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Plan Your Best Holiday Yet with Catering in Philadelphia

Healthy Holiday Catering by Waterfront Gourmet

With Thanksgiving in the rearview, it’s time to set your sights on the next big event that’s coming down the pipeline. A lot of us here in Philadelphia are getting ready to prepare for the upcoming holidays and this year promises to present its own challenges, not the least of which is a home-cooked meal that might take a full day (or longer) to prepare.

Still, with the next round of holidays coming up fast, it’s better if you get ahead of them because they’ll be here in a flash. It seems like they’re reasonably in the distance, but they’re coming up.

For anyone that has more planning to do for the upcoming holidays than for Thanksgiving, getting ahead is even more important. You may have to buy gifts for a whole lot of guests, prepare for entertainment and decorations on top of food.

A lot more comes with the territory of planning here, and it takes not only time but a lot of foresight. This year, though, if you’re planning on hosting the holidays, you can plan your most successful fest yet, especially with a little help from our catering services.

Before you even look for “catering near me,” just consider how working with us will give you more time to focus on other areas of planning for your celebration. You won’t even need to search because you’re already in the right place to make it happen.

Get Back to What Matters Most

If you just cooked a Thanksgiving turkey for your family, then you know firsthand just how much time you can sink into the preparation of a meal. When you account for preparing the bird, cooking, whether roasting, frying, or otherwise, and then resting and carving, you have a several-hour ordeal that spans across more than one day. And that’s just the turkey!

All that time you spent preparing, cooking, carving, and cleaning could have been spent with the people that came to visit you, since that’s what Thanksgiving is about, and truthfully, it’s what the upcoming holidays are about too.

That’s just one aspect of the whole picture, and there are other ways that our catering services can take your entertainment to the next level. What’s interesting is this year has presented enough challenges for hosting events, and you need to take the help you can get – everyone does.

  • More time with friends and family

When friends and family come to visit you for the holidays, what matters is spending quality time with them, which is something you can’t do if your hands are tied in the kitchen. Even if you aren’t carving up a bird, and a lot of you will be, cooking and food preparation are a time sink.

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The best catering in Philadelphia does a lot more than give you more time with your friends and family, but that’s probably where it all starts. If you need one single reason to search out catering companies in Philadelphia. PA, to make your holiday hosting easier, do it to give yourself more time with your guests.

The holidays are about the quality time you spend with your family and friends, and you should take it where you can get it. Some of you reading this might be seeing some of your relatives and loved ones for the first time in a while, which makes the value of extra time even more enticing. Just know that the help is there, and having your holiday even catered is a great way to add what can seem like a few more minutes to each hour.

  • Less time in the kitchen

For those of you that don’t make a home-cooked meal for the holidays, you can still spend less time in the kitchen when you let a caterer do all the hard work for you. Even when you aren’t actively engaged in cooking a meal, there’s a lot of background food preparation that goes into setting up a holiday meal or buffet, and that eats up time just the same as cooking. So does tending to your guests’ needs in refreshments. It all takes up precious moments, but our catering services can help you cut back on that.

  • Less clean up

What some people (particularly those who are being served a meal) seem to forget that after the meal has been served and the guests are satisfied, the job is only half over at most. It might even be said most of the work remains after the meal is done.

It grows in scope with the size of the event. A routine after dinner clean up might only entail cleaning a pot or two and then a few dishes, but after a sizable holiday feast you won’t just have plates to clear and a multitude of cookware to clean and square away, but you’ll also have to account for leftovers as well.

Some people use their finest china, silverware, and glassware for important events like the holidays, in which case the clean up will take on a new dimension of work. That’s all the time that needs to be spent working during the holiday that you could spend with your guests.

Contrast this to the amount of cleanup you’d have to perform if you pull the results of “catering near me” and call a caterer to handle your holiday meal. There’s a night and day difference.

Sure, you might still have leftovers to store, and dishes and silverware to clean, but you might not even have that. What’s really important here is that there you won’t have to deal with cleaning up any cookware, which is a whole process. It all comes down to less time in the kitchen and less clean up, which will make your holidays more enjoyable.

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  • Put more money towards the rest of the festivities

Here’s something you might not have thought of, but it’s a benefit of utilizing catering services around the holidays nonetheless. You, like a lot of other people celebrating, may have some budgeting to do, and paying for the big feast can put a hole in holiday finances.

