What's The Most Exorbitant Catering Bill You've Gotten For A Short Flight?

[hawker750]

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When I worked for Club 328 the sales team decided that it would be nice for the pax to have a really nice meal... £1500 worth of nice meals for 5 pax! Was it charged back to the customer? No
Did it tumble all the profits for the flight? Yes it did...

Profits would not have tumbled because like most suppliers of 328 the caterers were probably not paid

[hawker750]

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Last week I paid 21 Euros for three nicely presented smoked salmon salads, and got 2 kg of ice for free - all from upstairs in Terminal 1.

Good man you can come and work for me!

[Tequilaboy]

Just some successful advice

If you have the leadtime and are near a Waitrose use their entertaining ordering service. Seriously good and well presented variety of food all for 10% of what an FBO/Catering firm would charge. I always had less complaints about the Waitrose stuff than the real expensive stuff!

Just a thought . . .

https://www.waitrosedeliver.com/wdel...sp?siteCode=BI

[hawker750]

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I once worked out that across the fleet the company spent 3000 euros a year on sliced lemons alone (cost, delivery etc..) all so passengers could stuff them in their tea. but never did

I do not understand how lemons and a knife can amount to €3,000 p.a. At the local supermarket they are about 20p, unless of course the hosty was ordering "sliced lemons" from a catering company, if so time for new hosties.

A lot of the high catering costs can be eliminated by by the simple mind set of "would I be doing this if I had to pay personally?"

[merlinxx]

A good CC member is worth their weight in gold Maybe they are not slinky 21 year old, perma tanned bints. Give me a 40 year old who's learnt the trade any day There are lots around, employ them

[Cecco]

50 Euro for a bag of ice cubes...I enjoyed the fact that most PAX never touched (and those who did left a servere mess...) the catering and that we could eat it all ourselves

[hawker750]

Merlin
You are correct
A good CC member is worth their weight in gold Maybe they are not slinky 21 year old, perma tanned bints. Give me a 40 year old who's learnt the trade any day There are lots around, employ them

I had a hostie once who actualy said that she could not find sliced lemons in the supermarket! She probably thought they came from the "sliced lemon tree". Thank god she was only a freelancer and she only did one trip for us

[smallfry]

Thats hysterical! Did she look in the sliced fruit section? Dear me!

[flybypilot]

40min Flight £2000 Lisbon - NEVER AGAIN!!!

Thanks god for CC!!

[merlinxx]

What ho Hawker

There is one company (you know it) run by an ex Corporate/Bizav CC member in the Southern UK who I think has excellent standards, no name, but my customers were always very happy I guess the fact that her other half is a Bizav Capt may assist, but this Lady has been there, seen it & done it

A tremendous amount of planning goes into menu planning & construction, and only an experienced Lady can do that in a small pantry, after all the CC are with the paying punter longer than anyone else

How many ad hoc charter crews understand that?

[GULF69]

Hell, and i though my experience was bad...

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[Challengerjetdriver]

We have been using hotel dining services, most of them offer paper or aluminum containers, of course coffee and ice is a different story. We have saved ALOT of money...

[flying mechanik]

Once in nice catering was ordered by ops, was really suprised how its possible to pay 2900 eur per person on a 5 hrs flight.
normal we use the restauraunt upstairs, good food for max 50 eur per person
crazy people over there