Suppose you had $300.00 to spend on a sit-down dinner for 60 people, what would you make? Be creative please.

Question

Wow, a lot of cinicyzm here

Answer 1

$5 each should be easy.  Go to your local pizza place.  They probably have pizza, pasta and salad special.   Or Subway, Quizno's or a local deli.

If you plan on doing it yourself, spaghetti, corn-on-the-cob and a huge salad.  

Answer 2

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Answer 3

well why you dissin people  and ask  u ran a catering business so this should be second nature  come up with your own ideas  and stop tryin to snipe others .

Answer 4

How about a pasta based main dish such as spaghetti and meatballs, lettuce salad, and garlic bread.  Any money left , you could have a dip of sherbet or something cool for dessert. Could just put some browned ground beef in the spaghetti sauce instead of meat balls, probably could use less meat that way and easier to serve. Homemade oil and vinegar based dressing offering only one kind would probably cut costs.

Answer 5

why the h**l do you only have 300.00 dollars for 60 people. thats like $5 a person. try around $3000

Answer 6

$300 for 60 people?

I'm in the catering business and can't fathom $300 for 60 people.

( McDonald's would cost about that) ($10 per person).

I'll say a salad and a pasta dish and an inexpensive dessert.

Cheap meat dishes?

Anything you can make with Chuck.

Stew

Pot roast

( chopped meat for meatloaf) .

Ok, maybe

Meatloaf

Mashed Potatoes

Salad.

That's doable ( not exciting though).

Chicken dishes.

Beer batter Chicken

Mashed potato's

Gravy and corn or another veggie.

Your forgetting one thing here.

yes we are caterers but we don't work for nothing.

if I had to serve even chili and salad for that many people it would be 3x or more what the ingredients cost.

But your doing it yourself so that takes that factor out.

Yes,

like I said,

Chopped meat items

meatloaf, Salisbury steaks, meatballs and spaghetti

chicken dishes.

Alot of mashed potato's.

In other words, very simple items.

Rice dishes etc etc.

Answer 7

Egg Dumpling Soup

5 Cups ALL PURPOSE FLOUR

6 EGGS

1 CUP WATER

Enough chicken stock for soup about 70 cups

Mix your flour and eggs together first then add water a little at a time you want a thin consistency but not real thin you will pour of spoon making swirls will look like egg drop soup. So there’s about $10.00.

SALAD

COTTAGE CHEESE STUFFED TOMATOES WITH LEAF LETTUCE

Case of tomatoes

Cottage cheese

Line plates with leaf lettuce slice your tomatoes into eighths but not cutting all the way through tomato fan out and fill with cottage cheese. $60.00

ENTRÉE

Roasted chicken $ 120.00

Red new potatoes with parsley and butter (20 pounds) $20.00

Steamed Broccoli  $20.00

DESSERT

SHERBERT $25.00

Grand Total $255.00

Which leaves $35.00 for your spices and drinks.