Rental catering equipment tips
Starting your own catering business and want to know how to go about renting the needed equipment?
Here are 5 helpful tips to find the best catering tables and chairs on rental terms:
Tips No 1. Find out more about the rental company. Be sure that your rental company has the equipment, including tables and chairs tailored to the type of events you are staging.
Tips No 2. The reputation of the rental company. You must request for an extensive list of happy customers. Also, you should request for references from caterers, planners and others who have worked with the rental company in the past. Stay away from a company that is unable to provide any of these.
Tips No 3. Request to see the equipment before committing. Chairs and catering tables should be sturdy. Don’t jeopardize your event with bad catering pieces of equipment that do not work well.
Tips No. 4. Acess the equipment rental company in terms of responsiveness. Are phone calls picked up promptly to emails? Do their team arrive on time? Answering these questions will help your decision whether to proceed with the rental company or not.
Tips No 5. Does the rental company offer a guarantee? If some of the equipment, besides the catering tables and chair fails to perform their functions as well as expected, there must have a way to compensate you the customer. Finally, there must be a contingency plan if some of the items you ordered are unable, broken or damaged.
Buying small equipment such as catering tables and chairs is usually a smart alternative to the rental if you are planning to slowly grow your business from a small f&b event planner to a full-scale size in the future.