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How to Set Up Your Buffet On a Budget

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Buyers in the hospitality industry, including hotel, club, and event managers, are responsible for purchasing buffet set up equipment. Each hoping to find a solution for keeping the dining experience as satisfying as possible while staying within budget, they are all consistently seeking out different opportunities to elevate the dining experience to an elegant buffet.  Thankfully, Rosseto is a leading expert in hospitality serving solutions, offering specially adapted and modular buffet equipment to help host the dinner buffet table setting arrangement at the highest standard. 

Challenges of Buffet Set Up Equipment Today

Keeping your buffet equipment looking aesthetically pleasing and functional is always a primary challenge for hospitality buyers. It becomes increasingly more challenging to keep your buffet beautiful, easy to use, safe, and well-designed using products that are built to last.

Unfortunately, many food and beverage managers fall victim to purchasing cheap buffet equipment that they are forced to replace in a short amount of time. While these products might be gentler on the bottom line today, in terms of long-term costs, buying well-designed products that last will be more cost-effective.

How Do You Lay Out a Buffet?

Have you ever wondered, how much does it cost to build a buffet? Well, the truth is it can vary. Thankfully though, with the help of industry leaders like Rosseto, a buffet set up can be fun and easy, without breaking the bank. Here are a few creative ideas on how to set up your buffet while staying within your budget.

What Is the Proper Order to Set Up a Buffet Table?

We’ll start with the basics:

The idea is that you want to have a flexible buffet set up for every decor, space, and theme. Finding unique products that are not only beautiful to look at but also able to match in various areas is critical.

Here’s a great place to start if you’re wondering where to begin with the buffet setup.

Keep It Safe

You’ll want to make sure to keep your buffet safe for everyone involved, especially in a post-covid environment. Protecting guests and staff alike, Rosseto offers a wide variety of safety solutions. The ultimate solution for your buffet’s serving stations is buffet sneeze guards.

Rosseto also has an array of hygiene options for dining experiences of all sizes. Create clean, pathogen-free air with the help of the new Ionsphere Air Sterilizer Units, also offered by Rosseto.

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Keep If Stylish and Elegant

The marriage of aesthetic appeal and a high level of utility has been the hallmark of beauty to many artists, architects, and product designers alike. With Rosseto buffet risers and stands, you can easily keep your buffet stylish and elegant at the same time.

Rosseto created the ultimate line of buffet display risers and table stands because they believe the relationship between form and function can and should be applied to the dining industry. 

All made from only the highest-quality materials, you can choose from a wide variety of display risers. Skycap display riser caps come in different colors as well as surfaces in different materials such as bamboo, walnut, acrylic, and glass.

Keep It Functional and Flowing

With the help of Rosseto’s chafers, you can keep your aesthetic sleek and modern. Rosseto chafers provide a functional and stylish alternative by starkly contrasting the conventional chafing dish.

By displaying food beautifully on acrylic or glass surfaces, or atop heat-resistant grills, you can elevate your buffets beyond chafers. Among the most dependable products currently made in the catering and hotel dining industry, Rosseto’s buffet food warmers and trays are superior. 

With multiple colors and finishes, such as black matte and brushed steel, the set works perfectly with Rosseto’s burner stands too.

Keep it Organized

Lastly, you want to make sure to keep your dinner buffet organized. The buffet should be accessible, visible, whileattractive for guests. The optimal buffet setup will result in a good flow through the space, and guests should be able to walk freely throughout your buffet without feeling crowded.  

The beverage station is another critical aspect of the dinner buffet that is often overlooked in terms of organization. It is crucial to have a separate area for drinks. Keep it a safe area by making sure to use the hands-free beverage dispensers Rosseto offers.

How Do You Add Height to a Food Table?

Buffet risers and displays can help you add height to a food table to keep things visually pleasing for your guests.

Rosseto’s multi-level buffet riser & display systems take traditional buffet ideas and elevates them for high-end applications. Exciting shapes, sizes, and colors inject a creative atmosphere into your everyday and special occasion buffet displays.

Here are some benefits you can look forward to when working with Rosseto’s modular buffet riser solutions.

Architecturally Appealing

Rosseto risers depict iconic structures and are composed of bold cutouts, whether you choose the traditional multi-level column risers, or marvel at modern design options. Functionality is always fabulous with Rosseto’s modular buffet risers.

All-in-One Design

Marrying aesthetic appeal and a high level of utility, you can immediately elevate your food and beverage displays. The products in the Rosseto line of modular buffet risers come together to form a comprehensive all-in-one display system to meet your every functional and fashionable food display need.

Eye-Catching Shapes

With intricate patternsrising to new heights, Rosseto serving ware is artfully displayed on a swan-like structure that peeks out of risers. Rosseto’s modular buffet risers and display systems attract the customer’s eye and jump-start their appetite with various square, rectangle,  or tableside options.

Brilliant Color Options

Brilliant color options let the food do the talking and more. Choose from:

  • Natural bamboo that highlights fresh produce
  • Striking stainless steel for an innovative feel
  • Lightweight melamine in whiteand walnut
  • Black matte sets a dramatic, yet sophisticated tone
  • Red gloss for an air of mystique
  • Transparent display containers

Display Buffet or Finger Buffet

Figuring out how to decorate your buffet area could be as simple as deciding between a display buffet or finger buffet. 
Either way, follow these expert tips:

  • Work on the vertical plane
  • Use wall art to your advantage
  • Accessorize your project
  • Work on a clean slate

Conclusion

Give your guests that memorable and elegant buffet dining experience they deserve. By following these expert tips and choosing the best available solutions, your guests will be returning to your buffet time and time again. Remember that buffet set up equipment can be exciting and aesthetically pleasing when you use Rosseto products.

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