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Event Planning Tips for Food and Beverage Functions

Master the Event

For most meeting planners, planning for a main event often involves food and beverage. And, as most meeting planners will also tell you, when planning an event with food and beverage you can chew up a large portion of your budget. Another aspect of the menu cost is the food menu itself.

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14 New Trends in the Event Planning Industry for 2024

Attendease

Let’s take a look at the top event trends that will shape 2024. Trend #1: Cross-Cultural Dishes & Menus Food and beverage selections at events are becoming more cross-cultural. Today’s event menus include more diversity instead of sticking to one culinary genre. It’s all about curating their eating experience.

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3 Event Planning Tips for Off-Site Venues

Master the Event

If you’re planning an event, do you keep it on-site (say the hotel ballroom, for example) or do you take a group off-site for a unique venue? That’s a common question that meeting planners address during the planning stages. The planner wants to ensure that each meeting that he or she plans is original.

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Choice Cuts for Food and Beverage Savings

MeetingsNet

And “if you’re getting them sponsored, make sure the price reflects the cost of the beverage.”. • You need to accommodate food allergies and preferences, so try to save costs simultaneously by incorporating dietary needs into the overall menu design—for example, by creating a gluten-free menu—to minimize personalized plates. •

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Successful Event Planning Tips That Will Save You Money

Master the Event

Event Planning Tips … It’s Not What You Spend, it’s What You Save As the story goes, it’s not what you make a company but rather what you save a company; an important point to remember when event planning. One of the more important event planning tips and the key is to always be prepared.

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25 Cocktail Party Ideas and Planning Tips

Social Tables

Although many professional party planners are skilled in planning private events, cocktail party hosts often choose to plan the event themselves; they design the menu, create the guest list, and decide which cocktail party ideas to use or lose. Food and drink are the stars of the show at any cocktail party.

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5 Tips & Tools for Event Planning & Management 

The Castle Group

Having the right tools and techniques is essential to consider and create contingency plans for unexpected disruptions. 5 Event Management Tips & Helpful Tools Here are five event management tips we use to execute successful events. As times change and events grow in scope, so will technology.