Wedding Stories | Jessica + Ian | Week 1: Getting Started | Orlando Science Center

Planning a wedding is one of the most rewarding, exciting, stressful, creative and sometimes confusing personal projects you may ever be responsible for. With one simple “yes!” you are transformed from an average Jane (or Joe) into a full-time event planner! There are countless resources online and in print to help you navigate the wedding landscape, but the most valuable source of guidance will always be from those with great experience – seasoned wedding pros!

The Puff ‘n Stuff Catering wedding team has provided money, sanity and time-saving solutions to brides and grooms for over 30 years, and today we’re starting a new blog series that shows you just how we do it. The first step in our catering process is always a complimentary, private consultation with one of our Special Event Planners to discover your goals, tastes, style and venue. From there, we’ll create a personalized menu and event plan that suits your dreams and your budget!

For the next three weeks, we’ll join Jessica Curry and Ian Garlic as they plan their reception from start to finish with Puff ‘n Stuff Catering. Today, they are meeting with Special Event Planner Heidi Brice to discuss their vision, and taking a road trip to their venue, The Orlando Science Center!

Special thanks to our friends at VHVIDEO.COM for capturing the magic!

Join us next week to see the one of the tastiest steps in Jessica and Ian’s planning – the tasting!

Corporate Cost Effective Lunch Options

Needing lunch catered for you while under a tight budget?

Puff ‘n Stuff has the solution for all of your corporate catering needs. Need to provide meals for your staff that will agree with varying dietary needs? Puff ‘n Stuff can provide solutions for a great corporate lunch for your entire staff. They have seasonal menus to try and can also provide daily lunch specials at $10.95 a person or will work with you to meet your specific budget. Puff ‘n Stuff Catering does corporate lunch catering in West Orlando, throughout Central Florida and the Tampa Bay Area.

Large Corporate Event Catering

What size corporate events does Puff ‘n Stuff cater? We can go as small as just a couple of people, if that is what the client wants.  We can also go as large as 6,000-7,000 people. We did a grand opening to Target, it was a back to school for UCF.  What we did is that we partnered with Target, while they provided the food, we prepared it on-site. It was a nice spin on what we normally do, but we can cater for corporate events as large as the client would like.

8 Last-Minute Ideas for Holiday Parties in Orlando | Puff ‘n Stuff Catering | BizBash Magazine

If you’re looking for last-minute inspiration to plan your holiday party, check out this quick article at BizBash. Whether you’re planning a corporate holiday party or a private social soiree, Puff ‘n Stuff Catering can help you pull all of the details together quickly, easily and on budget…and make you look like a pro!

“As we enter the thick of the corporate holiday party season, here are some ideas and resources to keep a group entertained, fed, and rewarded.

6. Puff ‘n Stuff Catering and Events is offering a twist on classic comfort food—lobster mac-and-cheese. The dish is made with Maine lobster, crisp prosciutto, Grana Padano cheese, and a pinch of nutmeg, served on a cheddar cheese tuile. Servings range from $6 to $20 per person, depending on portion size and how it is presented (chef-attended station, butler-passed, part of a plated meal).”

Click here to read the full article!

Selecting Food, Caterer, and a Venue with Puff ‘n Stuff | Corporate Events | Puff ‘n Stuff Catering

I think with Corporate Executives, I give them what is going to work well with their clients, especially if they don’t know the group of people that are coming in.  They don’t know if they have dietary restrictions, etc.

What I try to do is say this menu works really well and ease them into it.  If there are dietary restrictions we can talk about menus that work well for them.  I can also do site visits and walk them through how the event is going to go, to help ease their mind. I think that gives them a sense of calm.  Once we do a lunch delivery, and we bring repeat business,  we have it, they feel comfortable with us.  If they set  a new location, we go and walk it to make sure we understand the location.

We are flexible, if you don’t have tables and access to your meeting requires going up five flights of stairs, we will accommodate your request to make your event the best possible.

A Delicious Welcome | Catering to a Gala Affair in Central Florida

We recently assisted a well known hotel client to produce the “welcome” course for a 2,100 person gala dinner. After countless hours of detailed preparation we were able to answer the question: what happens when you combine…

• 6,300 precision cut pasta sheets with the word “Welcome” written in 3 languages stamped in squid ink

• 1/4 mile of vegetable mousse in 3 flavors (pea and mint, cauliflower and anise, sweet potato and cumin)

• 25 gallons of roasted red pepper coulis

• 10,000 grape tomatoes carefully scored, roasted, peeled and dehydrated to look like an open flower

• 8,400 fava beans husked, peeled and split

• 8,400 purple cauliflower florets

• 2,100 elephant garlic chips

• 2,100 basil crisps

• 2,100 slivered euro cucumbers

• 4,200 red endive leaves

• 10 cases of hand-cut eggplant skin thread

• 20 gallons of muscatel vinaigrette

• 24 cases of frisee

• and a tremendous 900 man hours?

