January is National Hot Tea Drinkers month....7% of the U.S. populace rate tea as their hot beverage of choice. But what happens at a typical catered event? The coffee and decaf drinkers get theirs, and if you’re lucky you will get your tea sometime before everyone leaves. Tea drinks at many banquet facilities, hotels and off-site catering venues are treated as second-class citizens. Some even bring their own knee pads so that they can kneel down next to their seat and beg for just a cup of hot water….they came prepared with their own tea bags and few with a lemon wedge or two tucked neatly away in their purse of jacket.
This is too bad…..I can remember 30 years ago when I first started catering we were lucky if we could get the coffee to brew before blowing a fuse or circuit breaker, much less consider serving tea….it was most definitely an after-thought. We would scramble for a clean pot to boil the water in, and then tried to find where someone hid the lemons and the actual tea bags…I’m sure basic Lipton!!!
Times have changed since the early 1980’s, and now Bill Hansen Catering is proud to serve hot tea drinkers before their Juan Valdez loving friends who love the cuppajoe……We proudly serve Mighty Leaf Tea…from a classic tea box…
Here’s how it works: Ladies and Gentlemen, we about to begin after dinner beverage service, but first, who would like tea?”
January is also National Eat Your Prunes for Breakfast month…we have no comment and plead the fifth…
Bill,sad to say I DO remember trying to boil water in a pot at the Villa (and yes-almost 30 years ago!),and YES again,we served plain old lipton tea!! We then snagged a lemon from the bar and all was good-back "then". Glad times have changed!!!
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