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Picky guest meal - please help!

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Laura, on May 18, 2021 at 11:35 PM

Please help my fiancé and I solve this issue.

We will be serving chicken and salmon (recommended by catering company as steaks have various temps), vegetarian dish to our adult guests. However, ONE adult doesn’t like/eat chicken or salmon— only eats steak/hamburgers/beef. He is extremely picky and wouldn’t eat the vegetarian dish either. I’m not going to serve him a steak for obvious reasons. For kids meals, we decided on chicken tenders, fries, broccoli. Fiancé said he or another guest can bring a hamburger patty/bun for the caterer to cook up for this one guest, but trying to make it as easy as we possibly can for caterer. Too hard to tend to guests individually.
Should I.....1) change the kids meals to spaghetti and meatballs and serve this on a larger plate to the one guest?2) ask catering company to cook up hamburger for the one guest?3) provide same meal as other adults and if he doesn’t eat it, then so be it.
TIA! 💕

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Kari · on May 20, 2021 at 10:12 AM
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I would NOT accommodate this guests picky eating habits at all. Definitely option #3.
Bringing in outside food and asking the caterers to cook it should never be a consideration. That's a huge liability/health code violation.
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K · on May 20, 2021 at 10:14 AM
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Option 3, unless he is a very special and important guest. I’m that case I would go with Option 1
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Just Said Yes August 2022
Michelle · on May 20, 2021 at 10:20 AM
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Option #3! They can eat sides or prepare before hand; since they know what's on the menu. This is what most adults do with food allergies, preferences, or diet beliefs. I agree spaghetti and meatballs is too messy for kids, and I wouldn't want to make things harder on the cater for just one person (or have to remind the cater on the day of- you may have different people working that day, then who you spoke to). You are the BRIDE, you don't have time to run around on your special day trying to accommodate this one person and their meal choice.
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