Message 17755 of 39188 in General Discussion

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iv,
If you can narrow down exactly what you want to serve then you can move on to 
the next step of how much to buy. So, so far you have most of your decisions 
made. Beer, wine and now all that is left is alcohol and mixers. 

Plastic is good for 350 guests. Just make sure it's "clear" plastic.

Sit down and decide on the 2 specialty drinks today. They need to be totally 
different. For example one would be creamy and chocolaty and the other light 
and fruity.  I would also name them after the bride and groom. I have ideas 
for you if you want. They won't really be able to be martini's like you say 
because as you stated, you won't have the proper glassware or 
straining/dumping in the sink capability. 

I would stick with vodka, gin, rum, and whiskey. The cool thing is that you 
can have a limited amount of alcohol and mixers to make a lot of different 
cocktails. For example, just from the alcohols and mixers that you mention a 
bartender can make a Screwdriver, Cape Cod, Madras, Spritzer, Cooler, and the 
typical soda based drinks. If you added, let's say, something as simple as 
sour mix to the collection then you bump it up to having a Whiskey Sour, 
Whiskey Stone Sour, Tom Collins, and Vodka Collins. If you add Peach Scnapps 
then you can have Sex on the Beach and a Woo Woo. If you add Rose's lime Juice 
you can have a Cosmopolitan, Gimlet, Vodka Gimlet. If you add grenadine then 
you can make Shirley Temples, Rum Punch, Vodka or Rum Sunrises. Add sweet and 
dry vermouth and you can have Martini's and Manhattens....you see where I'm 
going with this?

Above all else, once all this is decided then make sure that you make a nice 
large printed menu or two that can sit on the bar. People LOVE to have these 
choices and it will save the bartenders the headache of listing all the things 
that they can make. With 350 people they will have enough to do.

Lemme know what you decide,
Cheryl


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