While it might seem counterintuitive that catering can save you money, there’s a good chance that it can. And since time is money, it’s almost as though catering can save you double the money.

Really, though, holiday ingredients and spices are expensive, and the prices can rack up quickly. You also usually end up making more than you need and end up with leftovers or spare ingredients that you’ll have no use for throughout the rest of the year but which also won’t last till next December.

Even if you are fastidious about budgeting for and preparing the feast, you might still be able to save a little by catering. Here at Waterfront Gourmet, we specialize in providing some of the best affordable catering in the Philadelphia area, and saving our customers money at this time of year is not just a pleasantry – it actually makes a difference.

If you can save money on catering or preparing for the party, you can reallocate that money into other areas of planning, which involves buying gifts for loved ones. Basically, save on the meal, have more money for gifts, or just save yourself some extra.

  • Fresh, new flavor profiles and combinations

Finally, although this is a great time to take advantage of our catering services throughout the year, it’s just as good a reason to do so around the holidays.

Our customers love us because we give refreshing new meaning to flavor. We don’t just talk about it, we put our money where our mouth is and are committed to making continuous, ongoing improvements to our menu so that you always have something fresh to look forward to when you try something we have to offer.

Partnering with us to have your holiday event catered is a safe bet that you’ll deliver fresh, interesting new flavors and combinations to your guests. It’s just one way to ensure they’ll enjoy a holiday party they’ll always remember.

A Menu Custom Made for Your Celebration

If you’re thinking of offloading some of the work of hosting, then catering is a great way to go about it, especially when you work with a caterer like us. Instead of just putting options in front of you and giving you a limited choice, we’ll actually work with you directly to come up with a menu that is not only suitable for your event but will take into account your needs and the needs of your guests.

Coming up with a custom made menu is just one of the many great reasons to choose Waterfront Gourmet, but it’s also one of the most important ones. Delivering an exciting, satisfying, memorable menu to your guests for a special occasion is the only reason you’d consider giving away the responsibility of actually preparing the holiday meal, and we can help with that. Here’s how to ensure your menu makes everyone happy:

  • Consider the preferences of your guests

The first thing you’re going to want to do in order to ensure that your catered offering makes everyone happy is to take into account and special tastes that your guests have. Are there any picky eaters who will be joining you? Are there any kids that will be coming along? Is there a dish or a style of dish that your family is used to being served around the holidays? These are all questions to ask yourself before trying to come up with a menu.

  • Take any dietary restrictions or special needs into account

Tastes aren’t the only thing to consider in your menu planning process. They matter, but they’re no more important than the actual dietary restrictions you may have to plan for.

We pride ourselves on our customer service, and a part of that is delivering menu items that are suitable for all customers. We recognize that some customers have dietary restrictions or choose to follow certain diets with limitations.

Because of that, if you have a need, we’ll help you plan a menu that has gluten-free offerings as well as vegetarian options or even vegan dishes. Just get in touch with us as the location closest to you to start planning today. Don’t let any time waste, since the holidays are coming up fast.

  • Plan ahead of time

Planning ahead of time is probably the most important thing you can do to ensure that your event goes well and that everyone ends up happy. It might seem like you have plenty of time to plan, but really the holidays will be on you before you know it.

Start planning your guest list needs, make arrangements for whatever entertainment you intend to provide, and get started on a menu as soon as you can.

Freshness Matters

When it comes to carefully crafted food creations, freshness matters, especially when you are putting your trust in a caterer. Half of the reason that people cook their own meals around the holidays is because a home-cooked meal is fresh and effectively made to order. You’d want to get at least the same experience from a caterer.

Other caterers might prepare your meals ahead of time and keep them chilled, but we never do. When we have a catered order to deliver, we prepare it freshly, right before delivery. Freshness matters, and that’s why everything we do is “Always Fresh, Always Awesome.”

One more thing – we’ll even deliver your order free, which can put some money back in your pocket. Just like we mentioned above, catering can actually save you some money, and every penny counts.

Contact One of Our Locations

You can get started today to ensure you’re ahead of everything when the holidays get closer. Best of all, you won’t need to waste any time looking for “catering near me.” Just call up our flagship Philadelphia waterfront location or the closest location to you and you can get started working with a member of our team to come up with a custom-made catering menu for your holiday party. The best catering holiday party you’ve ever hosted is just a few weeks away!

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