Communion: Catering v restaurant

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I was considering hiring a venue and ordering catering versus booking a restaurant. There will be about 25 people in total.

A rough estimate is that a restaurant will be about €50 per person which works out at €1,250 and a possibility that the food will just be slapped up. I'd

Has anyone ever ordered catering for a communion or can suggest any venues/restaurants?

Big Bag of Chips

Where in the country are you? A hotel local does communion/confirmation menus for €20.. 3 course meal €10 for children and the food isn't slapped up. Also they do all the preparation and tidying up afterwards!

Ring around. I'd be very surprised if you were looking at €50pp

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Big Bag of Chips wrote: »

Where in the country are you? A hotel local does communion/confirmation menus for €20.. 3 course meal €10 for children and the food isn't slapped up. Also they do all the preparation and tidying up afterwards!

Ring around. I'd be very surprised if you were looking at €50pp

I'm in Dublin. Any suggestions for hotel venues?

Big Bag of Chips

Well that would all depend on what area you're in. If you're in Sandyford you're hardly likely to drive to Sutton for a hotel!

Google hotels in your locality. Ask what deal they do for communions.

Lisha

The advantage of paying the restaurant price (normally 30-50pp) is that it covers everything. No extra surprises unless you want them yourself. Some hotels/restaurants provide entertainment to like face painting, magician, to keep kids occupied. Usually it’s decorated appropriately. A cake is needed usually but you could factor this into the dessert.
Hotel/restaurant also includes cutlery/ware etc that you might need to provide separately depending on caterer.
If you get catering at home then you need to have your house ready and then the mammoth clean up after.
If st home or in caterer venue you may need to provide bouncy castle/entertainment.

Some people feel that the child has a better day at home, play bouncy castle with cousins etc. some people do the meal out and then have people back to house fir play, drinks etc. then sandwiches or some form of food is needed . (Madness in my view as you’ve paid restaurant prices and still have to get house ready fir guests and lay on some sort of buffet food)

What we did was take about 30 out for restaurant meal, came home ourselves, movie night and we following day set off for s night in hotel ourselves. Kids loved it and they got a Monday off school. So score.
I feel kids have s much better day/experience at home but husband is allergic to other kids rampaging through house. (His siblings wouldn’t be the best at supervising their kids so he finds it very stressful that a child would get hurt and we’d be blamed )

So it’s very individual and depends on what you want from the day.

_Brian

We did it all here ourselves, 30 guests.

All the help we had was someone to bring ice on the day and collect fresh bread rolls from local bakery.

Ham, turkey, salmon and chicken cooked the day before. Chicken curry overnight in slow cooker, prepped salads that morning, large pot of rice cooked when we returned from church, two dishes of oven chips on the timer in the oven when we were at the church.

Desert was a cake we had done by a local woman, fresh cream and ice cream.

We have two of the large pump flasks that were left with hot water so we could serve tea/coffee straight when we got home, gets everyone chatting and have time to cook rice and take covers of everything.

Food was self service.

Bit of prep work and it’s no bother.

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