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What you need to set up a buffet
By admin | March 22, 2009
If you are having a party or buffet style, the number of dinnerware is a lot looser than a dinner, where you are planning every food item and serving it as per your plan. When having a buffet with a number of different foods and different types (like salad vs. meat vs. dessert) a good general guideline will be: if you have about three times as many plates as people, it usually works out fine. Some people will use 1 or 2 plates, and others will use 4, so it should average out. If you have a variety of sizes, use them all. Then your guests can choose what size plate or bowl fits which food best – that allows them to be more comfortable with your food and buffet.
Buffet style dinner for 8
- 8 dinner plates
- 8 luncheon plates
- 8 salad plates
- 8 pasta bowls or 8 rim soup bowls (use for salad or pasta or soup)
- 8 cooler glasses
- 8 mugs (if serving hot beverages)
- 1 sugar and creamer set (if needed for hot beverage)
- 1 salt and pepper set
- 4 – 6 serving bowls of assorted shapes and sizes – for salad, vegetables, soup, rolls, rolled up napkins, flatware
- 3 platters of assorted shapes and sizes – for meat, fish, seafood, bread
- 2 – 4 small bowls for condiments, spices, other little things like corn holders, toothpicks
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