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Fresh and hot breakfast buffet by G Texas Catering

Buffet catering is a very popular choice for events and gatherings, as it offers a wide variety of food options and allows guests to serve themselves. Properly organizing a successful buffet requires careful planning and attention to detail. Hiring a professional team to help you ensure all the little details are taken care of will help create a seamless experience for your guests. Here are some key dos and don’ts of buffet catering in Dallas for your next corporate event.

The Dos

Carefully craft and plan the menu. When planning for a buffet-style event, ensure that you have a variety of dishes that cater to different dietary needs and preferences. Having vegetarian and vegan options along with gluten-free is always a good practice to be mindful of when planning any event where there will be food.
Keep the food fresh and stored correctly in hot holds at your event. This is where hiring a team of professionals like G Texas is essential because we are trained in food safety and can guarantee proper food handling measures will always be set in place to protect the guests. Whether the event is indoors or outdoors, we ensure the food remains delicious and safe for everyone to enjoy.
Always have the dishes adequately labeled. This will help guests identify what is available and those with food allergies or dietary restrictions avoid certain dishes.

Buffet station by G Texas Catering — Well-labeled stations can help diners find appropriate selections quickly

The Don’ts

Choose menu items that hold up well and aren’t too messy. You don’t want to complicate the self-serving process of a buffet by choosing foods that are hard for guests to grab on their own. Finger foods or small appetizers are a great addition to buffets because they hold up well and are easy to pick up when you’re passing through the line.
Overcrowd the buffet table or place it in a busy area. When choosing where to place the buffet table, consider the guests and how convenient it will be for them to serve themselves. Allowing enough space for guests to move around and access each dish easily will also help keep things clean and cohesive.
Don’t have too small of a menu selection. When choosing buffet-style catering as an option, always having a wide variety of foods is essential to keep your guests satisfied. Nobody wants to be excited about a buffet only to find out there’s a small selection or they can’t eat what is there due to allergies or dietary restrictions.

A carefully curated menu is sure to impress at catered events

Buffet catering can be a great way to offer guests various food options at an event or gathering. By following these dos and don’ts, you can create a successful buffet catering experience that is memorable and enjoyable for everyone. Contact us today for help planning and flawlessly executing buffet catering for your next event.

Catering Companies for Rainy Weather: How To Set Your Event Up for Success

April 11, 2023April 11, 2023

Event/Services

Concert with a full stage inside a tent for rain

Rain happens, and naturally, Texas has very unpredictable weather! When planning your next outdoor catering event, you’ll want to consider how the weather could factor into it. Establishing a game plan with your catering and event team is important and will ensure everything is prepared should there be a surprise storm. Read on to learn about finding catering companies for rainy weather in Dallas!

Cattle Barrons Ball with Tent in Case of Rain catered in dallas texas — This tent kept event-goers dry at the Cattle Barons Ball in Dallas.

Venue Considerations

When choosing your event venue, there are many beautiful and practical options. That said, if you’re booking in the spring or fall, you need to plan for rain! There are indoor/outdoor venues with large covered patios or large indoor spaces, though many don’t provide both.

If your spring wedding is slated for outdoors, purposely choosing a venue with a built-in backup indoor space might save your wedding day! The same consideration goes for corporate events, as you want to ensure your guests, speakers, and any breakout events have covered options. If your venue has no backup indoor location, check that large tents are available to rent and/or that your events company can provide that for you.

Make sure to factor parking into your planning as well. Many venues, especially those at rural farms or other converted buildings, do not have paved parking, and a sudden downpour may result in muddy shoes and high heels that sink into the ground.

Caterer Offerings

Similar to the venue considerations, you’ll want to consider your food options. Some things to consider are if the food can hold up to the humidity often brought on by rainy weather and if the food can be transported easily to an indoor location should the weather change. You’ll also want to ask if the caterer has tents and coverings available if an indoor location isn’t available at your venue. The last thing you’d want is for your food to get soaked and essentially end your event early.

Hiring a full-service catering and events company like G Texas will ensure your event is successful rain or shine. Our skilled team of professionals helps make sure the venue is set for any adverse conditions and all food is securely stored so your guests can still have a fantastic experience regardless of rain. Contact us today to get started on your next outdoor catering event.

Conventions, Galas, and Festivals – Oh My!

October 21, 2022November 21, 2022

Event

Food Stations and Tray Passed Small Plates

Full-Service Catering for Grandiose Themed Conventions, Galas, and Festivals

When you have a multi-faceted and full-scale event, it’s important that all the elements of your event – from catering and bar services to the theme are all working together effortlessly. The goal is to execute the event seamlessly and exceed guest expectations in the process! Our team recently catered the IACP 2022 Annual Conference for over 7,000 police chiefs and their guests at Gilley’s Dallas! The theme was ‘A Texas Road Trip’ with lots of activities, entertainment, and menu items that gave these international guests a truly Texan experience! Planning the largest catered event in our company history was no easy task, but our team was up for the challenge and implemented creative solutions to ensure this Texas-sized event was executed perfectly!

