Catering Tips - Hightop Hospitality

For many, food is an important day-to-day life experience. Yet when planning a funeral or celebration of life, the refreshments or meal provided oftentimes isn't reflective of the life of the person being remembered. Today, Antigoni Sander, Director of Catering for Hightop Hospitality (a restaurant, retail, catering, and event venue company in the Twin Cities) shares tips and trends as it pertains to end-of-life events. This episode was hosted and produced by Anne Morehouse, original music created and performed by Caileen Viehweg. Contact info for today's episode: Antigoni Sander, Director of Catering, Hightop Hospitality: [email protected] Green Mill Catering Deco Catering Sterling Catering Kafe 421 Catering Catering Tips - Hightop Hospitality   :25 Welcome Antigoni Sander, Director of Catering   :40 What is Hightop Hospitality?  1:25 Suggestions for planning food for a funeral reception/celebration of life  2:44 Why talk about it? How can food be reflective of a person’s life?  5:24 Trends in funerals/celebrations of life from a catering perspective  7:30 How to plan for guest count  8:11 The menu planning process  8:34 Budgeting for food and catering 10:49 Planning by religion, cultural menus and family recipes 13:57 Anne’s experience 15:00 Antigoni’s example for bringing a favorite food to the table  15:39 Creating a memorable event with food 16:25 Take mental notes by asking questions 17:00 Eco-friendly events 18:20 The benefit of planning ahead  20:51 Antigoni’s advice: Delegate catering to a trusted person. 23:25 Be your own advocate - speak up if there is anything you want done differently. 24:45 Antigoni invites people to reach out, even in advance.