Price $24.00 per guest with a minimum guarantee of 100 guests.***Plus Service Charge 20%**
Buffet,Service charge,Sales tax $3,052.80
Appetizers Choice of two
Domestic cheese and cracker display
Fresh fruit display
Pita wedges with red pepper hummus
Spinach artichoke olive dip served with rye bread
Vegetable display with pesto dip
Dinner Buffet
Wheat, white dinner rolls and butter
Garden tossed salad served with choice of two dressings: Ranch, Cherry balsamic vinaigrette, Poppy seed, Cajun buttermilk, Italian, White French, Balsamic vinaigrette, 1000 Islands.
1-Vegetable
1-Potato
2-Entrees
Salad substitute $1.00
Caesar salad
Spinach salad with fresh strawberries, red onion, and caramelized walnuts
Traverse City salad mix greens dried cherries, walnuts, and blue cheese
Vegetable choice of 1
Baked squash
Broccoli parmesan
Brussels sprouts
Carrots with dill butter
Fiesta corn
Green beans amandine
Green bean casserole
Green beans with garlic olive oil
Maple glazed carrots.
Spinach with seasoning
Zucchini summer squash in basil butter
Vegetable substitute $2.00 per guest
Asparagus with lemon butter
Eggplant sweet pepper casserole
Sautéed asparagus, mushrooms, red onions, and yellow and red peppers
Potato choice of 1
Apple raisin stuffing
Baked beans
Baked potatoes
Baked redskins in herbs
Broccoli almond rice
Parsley boiled redskins.
Sage stuffing
Spinach pecan rice
Potatoes substitute $1.00 per guest.
Baked sweet potatoes.
Country mashed potatoes
Fried rice
Garlic mashed potatoes.
Sour cream and chive mashed potatoes
Yukon gold potatoes
Potatoes substitute $3.00 per guest.
Au-gratin potatoes
Dauphinoise potatoes
Risotto with cheese
Scalloped potatoes
Entrée choice of two
Entrée vegan
Vegan veggie rice
Rice bean casserole
Stuffed pepper rice and black bean $3.00 more per guest
Entrée vegetarian
Fettuccine alfredo
Linguine with vegetarian marinara sauce
Linguine in pesto sauce with roasted walnuts and sun-dried tomatoes
Macaroni and three cheese bake
Mostaccioli vegetarian
Mexican vegetarian casserole $3.00 more per guest
Chicken entrees are breast (Bone in chicken available on request)
BBQ chicken
Caribbean jerk chicken
Chicken supreme
Chicken with apple brandy sauce
Chicken with mushroom sauce
Citrus chicken
Honey mustard chicken
Italian marinated chicken
Lemon pepper chicken
Mesquite grilled chicken.
Tequila lime chicken
Teriyaki grilled chicken.
Beef stroganoff with egg noodles.
Beef tips in mushroom sauce with egg noodles.
Beef Mostaccioli
Italian meatballs with spaghetti
Roast beef with rich brown sauce
Swedish meatballs noodles with mushroom sauce
BBQ pork
Polish sausage with sauerkraut
Pork medallions with pan gravy
Sausage paella
Smoked ham with pineapple raisin glaze
Entrée substitute $2.00 per guest
Beef tips in mushroom sauce over garden rice (gluten and dairy free)
BBQ beef
Breaded chicken
Roast turkey
Seafood fettuccine
Seafood paella
Smoked chicken sun-dried tomato bow tie noodles with alfredo
Entrée substitute $3.00 per guest
Baked cod
Chicken marsala
Chicken and crab tetrazzini on angel hair pasta
Chicken and shrimp Dijon on angel hair pasta
Lasagna
Stuffed cabbage
Stuffed sole (veggie stuffing) with champagne sauce.
Stuffed chicken (veggie stuffing) with cheese chive sauce on a bed of rice
Stuffed chicken (Ham and cheese stuffing) supreme sauce on top served on bed of rice.
Stuffed Greek chicken on garlic noodles.
Entrée substitute priced per guest $5.00 per guest.
Grilled salmon with herb butter
Parmesan crusted whitefish.
Saint Louis style ribs
Salmon crusted with pesto and pecans.
Chef carved.
$ 8.00 Beef tenderloin
$ 12.00 Prime rib
All food selections are prepared from my own personal recipes. Feel free to contact me regarding ingredients or other questions about preparation (always willing to work with special diets)
Special diets and preparation are available, but every guest will have the exact same meal served buffet style. (We do not offer individual personnel meals with restrictions)
Included in pricing; paper dinner napkins, wood forks and knives, three compartment heavy gauge paper plates.
Palm leaf plates (replacement for paper plates for buffet) $3.00 per guest additional cost.
Chef’s Pride also provides staffing for restocking of the buffet waiting ½ hour from the last person to eat then depart…. No additional services are available with this menu due to the number of catering jobs at any given time.
The client is responsible for providing two eight-foot banquet tables for buffet.
Price $24.00 per guest with a minimum guarantee of 100 guests plus 20% service charge.
Price Quote with a minimum guarantee of 100 guests.
100 Guests at $24.00 $2,400.00
Service Charge 20% $480.00
Michigan sales tax 6% $172.80
Amount Proposed $3,052.80
Annual Food Event: Next scheduled date April 27, 2025 12:00 p.m.
*Please note we only provide bar tenders with service packages or china service*
If you are interested in securing your event a $600.00 Non-Refundable Deposit will be required in order to secure the date. Deposits are deducted off final billing.
Final guest count and payment in full are due 14 days prior to the event.
Sincerely,
Larry Burdek
President/Chef
Chef’s Pride Catering Inc.
Traverse City, Michigan
Phone (231) 943-9683
chefburdek@outlook.com
www.traversecitycatering.com