The answer is a beautifully plated dish of Deconstructed Saffron Pasta Salad with Autumn Vegetables. As always, we tip our hats to the team of chefs who gracefully executed this event!

At Puff ‘n Stuff Catering & Events, we happily provide the same level of enthusiasm and attention to detail for each event we produce. From 20 person lunches, to 2,000 person galas, our mission is to passionately perfect your event!

Corporate Lunches In Orlando | Corporate Catering For Multi Day Events | Puff ‘n Stuff Catering

“With a lot of the clients if they have corporate business meeting coming in and they need lunch everyday from a Friday, Saturday, Sunday we can do that.  We can do breakfast, lunch, and afternoon snacks.  A lot of times they don’t have time for their clients to go out and have a lunch break. It’s just easier for us to go in there, it keeps them there, you don’t have to worry about them getting back. So that makes it that much easier for the client, you can keep them all in one space.  We can do anything that’s small.  I’m doing something this week, they wanted something nice and are doing VIPs for six people.  So nothing is too small for us, whatever your needs are, we will try to accommodate you for any kind of event.”

Finding a lunch caterer in Orlando | Central Florida Catering

Finding a lunch caterer in Orlando can be a difficult process.  In a city so big and diverse, just finding the perfect caterer for your wedding or corporate lunch will be hard.  One thing that typically seems to work well is to look at customer reviews.
“We knew the food was going to be amazing, because it always is with Puff N’ Stuff…” Roy + Tina = Married
“Wow, So cool Didn’t Know you were on Facebook. 5 years ago I had you guys Catering My Wedding at the Oak Tub Inn. I loved everything was great ♥”
Thanks… Sarah L.
“Nice mention today in The Florida Bride’s Blog “Orlando Wedding ~ Jess & Blake”. Always a pleasure to work with vendor partners like Puff ‘n Stuff Catering.”
“Nicolle Avery and John put together this amazing wedding. They had a “Lovefest” where everyone just poured out their joy of why these two are amazing friends, and I was so happy to be apart of it. It all took place at the Maitland Art Center.

They also had a dream team of vendors that Kristen McDonald withBlush by Brandee Gaar helped put together including Puff ‘n Stuff Catering.”
Also check out a Caterer’s Yelp page and see if they have positive reviews .
While finding a lunch caterer in Orlando can be hard, hopefully we made it a little bit easier for you.

Tasty Indian Food Choices | Livening Your Catered Events | Central Florida Catering

Why not spice up your event with a traditional and festive Indian Food spread that will delight and intrigue your guests pallets?   Indian Food is fun and interesting and there is a wide variety to choose from including Indian Curry recipes & Indian Dessert recipes.

Pickle recipes, chaat, koftas, dosas, and Jain and Punjabi preparations like aloo mutter and malai paneer are great traditional vegetarian recipes that can be found in Indian Cuisine.  For our non-vegetarians, there are numerous options that will tantalize your taste buds as well. Seafood recipes like Bengali, Malabar, and Goan, are sure to excite your guests.

India and Indian food are diverse and exciting with many varieties and styles from Mughlai, South Indian, Guajarati, even coastal food.

Importance of Corporate Lunches | Company Lunches Do’s and Don’ts | Central Florida Catering

1. Don’t place an order for the full group in a way that is not interpreted by the full group. One time a CEO determined we’d consume ‘family style’, entailing we would acquire a bundle of food, and we would all share.Trouble followed, he ordered in Chinese, and did not actually assure us non-Chinese speakers what he ordered. All the food was surprising. I detest surprises once it concerns my food. Do not articulate “Try it, you’ll like it”.I am not seven. Assure me what it is I’m about to eat, and do not be funny around it. I will be, to a lesser extent, mad if it is calamari and you assure me it is calamari, than whenever you assure me it is special shrimp and Iamb chomp into a suction cup. Not cool.
2. Don’t try to talk about religious belief at a table full of people with wide-ranging backgrounds.
3. Don’t try to talk over politics the least bit. Particularly when the discussion commences with the words “Your government”. Hey, last time I ascertained, you lived here as well, unless you’re commuting from Canada everyday.
4. Do not make loud jokes about how attractive the women are. Seems sensible, considering as how there were women in attendance. And yet, it came about. I just put my head down and ate.
5. Do not invite people to lunch, as a group, under the pretense of a company-sponsored excursion, then narrate it after wards they have eaten that “It adds up to $9 apiece” whilst you hold your hand out. Once they aforementioned “corporate lunch”, I naturally (and mentally) slipped the word “-sponsored” betwixt”corporate” and “lunch”, and was geared up to get my eat on free of charge. Nevertheless, acknowledging what I recognize about where I work, I also mentally prepared myself for the likeliness that I’d be amounting out of pocket. So I was prepared for it. And let down that I was once again proven right by these guys.

Do a corporate lunch right with Central Florida Catering Puff N Stuff.

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