Drinks
At events and functions tea towels can be your best friend!
At events and functions tea towels can be your best friend! At a professionally run event or function tea towels are never to be under estimated or under appreciated. The thing about tea towels is not only do you use them all the time (and I mean all the time) - so does everyone else - and they are going to forget theirs so... bring extras! I"m referring here to cooks and caterers particularly - because once they have used them around the cooking area - they are no good to the drinks staff. So a power tip is to have lots of clean, dry and lint free tea towels in two different colours so that the kitchen can use one colour and the drinks staff can use another. And tea towels save you money! really? I here you ask - that"s a good one - how? Well, if you are hiring glasses for your event, tea towels will allow two things to happen that will save you; 1 - depending on how many staff you have available you will most likely be able to turn glasses that are coming back to the bar or the kitchen for re-use - drying is impossible with wet tea towels - but with nice, clean, dry and lint free ones your glasses can go back to the floor looking their best and you should be in a position to reduce the numbers of glasses that you need to hire. 2 - most glass hire companies (even Who"s Waiting sometimes) charge a fee for glasses that are returned unwashed and polished. This fee can be as high as 30% - the fact is you can keep staff busy towards the end of the evening getting those glasses clean and dry ready for return - only - if you have lots of lovely, dry clean tea towels that have not be stained by the catering people. Keeping your drinks cloths separate from the catering side of things is,Ò of course, important for hygiene as well - food and drink does not mix off the table. Cleaning your bar area, however, is best done with chucks or kitchen cloths which will take up liquid readily and leave things clean and hygienic for the next round of drinks. Minimum requirements? we don"t recommend running even a small function without 6 - 8 tea towels. They really can be very, very useful!Team Building Melbourne commented:
First time I have come across tea towel. I think you have described it very nicely. Thanks for sharing a worth post with us.
05.05.2012