Party food ideas for 100 people

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Throwing a festival style party for my husbands 40th and trying to think of the most cost effective, yet easy and yummy way to feed the guests. Was thinking of hiring a hog roast company….. what other ideas do you have for me!! Thanks

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Depends how fancy you want it to be - just casual I would do rugby club style catering, burgers, sausages, pulled pork on a hot plate (veggie burgers and sausages too).
However in my experience this is very unsatisfying and I go home hungry.

If actually trying to do something special, I'd get a local Indian, Chinese or Thai restaurant to cater and eat the cost. If you're throwing a nice party for 100 people how are you not expecting it to cost more than £700?

Gosh calm down!

I provide multiple pairs of tongs.

I don’t have cheese puffs on my platter - and things don’t typically touch

Darling they were called smorgasbord in the 1970s. They went the same way as cheese and wine parties.

That will be next won't it? The return of cheese and wine, with TikToks of how to cut a full brie correctly.

Things definitely touch on the photos I’ve seen

I think you're likely looking at wedding catering scale here. There's a reason why they cost a few thousand quid to cater! I only had 60 at my wedding and food/drink was about £3000. To be honest, Christmas food and drinks for about 6 costs us several hundred £££. It's not just the food, it's the drinks too, you'd need kegs probably and cases of wine. It's expensive.

Realistically, I would go with a venue rather than at home. I think that probably your overall costs would be less in a nice function room with food provided and a bar for people to purchase their own drinks. Then you also address the capacity issues - crockery for 100, clean up for 100, chairs, the loo and loo roll. We had 16 family over for a BBQ last summer and honestly, it wasn't until they got here that I realised we don't have 16 chairs! Even if we, as we did, rounded up all the garden chairs and the kids plastic chairs and an old highchair for someone's toddler.

For 100 people in a garden where you think £7 per head is on the steep side frankly I'd forget that. What if its lashing rain? Will you hire a marquee or provide raincoats? Does everyone stand around, if so its finger food. Hard to eat and hold a drink at the same time. Sounds like a logistical nightmare to me and I'd run a mile from organising that in my own back garden. Imagine the mess afterwards. Nope and sorry for the negativity.

Id hire a room in a hotel, pub, church hall and then provide grub and drinks via the venue or order in. No question.

Go in person to your local Domino’s and ask about this - we did for a much smaller (but still large order) teenage party and got an amazing discount.