Open Air Business March 2017

FUNCTION VENUES
Bars and
Catering
Advice
Function venue suppliers offer
solutions for wining and
dining guests
Victoria Gough, director
Food Genie
01386 834693
www.food-genie.co.uk
How can your service benefit function
venue owners?
We offer a broad range of catering, but
predominantly focus on providing a
fantastic mobile fish and chip van service.
Our whole purpose is to accommodate
clients’ catering requirements and
provide fresh and innovative menus and
suggestions based on traditional concepts.
We also have a collection of unique and
characteristic catering vans from which we
offer a selection of delicious menus such as
fish and chips, curries, chilli, pie and mash,
plus much more.
What advice could you offer a function
venue owner on catering?
We highly recommend selecting catering
and bar suppliers that have a flexible
work ethic. They should be committed to
meeting the clients’ needs when faced with
all the variables that inevitably occur with
each individual event.
What is the USP of your service?
We have a flair for identifying what a client’s
style and requirements are, which enables
us to create the ideal service to suit them.
Our fleet of unique catering vans also
means we can deliver a vehicle to suit their
chosen theme.
We have a combined cheffing experience
of over 25 years, enabling us to include a
lot of delicious homemade products, which
would normally be factory produced, on
our menus such as our pies, steak and
kidney puddings, fish cakes, burgers,
kebabs and much more.
What options do you offer for small,
medium and large budgets?
We cater for all budgets, being able to scale
menus right down for small budgets, for
example mini-portions in cones. We also
offer an option for the client to pay a hire
fee to have one of our catering vans at their
event and then for the guests to buy their
food from us.
For larger budgets, we can increase the
menu options and add personalised extras
such as napkins of a specific colour etc. We
also have the option of additional catering
vans for a faster service, or to serve using
waiting staff and the full table service. We
can also add additional courses i.e. drinks
reception canapes, starters and desserts.
Our service can be as informal or formal as
required.
Please mention a function you have
catered for
We have regularly catered for Springhill
Barn, a wedding venue in Lower Moor
Pershore. Here we have catered for clients’
weddings with various menus including fish
and chips either served from the chip van or
plated to the table.
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