Redoing Poll- please vote again cost per GUEST for 7 brachos

amother

Dodgerblue

Mon, Oct 15 2018, 11:56 pm

How much does it cost to make your own simple but nice sheva brachos in brooklyn- including disposable food, plates, utensils etc per person? What did you include on your menu for that cost? If you keep cholov yisroel and make it dairy is it more expensive than fleishig? How much work is involved- how many hours do you have to put in if one person is doing everything? Are there any shortcuts? How do you have room to warm everything up the day of, if you're doing it at home?

amother

Tangerine

Tue, Oct 16 2018, 7:15 am

I made Sheva Brochos at home for about 50 people (20 kids, 30 adults). I ordered pizza but made fries, salad, vegetable soup and mac n cheese myself. Bought the paper goods and drinks. Cost me $250-300 in total, which is about $6 per person.

amother

Babyblue

Tue, Oct 16 2018, 2:19 pm

I don't know the total cost of the sheva brochos I made because others made it with me and for example, the person who made the chicken paid for the chicken.

Some expenses I had include:

Paper goods: $100
Rented tablecloths $100 (really helped give the room an elegant look)
Small floral centerpieces $40
Tables and chairs $100
Sushi Platter $70
Wine $30

amother

Dodgerblue

Tue, Oct 16 2018, 3:46 pm

amother wrote:

How many people did you have? It looks like you paid $450 before even food expenses. About how much was the food cost?

thunderstorm

Tue, Oct 16 2018, 3:49 pm

I copied my post from the original poll.

I did a Bar Mitzvah in my home. It came out between $25-$30 per person.
I served:
Deli Caesar salad with breadsticks
Vegetable turnovers with mushroom sauce
Minute steak, mashed potatoes with crispy onions and string bean/carrot bundles
Peach cobbler with vanilla ice cream
Drinks were: seltzer and sodas
I served chicken nuggets for the kids tables but they had everything else the adults had.
I borrowed a warmer from a shul, that allows you to warm multiple roaster pans at once .
I got tables and chairs from a gemach
Everything else was disposable. I made my own centerpieces
I had a very small sweet table and put things that people sent over including a big tefillin cake.
I cooked everything myself.
The steaks and turnovers were made weeks in advance and frozen.
The mashed potatoes were made two hours before the simcha
The salad was set up individually on each plate and dressing in schnapps cups on the side. This was on the table by each place when everyone walked in the door.
The string bean/carrot bundles were made earlier in the day and prepared into bundles.
The peach cobbler was also made a few weeks in advance and frozen.
Individual challah rolls were also homemade , made in advance and frozen.

My biggest mistake was not hiring waiters to plate and serve. I ended up doing that with DH and we missed out on a lot of the simcha because of it.

amother

Beige

Tue, Oct 16 2018, 3:51 pm

I'm thinking between 5-10.
Entree deli salad with individual cup dressing.
Soup butternut squash or zuchinni potato ( or make them thick and you can do both one on each side of bowl very pretty)
main stuffed chicken triangle squashed baby red potatoes, green beans