How to Plan Catering When Your Venue Has Strict Rules

Venue catering restrictions can affect food format, load-in, chafers, alcohol, and cleanup. Use this checklist to plan venue-friendly catering.

Venue rules can turn a simple catering order into a planning puzzle. An event coordinator may have the guest count, agenda, and budget ready, only to learn that the venue does not allow chafing dishes, alcohol, open flames, outside staff, buffet setups, messy service stations, or long load-in windows. Those constraints do not have to […]