How do you do the catering at your club or area event?

Clubs and events cater in three different ways:

1 A catering manager all year. HOD Speakers' Club in London did this for a while. So did Harrovians. In HOD the man who was president one year, SAA another year, organised all the food for club catering, and Club Officer Training events at the club. As a retired restaurant owner, he had a card for a wholesale catering outlet which could be used for big events. Milk was bought, and top up biscuits on a weekly basis as needed. This was for HOD club which provided sweet and savoury biscuits for evening meetings, sandwiches and or/ savouries such as dips for big inter club meetings which ran over lunch times (when visitors from afar had to leave home before lunch although we began after lunchtime for those who lived nearby.

2 A different caterer every week.

3 One person provides drinks, another favourite, another sweets or desserts.

4 Pot luck.
You might make a list and ask people to choose which item to bring. Or simply to say whether they will bring sweet or savoury to ensure you have a mixture.

Angela Lansbury ACG, CL>