Food Stations & Tray Passed Small Plates

Having a grand event includes an exquisite dining experience that allows all your guests to enjoy delicious cuisine, even when there are over 7,000 of them! Food stations are a great option when feeding a large crowd because they allow your guests to choose what they want to eat, whenever they’d like without waiting in long lines. In addition to stationed menus, we tray-passed small plates and hors d’oeuvres to guests while they mingled with other attendees and participated in activities during the event! The combination of food stations and tray passing allowed lines to stay short and for guests to have a carefree experience while they enjoy a variety of classic Texan fare!

Bar Catering

Part of creating a memorable event experience is ensuring the bar catering is top-notch! There is no doubt that what is served at the bar is important, but the presentation is what really sets your bar catering apart from the rest and will leave guests talking for weeks to come! This can be accomplished through decor or by incorporating the theme in what is served at the bar. A few of our favorite ways to incorporate themes are tastings (whiskey, craft beer, wine, tequila – the possibilities are endless), signature drinks and special garnishes. For large events like IACP it’s not only important that beverages look and taste great, but that they are easily accessible to guests at multiple bars/stations throughout the event venue.

Creating Experiences

A memorable catered event does not rely on food or bar services alone – a full and robust theme with all the bells and whistles that are executed alongside it will add the special touch it needs to elevate it from an event to an experience. G Texas creates the ambiance, the magic, and the essence of your event’s theme to give your guests a stunning experience. Imagine a western-themed party, complete with Brisket Sliders, Frito Pies, and guitars. What would take this event over the top and turn it into an experience?

Vaqueros on horseback, live longhorns, trick ropers, local and national country music performers, armadillo races, games and so much more are great examples of how our team worked with the event planners at Gilley’s Dallas to give the IACP the full Texas experience.

Creating memorable experiences for guests entails an enormous amount of planning. As a full-service caterer, our team is dedicated to curating a cohesive theme that is packed full of fun flavors, activities, and entertainment. We work on the event from beginning to end to ensure that we’re always procuring memorable experiences that go beyond the palette.

Our team at G Texas lives and breathes grandiose events and making them come alive with upscale catering and bar services along with full-scale themes into a genuinely memorable experience is what excites our team the most. Let us ideate your next convention, gala, or festival – Contact us today!

Party Planning with Perfect Partners

October 22, 2016August 21, 2018

Community

Party Planning

with Perfect Partners. Our clients come from a variety of different sources. A large number are professional meeting planners or event designers. Many others meet us at an event that they are attending as a guest and inquire about who has provided the catering and bar services. The largest number of all of our client’s come to us through our great venue partners.

Venues are obviously key in creating the perfect event. Great catering, entertainment and other event elements are important, but all of these are dependent on a venue team that understands what goes into building an event.
Our venue partners include upscale wedding facilities, elegant ballrooms, hotels, outdoor gardens, food truck yards, casual clubs, corporate meeting rooms and industrial warehouse spaces.

Choosing a Venue in DFW

When we get the opportunity to meet a group that has not selected a venue, we love helping them pick the perfect setting for their guests.

It all begins with the interview process. This is where we learn all about the purpose of the event and the vision that the planner has for their group.

Some of these questions include:

What is the expected attendance?
Is there a speaker or program planned?
Will all guests be seated or encouraged to mingle?
What entertainment and decor elements do they have in mind?
Is this a formal event or more of a casual party?
Are guests driving to the event or coming by motor coach?

These are just a few of the many questions that go into understanding a client’s vision. As the caterer, we take time to get to know each venue we work with. We understand the strengths of each facility based on our experiences with their staff and observing the events they have hosted. Some respond quickly to client requests for information, quotes and contracts and work closely with our team to address every need of the client. Others take a more “hands-off” approach and simply rent the venue and turn over the planning and management to us completely. Either is great as long as we understand the needs of the client and provide the proper support needed to get a great plan in place and execute every step of the event process.

Our venue partners are excited to offer information about our menus and the services we offer. We attend site visits and planning meetings knowing that communication is strong and we work together to direct the client in making the best choices for their event. Each space has it’s own unique personality and key elements that makes it perfect for a particular event. For one client, state of the art sound and lighting is critical, while for another it is a fun outdoor atmosphere that is important.

What we have learned is that aligning our selves with great partners is the key. Not just venues, but also other vendors, planners and designers who understand we will be doing this together for years to come. It works because we love to see the perfect event executed successfully and we know that with good partners this doesn’t have to be difficult.

Check out our venue partners and contact me or one of our sales team to get to know the perfect venue.

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The Dos and Don’ts of Buffet Catering in Dallas