How to work out numbers for an evening buffet.. Help please.!

We are having the same food and got told to estimate for 80% of guests. So we will have 100 guests and cater for 80.

Our venue recommends catering for 80% of our total number of guests in the evening. i think it also depends on how many more people you are inviting to the evening - if you are having relatively large numbers of evening only guests you might want to cater for a bit more than 80% as they won't have had the big main meal.

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We have to cater for a minimum of 75%. The buffet is included in the price of the package and we're planning on having around 95 people, so that means we can have around 130 for the evening without having to pay any extra. I hope that makes sense ?

Thanks, so I will cater for 80% of the total amount of guests.?

We were told by our caterer to cater an evening buffet for 50% (150) of our total number of guests as 100 of them had just been given a 5 course meal a couple of hours before hand. We still had some left over at the end of the night.

HTH

Luv Victoria

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This is a good question as I had been wondering the same. We are having 60 all day guests including some children, and then a further 60/70 for the evening. We were thinking of doing a buffet for 80. Just going from personal experience - there's always loads left over at every wedding I have been to, and if I have been there for the sit down meal, I've always been so stuffed I've only wanted a few bits off the buffet.

We are also haveing bacon sandwiches on the evening for our buffet! Approx 80 in the day for the wedding breakfast and an extra 20-30 people on the night so will prob cater for 90. Hope this helps

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Oooo im glad you're doing the same as me guys, i have about 100 and catering for 80 in the evening too,wooo!