Catering home cooked food

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If you were to pay someone for home cooked food for a party of lets say, 35 people, chicken biryani and haleem, how much would you pay?

For example, would $10 per person, $350 sound reasonable ? Is that cheap? is that too much?

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Depends on quality and taste, TBH, and competition within the area. Would that include delivery as well? Are you going to throw in raita/chutney/naan? How generous are the portions?

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If it is only chicken biryani and halleem then I would pay per tray rather than per person.... About 15-20 people eat out of one tray so I would probably do 2 trays of biryani and one tray of haleem. Biryani is usually 50$ per tray and haleem is any where from 60-80$ depending on whether it is beef, goat or chicken. so the most I would pay for it would be 180. If you include naan, raita, and salad, it would obviously be more.

I only pay per person if there are many items like appetizers and kabobs, dessert etc. Otherwise, party trays are way more affordable. The only time I paid per person was for biryani and it was 3.5$ per person during ramadan and this lady caters from her home also. Her usual rate was 4$ but she gave us a discount for ramadan. For goal biryani it was 4.5$ per person and she was extremely generous with portions and meat.

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Wow! I have never found less than $120 for goat biryani. $100 for chicken. I am talking about the large trays.

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That is way too pricey! Where do you usually get it from?
Houston has way too many options. Last time we got biryani, gulab jamun, chicken tikka masala, palak paneer, and samosas for 20 people for 180$. About 40 people ate from it though and some people took two servings.

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I live in the Midwest. But found similar pricing in Georgia too.

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Wow ! All that for $180? We would never find it here in Missouri.