Surgions party!!!!

We had our first large hospitality event in the In-Room department this week. The hospitality event followed a banquet diner that hosted 1200 guest. Individual guests were given private invitations to come to the suite after diner. The hospitality set-up was based on expecting 100 guests but only fifty people circulated through the suite during the night. The food display included mostly dessert items were elevated to different heights to add to the display as well as making the food easily accessible. Since there were two rooms we set up the dry desserts in the main room on the main dining room table. The coffee station was situated on a smaller table that was against the wall to allow guest the easy access to dessert beverages right after picking their dessert. The second room contained the Ice cream desserts with the desserts on higher platforms and the ice cream on the table. Three heat lanterns were ordered to cover the patio area since the night time weather was cold. Lots of preparation took place before the set-up to insure that the function could be set-up and torn down quick and efficiently. Since the suite is an occupied sleeping room we had to set up and tear down the event within thirty minutes to allow the guest to still use the suite area as a private area before and after the party. The guest mostly consumed cordial and dessert liquors although a full bar was provided. The bar did require a bartender during the party so I volunteered to bartend the party and get a feel for some of the different things that we could have done in order to make the party run smoother. The event did go very smooth and some things that I would have done differently are learning the stereo functions before the party began. We also should have had more brandy sifters to drink out of since the party was a dessert function and there was an older crowd that was drinking. Besides these miner setbacks the party went very smooth and the guest enjoyed themselves.