I like banquet events. They are parties planned out usually weeks in advance, everyone knows what everyone is eating, how many people there will be, where they will be sitting and every other conceivable piece of information that could possibly be needed to coordinate the function.

In a perfect world everything would run smooth as warm honey. Tonight we had a sweet 16 dinner party. It was a formal sit down dinner. It was an expensive formal sit down dinner at $37 a plate. This is more than most weddings drop per plate and the guest of honor does not yet have her driver's license. There were also 5 different entrees for the 82 people attending. (Previously, at the most I have done 3 different entrees for the same party) Then the DJ did a no show. The banquet staff are not hired based on any sort of experience waiting tables so they did not understand the table number and seat number method of identifying who gets what. Anyone who has waited tables anywhere will understand what I am talking about. The banquet staff are getting table numbers wrong, seat positions wrong, extra guests who are previously unaccounted for are walking through the door. These are the people who no doubt received an invitation, but didn't bother to RSVP. They also like to show up fashionably late so I am creating entrees out of thin air 2 hrs and 40 minutes after the party started.