables was another black
mark. And if people wanted to drink their own wine that was verboten but
there was no alternative...bad.
The menu's we are offered should be of high quality, easy to keep fresh and
warm, and just as easily replenished quickly. A smart floor manager for the
caterer should have known this but they were just standing around. I suggest
a letter be written to the arena explaining the good as well as the bad.
Such incompetence should not go unreported.
This is an area I could possibly assist the club in the future and if Nancy
is for it...I will. This menu should have been easy in every way and it was
not. I am sure the menu presented to the Board before the event was as good
as it should have been for us but was not. Pre-planning is only as good as
the effort of the caterer at the time of service.
Paul
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