Catering and Tipping

Will they be serving as well? Or is that separate? I feel servers always deserve tips!

It's a buffet style, so no. I always tip, especially waitstaff, but I believe it's just the owners that are making the food and setting it up.

This is tricky. I will say that 16.5% tax and fee seems incredibly high. I am not sure where you are from, so maybe your sales tax is higher there, but that is more than double our sales tax where I live. So maybe they are factoring in gratuity already? Maybe read the fine print in your contract. See exactly what you are paying for and use your best judgement. If you do decide to tip, maybe you could do 15% instead of the traditional 20% or something like that to balance out the cost? I am curious to see what other ladies say on here as well.

The 16.5% is the combined clean up and sales tax. Tax is 6.5% and the 10% is clean up. 15-20% off our bill is almost a $400 tip and that seems ludicrously high to me, since they don't hire extra help. If they had actual servers, I'd probably just tip them directly. I'm not sure where my contract is, though, because we had a house fire so everything has been a mess, lol. Thank you for your thoughts, though!

A 10% clean up fee?!?! That is insane. And you are right $400 is high when they are already charging you an insane clean up fee. I am starting to lean towards not tipping....

Also, I am so sorry to hear about your house fire!!! I hope you did not loose too much stuff! Good luck with everything!

I talked to a friend of mine that got married there! She said that they just had the owners, so there was no additional help. She said they didn't tip, due to the percentages they're already taking out. Thanks everyone!