The tool
Start with the numbers. The Grazing Table Planner works out quantities, coverage, and assortment for your board size and guest count. Describe the event and Hospitality Assist builds a starting composition around your inputs, so you’re ordering to a plan, not a guess.
Grazing Table Planner
A complete grazing-table plan, not just guest count times ounces. Procurement-friendly quantity ranges for cheese, charcuterie, produce, and accompaniments; a suggested assortment; a display size and station count; seasonal and indoor or outdoor guidance; and a replenishment strategy for the whole event.
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The knowledge
Working knowledge for the two halves of the job. “How to Plan a Grazing Table” covers the decisions that happen before you start shopping: style, scale, flow, and how to scope a board from the first conversation to the final design. “Grazing Table Food Safety” covers the clock you are running once it is built. More in development.
Grazing Table Food Safety
Time and temperature for a spread that sits out: which items are actually on the clock, how to stage in waves, and what changes outdoors.
Open →How to Plan a Grazing Table
The quantities, variety, and seasonal thinking behind a grazing table that looks abundant and actually feeds the room.
How to Price a Grazing Table
How to price grazing by the guest without giving away the labor, sourcing, and display work that make it worth it.
Charcuterie Sourcing Guide
What to buy where, how to spec quality, and how to order cheese and cured meat by the board without over-buying.
The prints
Planning sheets built to travel with the work. Print them, mark them up, and bring them to the job.
Grazing Table Plan
A printable companion to the planner: menu and quantities by category, display and station layout, the replenishment split, and an on-site timeline.
Open →Dietary & Allergen Tracker
A printable tracker for every guest restriction: the guest, the restriction and its severity, the seat or meal, and who owns it on the day.
The signature moves
Grazing tables don’t always happen in isolation. These are the tools grazing professionals reach for alongside the planner, for the events where a board is part of something larger.
Hors d'Oeuvres Calculator
How many pieces per guest when the board is not the whole meal.
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Buffet Flow Planner
Lay out a spread that reads left to right and does not back up.
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Delivery Fee Calculator
Price the drop-off so distance and setup do not eat the margin.
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Client Discovery Questions
The questions to ask before you quote a grazing event.
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Delivery Timeline Planner
Map every drop-off and arrival window so a multi-event day holds together.