The last two catered parties I attended, caterer brought all of their own tables for the food. Not a terrible policy.
Evening_Tree1983
I never worked in a restaurant only years of catering but it’s just a different kind of wild… the craziest problem solving and you can’t just fire new food for 500 people
ChefGuru
No matter what you’re doing in the kitchen, if you don’t double check things, yourself, and just blindly trust that other people have done things correctly, you deserve whatever happens to you. This is *especially* true if you blindly trust customers when it’s anything that can screw you over. You’ve learned a valuable lesson, but luckily, I don’t see food all over the ground, so hopefully you didn’t lose / ruin any product.
DrNinnuxx
Been there.
Then I started making checklists, in the way pilots have pre-flight checklists.
idlefritz
This is why I always first cater wrap my customers.
LyndonBJumbo
Oh no! Did the tray of milk get spilled?
phluper
RIP
Either_Cockroach3627
Omg…. I never thought about this!!
Turbulent_Common_528
Are your customers the Dudley’s?
Vapechef
Big fan of bringing rubberized rugs
bleppyfoxtrot
Oh boy.
StorageInternal2430
Ouch!
KaNesDeath
Had this happen once. Hosts setup the buffet tables at a rental hall before we got there. Turned out one of the tables had a broken leg. Collapsing once we put the catered food on it. Fortunately only one item was lost.
MikePGS
TAY BLES
MSgtGunny
Also if you’re catering, The Restaurant Store sells foldable and stackable chafing dishes that look way better than the aluminum wire ones, and are only like $25-$45 a piece, coming with a solid water pan and a lid.
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Is that flour? Luckily it wasn’t prepared food
Roll for Intelligence
No problem here, you’ve got the ramp!
Cratering.
Every gig has to have one glitch. Yours wa a doozy.
Interested to hear if the customer took the fault on this one or wanted compensation
Did you check the BEO? Customer requested non-dairy sterno.
Does anyone have the number for Dominos?
Is that Sterno cans on the floor or just a bunch of spilled condensed milk?
You are lucky you were not two for two, I can already see that the other table also was not secured.
Oh no! This happened to me! With a wedding cake! I was delivering to a wedding and no one secured the legs and… splat!
Are you catering milk?
It doesn’t look like you lost much food?
Oh, Dude! You have all my empathy. This happed to me once. Now I double check every table, every time.
At least there doesn’t seem to be any actual food loss here. No sense crying over spilled milk
DON’T TALK ABOUT THE TABLES
Can’t spell rampage without “ramp”
[Sweep the leg.](https://youtu.be/4kr24G8jQpM?si=gonwXEzD6z2as5VU)
Fs in the chat my guy
A conversation piece that livened up the event.
Those tables are my livelihood!
The last two catered parties I attended, caterer brought all of their own tables for the food. Not a terrible policy.
I never worked in a restaurant only years of catering but it’s just a different kind of wild… the craziest problem solving and you can’t just fire new food for 500 people
No matter what you’re doing in the kitchen, if you don’t double check things, yourself, and just blindly trust that other people have done things correctly, you deserve whatever happens to you. This is *especially* true if you blindly trust customers when it’s anything that can screw you over. You’ve learned a valuable lesson, but luckily, I don’t see food all over the ground, so hopefully you didn’t lose / ruin any product.
Been there.
Then I started making checklists, in the way pilots have pre-flight checklists.
This is why I always first cater wrap my customers.
Oh no! Did the tray of milk get spilled?
RIP
Omg…. I never thought about this!!
Are your customers the Dudley’s?
Big fan of bringing rubberized rugs
Oh boy.
Ouch!
Had this happen once. Hosts setup the buffet tables at a rental hall before we got there. Turned out one of the tables had a broken leg. Collapsing once we put the catered food on it. Fortunately only one item was lost.
TAY BLES
Also if you’re catering, The Restaurant Store sells foldable and stackable chafing dishes that look way better than the aluminum wire ones, and are only like $25-$45 a piece, coming with a solid water pan and a lid.