My son started high school this year, and joined the football team. I found out that the parents provide dinner to the boys before every Friday night game. Some parents just donate enough money to cover pizzas and some parents actually provide meals. I volunteered to do a meal like a good football mom...but I have no idea how to go about providing dinner for 60 people, and I only have a few weeks to figure it out!
To those of you in the catering or restaurant business, how do you determine how much food to make? We can't use the school facilities to actually prepare and cook the food, but we
can use it to heat up already cooked stuff. So I was thinking of just making spaghetti. It's easy, and since pasta itself is so cheap I would really only have to spend money on hamburger, Ragu, and garlic bread. I figured I could cook it at home and just mix the pasta and meat sauce ahead of time, and fill up a bunch of large aluminum serving pans. Those should be easy to transport to the school and get heated up.
I'm terrified of not making enough food, but I refuse to take the easy path and just shell out for pizza, since they have that A LOT. If anybody has any other ideas for easy and- the key here!-
cheap ideas to feed 60 players and staff, I will gladly listen to your suggestions