We cooked for 40 Tuesday
Menu-
Ham
Smoked turkey
broccoli salad
real mashed potato
gravy
dressing
green beans
cut corn
deviled eggs
coconut cream pie
lemon meringue pie
pecan pie
Soft drinks, and iced tea, self served.
All turned out great. 18 a head.
Thursday we cooked for what we thought was going to be 75 which turned out to be more like 90, but we only got paid for 80. We got 13 a head but I feel it should have been closer to 16.
Menu-
Mini burgers
hotdogs
mini pulled pork sandwiches
grilled chicken
broccoli salad
potato salad
bbq beans
mac n cheese
cut corn
coconut cream pie
pecan pie
lemon meringue pie
Soft drinks and iced tea, self served
We feel that it was a mistake to have that many meats with burgers and pp sandwiches because we couldnt figure how many would go for burger or go for pp. I came up with the idea to make smaller versions of both and that worked out like a champ. The PP was the best we ever made too. I am real happy with that. It was better than anything we served to be exact. They wiped us out. Let me tell you, these guys were eating machines.
The grilled chicken was a pain. Trying to grill burgers and chicken, in the rain, for that many people can be a biotch. Both myself and my brother were ready to quit at one point. Stressed out, wet, and miserable to say the least we managed to survive. Most of the stress was gone as soon as the food was laid out. The guys we cooked for instantly praised our food which made it all worth while for us.
I cant see getting rich doing this so to speak with the high cost of everything plus we try to make most of our food instead of buying prepared which you all know is expensive and time consuming. We learned yesterday that cutting corners has to be done to compete with the competition out there if we want to actually make a living with this "hobby". This isnt easy work either. I thought it would be but it is not. Organization is key, and so far we are not even close. Cooking great food is only a fraction of this. That has been said before but I have now lived it, believe it, and understand it.
Thanks for listening and please do not think that I hate my hobby. I just got introduced to the real world of cooking yesterday.
Menu-
Ham
Smoked turkey
broccoli salad
real mashed potato
gravy
dressing
green beans
cut corn
deviled eggs
coconut cream pie
lemon meringue pie
pecan pie
Soft drinks, and iced tea, self served.
All turned out great. 18 a head.
Thursday we cooked for what we thought was going to be 75 which turned out to be more like 90, but we only got paid for 80. We got 13 a head but I feel it should have been closer to 16.
Menu-
Mini burgers
hotdogs
mini pulled pork sandwiches
grilled chicken
broccoli salad
potato salad
bbq beans
mac n cheese
cut corn
coconut cream pie
pecan pie
lemon meringue pie
Soft drinks and iced tea, self served
We feel that it was a mistake to have that many meats with burgers and pp sandwiches because we couldnt figure how many would go for burger or go for pp. I came up with the idea to make smaller versions of both and that worked out like a champ. The PP was the best we ever made too. I am real happy with that. It was better than anything we served to be exact. They wiped us out. Let me tell you, these guys were eating machines.
The grilled chicken was a pain. Trying to grill burgers and chicken, in the rain, for that many people can be a biotch. Both myself and my brother were ready to quit at one point. Stressed out, wet, and miserable to say the least we managed to survive. Most of the stress was gone as soon as the food was laid out. The guys we cooked for instantly praised our food which made it all worth while for us.
I cant see getting rich doing this so to speak with the high cost of everything plus we try to make most of our food instead of buying prepared which you all know is expensive and time consuming. We learned yesterday that cutting corners has to be done to compete with the competition out there if we want to actually make a living with this "hobby". This isnt easy work either. I thought it would be but it is not. Organization is key, and so far we are not even close. Cooking great food is only a fraction of this. That has been said before but I have now lived it, believe it, and understand it.
Thanks for listening and please do not think that I hate my hobby. I just got introduced to the real world of cooking yesterday.