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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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Culinary Finance 101: Food Costs for Restaurant Owners

Planning Pod

Many restaurant owners today are struggling to avoid rising food costs eating into profits and hindering their overall growth. At Planning Pod, we’ve noticed an uptick in business owners asking for tips on lowering food costs while maximizing profits. For reference, the industry average is between 25-35%.

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What are BEOs and Why do Event Pros need them?

Planning Pod

BEOs (sometimes referred to as run sheets) allow you to provide critical details that everyone involved in any event MUST have at their fingertips – whether they are a bartender, catering manager, security staff member, event planner, other vendor, or even your client. Food & Beverage packages. Invoice/proposal totals.

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Does your Event Food and Beverage Pass the Boring Test? It’s More than Just the Menu

EventFocus

We have all been to the corporate party – serving good, and sometimes great food via passing, stations or small plates. But what if we start to think about presenting food and beverage as an art form; serving food and beverage in a unique way that can create excitement, surprise, and take guests on a culinary journey?

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Do Not Be Seduced By Meeting Fads Or Conference Trends

Velvet Chainsaw

We are on the hunt for the next meeting, seating, session format, technology, and food and beverage fad. This is the exact time to be curious, to be rigorous, to be analytical and scientific says Professor Rob Cole referring to educational trends. We pursue fads, gimmicks and trends as the silver bullets of our conference woes.

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Are Bar Mitzvah, or Bat Mitzvah, Costs Getting out of Hand?

Master the Event

And “mitzvah” means commandment, which refers to the Commandments of the Torah for which a bar or bat must answer in and around the age of 13 (considered the age of commandment). Can include restaurant/venues, food and beverage, florist. What Is a Bar Mitzvah, or Bat Mitzvah?

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8 Clues that Your Meeting Hotel Is—or Isn’t—Financially Strong

MeetingsNet

It should be someone who can pick up on the overall condition of hotel, staffing levels, and food & beverage quality. Always ask for references. Look for trends, not one-off complaints. Have someone local do a site visit. They should also report on whether all outlets and services are open.

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