Buffet Dinner Etiquette

xstaticnyc

Hi All - I'd like to get your opinion about buffet dinners. If I'm having one buffet station and 150 guests, how do you go about letting people get their food? Do you have the DJ announce tables 1-5, it's your turn to get the food or do you let people stand in line at their own leisure? My concern with the latter is that the lines will get too long. What have you done in the past that worked or do you have any suggestions? Thanks a lot!

rad3585

My DJ says he usually goes to each table and dismisses them to the buffet, instead of announcing it over the microphone. He says that way it doesn't interrupt conversations and doesn't seem so cafeteria-like.

waltzingmatilda13

Yeah, our DJ went around to each table to release them. He used that time to introduce himself and let people know if they had any requests to just ask.

kaesha

I like having someone go table to table to let them go.

On an additional note, if you only have one station, make sure people can go up both sides of it to faciliate speed.

Trishes

The wedding that I was at this past weekend had a server go to each table and tell them when they could get up to get the food. It worked really well.