Thursday, April 11, 2013

Food Truck Wedding Catering

So it's time to decide on the food for the wedding. There are so many different options and different price points when it comes to deciding on your caterer. It's a difficult decision when you are dealing with thousands of dollars. When we originally started talking about food we decided that we wanted something simple and easy. We felt inspired by all the pictures online we were seeing of the cute carnival themed weddings with the little mini hamburgers and hot dogs so we decided that was what we wanted to do. We talked about making them ourselves, but that was too time consuming and could go horribly wrong. Then we started looking around at restaurants, but the prices were out of our budget at it was surprising how many burger places or hot dog places don't do catering. The biggest shock was when we talked to a wedding caterer. We told him that what we wanted was simple small hamburgers and hot dogs with maybe some sides for about 100 people, he took about 2 weeks to get back to us with his quote. $5000!!!!! That comes out to $50 a person for hamburgers! So the clock was ticking at this point and we still needed to figure out what to do for food. Then in doing some research online I started seeing info on Food Trucks. These mobile eateries are becoming more and more popular everyday and even have their own reality shows! We found one in our area that specialized in specialty gourmet hot dogs, I was so happy that none of our other options worked out, we could not have been happier to find these guys!


Mobile hot dog eatery

They drove the truck to our venue, set up and started cooking. The food was hot and fresh for all of our guests, and people could order whatever they wanted, which was a great option, because with having vegetarians and gluten free eaters as some of our guests, they were able to accommodate all the special requests we had. They worked fast too! Only took them about half an hour to get through all 100 of our guests. People raved about how amazing the food was for weeks after the wedding. For driving out, cooking on site, and food for 100 people our total came out to around $1000. Way better than we could have done with a restaurant or a wedding caterer, and in our opinion better too. So if you are in the spot that we are in and are struggling to find the perfect food for your special day, look into a food truck, i promise you wont regret it.

1 comment:

  1. These mobile eateries are becoming more and more popular everyday and even have their own reality shows! We found one in our area that specialized in specialty gourmet hot dogs, I was so happy that none of our other car shipment

    ReplyDelete