Buying Catering Supplies

I have been purchasing new catering supplies for a long time. I started my business with just myself and my sister. We put our own money into it at first and now it is paying for itself. We work really well together and we have agreed to reinvest our money into catering supplies each time we seem to reach a new level.

We make really great food. Our presentation on the first few jobs that we did needed a lot of improvement. One of the first investments in catering supplies was for beautiful stainless steel serving trays. I felt about two inches taller when I was using those trays the first time.

I keep trying to get my sister to agree to candelabras for our next investment in catering supplies. She keeps resisting me and is lobbying for elegant water pitchers. I think that I’d like to buy both of these things and maybe our budget for catering supplies will accommodate it. I’ll check where we stand after our next job.

I really want to have professional restaurant style catering supplies. I think that having a portable flambe trolley with brass trim would add so much pizzazz to our presentation. My sister is unsure that she wants that much pizzazz. I think that I would invest in new chafing dishes before I’d buy a flambe trolley.

My husband gave the business an investment into the catering supplies fund when we were first



starting out. We used his investment with some of our own and bought tools and accessories for the actual preparation of the food. We try to balance our purchases between what we use in preparation and what we use for presentation. I think that we have a pretty good balance right now.

Sometimes I catch myself thinking about all of the catering supplies we need and get a little overwhelmed. I try to remember that we started this as a business to make money, but also so that we would share something that we both really enjoy. The pure enjoyment of catering is still there whether I get to buy the new portable electric glass washer or not. I just catch myself thinking that I might enjoy it more if I had one and have to laugh.