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How do you designate who gets which meal?

Jo&Lo83Jo&Lo83 member
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We are having a 2 meal choices - how do we dictate to staff as to who ordered what? Or do we just assume the guests should remember? We are doing assigned tables, but not assigned seating...so are there placecards we leave at the table with guests names and what they ordered? or how do people do that..?
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Re: How do you designate who gets which meal?

  • PoliceWife104PoliceWife104
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    edited December 2011

    I would suggest have placecards with color indicators for each meal choice. 

    You would have an escort card table with everyone's placecards, which would have their names on it & their table number.  You could have the whole card one color for one meal, another for the other meal, have a separate color backing for each meal type, a different color stamp, ribbon etc. for each meal choice.  Your options are pretty open, as to how to differentiae the two.

    Then, you would just inform the wait staff that orange = chicken, blue = fish, for example!  I didn't do this myself, as we're having a buffet, but maybe some other ladies would have some examples to show you!  = )

    HTH!!  = )

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  • EmilyW416EmilyW416 member
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    edited December 2011
    That I was gonna say! Just have color/stamp/ribbon ect. Saying what people ordered. I know me presonaly I forget so.... Id go with name cards saying what people ordered!
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  • aligrossaligross member
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    edited December 2011
    Ask your caterer what they want/expect - I know our's wanted certain things talk with them and see how they want it done.
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  • tpender13tpender13 member
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    edited December 2011
    We put stamps on our placecards. We found a cute stamp of a bride and groom dancing, and we did that in black ink for beef and red for chicken. Then for the handful of vegetarian or kiddie meals, H drew a smiling cartoon tomato or baby.
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  • SSaltzman87SSaltzman87 member
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    I'd ask your venue how they usually handle these things. Sometimes they prefer a colored sticker on each escort card to indicate what entree that guest ordered, or a completely different colored escort card altogether.
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  • MaggieandJakeMaggieandJake member
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    I gave our catering manager a color coded list by table of which guests ordered which menu choice.  I also color coded my escort cards by meal to match the list I gave them.  Our colors were royal blue and silver, so people who ordered steak had a blue escort card and people who ordered chicken had a silver card.
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  • martiac225martiac225
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    edited December 2011
    Our venue would not allow us to do different color cards to differentiate, so we used cute little stamps (cow, pig, carrot, fish) - they were super cute and I'm selling them if you're interested. Pics in planning bio :)
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