I've got all the price lists for a banquet room, catering, beverages and bar fee. I haven't had a chance to talk to the sales manager about what's available for a hospitality suite, but I've been assured facilities are available. They don't have their catering lists available on-line, so I'll send them to Ginger and maybe she can post them on the website so we can all look and them to see what we would like. They have quite a range of stuff available, so I think we'll be able to find enough for everyone to enjoy.
Banquet room: $250
Bartender: $80 per bartender (2 bartenders required for groups of 60 or more)
Carving station, Butler pass and Cocktail servers (I don't think we're going to get that fancy): $100 each
Additional beer bar available for a fee of $80.00 includes the bartender
Sounds very reasonable. The HS and Prom room rental are usually where we spend most of our money, so we'll have to see what the HS suite costs, too. (NOLA burns in my memory, oh yes, it burns.)
Thanks for all you (and everyone else who has contributed) have done, Sail.
Additional beer bar available for a fee of $80.00 includes the bartender
Um, I might just offer to pay for this myself. Local brews, I expect?
I'm surprised you didn't ask if that meant you got to keep the bartender.
I'm surprised you didn't ask if that meant you got to keep the bartender.
I shall withhold my request until I see him. If he's a strapping young midwestern boy . . . well, we all have our weaknesses.
Ask what the damage deposit is on him, Vortex.
I'm thinking he'll volunteer once he meets Vortex.
I don't strictly understand how their bar seems to work. They included beverage lists for wine by the bottle and beer by the 1/2 barrel. This list includes "Beer available for Reserve", which I'm not quite sure what that means, but says also that you cannot reserve higher quantities of barrels than ordered, so we order one, we can reserve up to one more? The half barrels run from $215 to $300 and, besides your standard Miller and Bud products, includes:
Rolling Rock
Leinie's Red
Leinie's Honey Weiss (available for reserve)
Capitol Amber (reserve)
Heineken
New Glarus Spotted Cow (reserve)
Newcastle Brown Ale
Stella Artois
New Glarus and Capitol are local brews. The Spotted Cow is very popular, mild, but flavorful. The Captiol Amber is relatively robust, hoppy. I prefer Capitol Maibock, but it's a seasonal. The wine lists say that other wines are available by request, so it may be possible with the beer, too? Can't hurt to ask.
Excuse my giddiness, but I am sooooo excited. All of you that I have met should know how much I look forward to seeing you again, BUT SO MANY NEW BUFFISTAS! New Buffistas, in new places! Oh, my!
eta: not necessarily just new Buffistas, but Buffistas I have known for a long time but have never met.
Shiny!
