BOOKING INFORMATION
A B & C Catering quotation is our offer to extend products and services to you as specified and priced, and upon your acceptance (written or verbal), becomes our event plan, whereupon we will begin making preparations as needed to execute the event plan. You can make changes, including cancellation, at any time up until seven days in advance of the event date, but at that time ("contract date"), we will consider the event plan to be final, and a formal contract. A final guest count is required at this time. In the absence of communication from the client on the contract date, we will assume the most recent event plan is the final plan, including guest count.
If you wish to make changes to the event plan after the "contract date", we will do whatever is practical, but may not be able to make the changes you want. It is not uncommon to increase the guest count after the "contract date", and we are typically able to accommodate these requests.
For wedding receptions, and in certain other cases, an advance deposit is required upon acceptance, and these are non refundable.
PAYMENT INFORMATION
The B & C Catering quotation is also your invoice. Payment in our industry is expected at the time of service, unless other arrangements have been made in advance. B&C Catering accepts cash, check, Visa, Mastercard, American Express and Discover. Remittance address is 7485 ivory road, reeds, mo 64859.
TIPPING AT B&C CATERING
Unlike most caterers, the prices we quote have no mandated gratuities, service charges, "catering charges", or any other unlisted costs or multipliers. We believe it should be up to the client to determine what level of gratuity for our service staff is appropriate. Most of our clients choose to tip, and it is very much appreciated by our staff and B & C Catering as it helps us retain quality catering employees.
Amounts vary, and generally fall between 5 and 12 %, depending on the size and the nature of the event. We request that gratuities be added to your payment to B & C Catering. We will allocate this among our staff based on the contribution of each individual to the overall execution of the job. Many corporate clients ask us to add a gratuity to the invoice because of their accounting practices. If you would like us to do this, please let us know.
