Food & bar IQ
The cake, the buffet clock, the bar you were going to stock yourself.
Food & bar IQ is for whoever is feeding people. Food has a clock, cake has a sun problem, and a bar is a staffed operation. Everyone is counting on you not to learn this live.
The 10 questions
- The warehouse-club bar — The venue lets you bring your own alcohol. You can hear the savings already. So can I.
- The cake in the window — Gorgeous light on the sweetheart table. Six hours of it.
- How long can it sit? — The buffet opened at 6:30 and nobody is watching the clock.
- How many drinks? — Open bar, five hours. Caterers plan from a rule of thumb. Slide to the drinks per adult.
- Open, limited, or cash — The bar package is the scary line. Three ways to shrink it. One of them costs you something else.
- Seventy-four forks — A three-tier cake, six, eight and ten inches. Wedding-cut slices. Slide to how many it feeds.
- Vendor meals: zero — The caterer’s count form has a line for vendor meals. You write zero. They’ll grab something, right?
- The count dropped. The bill didn’t. — A hundred and twenty became ninety-five. The quote was per head. So the bill shrinks too, right?
- The buffet against the wall — A hundred and forty guests, one long buffet, pushed flat against the wall so it’s out of the way.
- Fries in the back room — The late-night food is fries and milk with cookies, on a table in the room behind the bar.
Every Food & bar IQ question is pre-written: Belle asks, you answer, she tells you the truth about the answer you picked, and the careful version waits on Boards. Your ladder here is your own; a subject becomes its own IQ at 3 questions.