Graduation season means a lot of families feeding a crowd all at once, and pit-smoked BBQ is about as crowd-friendly as food gets. We cater events of any size, whether you're hosting twenty people in the backyard or a much bigger get-together.
There's a reason so many families default to BBQ for a graduation party instead of trying to grill for forty people themselves. Chopped or sliced BBQ with sides like baked beans, mac n cheese, and potato salad holds up well sitting out on a buffet table for a few hours, unlike a lot of grilled food that's best eaten the minute it comes off the heat. Those sides are what we'd steer you toward for a spread -- the hot ones stay good over sterno through an afternoon, potato salad keeps cold on ice, and none of them fade the way anything fried does. Fried items are the exception: onion rings and hushpuppies are at their best straight out of the fryer and don't hold long, so they're a counter order rather than a buffet one. Guests can come and go throughout the afternoon, plates get built exactly the way each person wants, and nobody's stuck manning a grill instead of actually being at the party.
The best move is to reach out as early as you can once you've got a date locked in, since spring fills up quickly. Graduation weekends tend to cluster tightly, the same few Fridays and Saturdays in May and early June, which means a lot of families in the area are all trying to book catering for roughly the same dates. Getting in touch as soon as you know your date, even before you've nailed down guest count or exact menu, helps us hold time for you.
Call us at (704) 735-1112 or use the catering quote form on our website, and we'll work out the details with you directly, including sizing everything to your guest count. Whether it's a small family gathering to celebrate one graduate or a bigger party combining a few families' celebrations into one, we'll help figure out how much chopped BBQ, how many sides, and how many buns actually make sense for your crowd, rather than guessing and either running short or over-ordering.