Sandwich Platters And It's Benefits To Your Crew

A sandwich platter is the least exciting thing on a catering menu and the one that never fails. Nobody has ever walked out of a meeting complaining that there were sandwiches.

We deliver hundreds of them a week across Brisbane — to an office at eleven, to a site shed at six in the morning, to a wake at two in the afternoon. This is why they work, and how to order one that actually gets eaten.

Everyone can eat one. A platter is not one dish that has to suit everybody — it is fifteen small ones. Someone takes the chicken, someone takes the egg, the vegetarian takes two of the roasted vegetable, and nobody has to announce anything about themselves to get lunch.

That last part matters more than it sounds. Anyone who has had to put their hand up in a meeting and explain a dietary requirement knows the small awkwardness of it. A mixed platter removes the conversation entirely, which is a kind of hospitality that never appears on an invoice.

It works standing up. A corporate working lunch rarely has enough chairs. Sandwich halves need one hand, no cutlery and no plate if it comes to that, so the room keeps talking instead of queueing.

Compare that with anything that needs a fork. The moment lunch requires two hands and a flat surface, a thirty-minute break becomes forty-five and the meeting you were feeding stops being a meeting.

It holds. This is the part that separates a good platter from a sad one, and it is all in the build — spread to the edges to seal the bread, wet ingredients in the middle away from the crust, dry leaves. Done properly a platter is as good at two o'clock as it was at ten.

It is also the reason our catering for sandwich platter orders go out later than most kitchens would manage. Sandwiches made at five in the morning for an eleven o'clock meeting have six hours to go wrong, so ours are built as late as the delivery run allows rather than as early as the roster allows.

It suits the occasions nobody plans for. Sandwiches are what you order when the day is not about the food — a long meeting, a training room, or funeral catering, where the last thing anyone needs is a menu to think about.

We take a lot of those calls, and they are always short. Somebody needs food for forty people on Thursday and has neither the time nor the appetite to choose between things. A platter is the right answer precisely because it asks nothing of the person ordering it.

It is the cheapest way to feed a room properly. Per head, nothing else comes close for something that is genuinely a meal rather than a snack. That is why any corporate caterer in Brisbane will tell you the sandwich platter is the order that keeps a budget intact.

Two numbers worth having before you order. Allow one and a half rounds a head for a working lunch and one for a morning tea alongside something else. And order about a third more of the vegetarian than you think you need, because everybody eats it, not only the vegetarians.

Three more things save trouble on the day. Say what time the food is being eaten rather than what time you want it delivered, because those are different problems and only one of them is ours to solve. Ask for the dietary halves to be marked if the room is large, since an unlabelled platter means the gluten free guest simply does not risk it. And if the meeting might run late, take the wrapping off at the last moment rather than the first.

None of this is complicated, which is the whole point of a sandwich platter. It is the order you place when you want the food to be one less thing to think about, and the measure of a good one is that nobody mentions it at all.

Our Suggestions For Sandwiches Catering

Triangle Traditional Sandwiches - By Serves

The standard, and standard for a reason. Soft white and wholemeal, cut into triangles, mixed fillings across the platter so nobody has to hunt. This is the one to order when you do not know the room.

Best Seller Focaccia Sandwiches - By Serves

Focaccia holds more filling and takes heat better than sliced bread, so this is the platter for a longer day or a warmer room. It also looks like more of an occasion, which matters when the lunch is for clients rather than colleagues.

Everything is made by hand in our Fortitude Valley kitchen the morning it goes out. Order by 4pm and it arrives the next day, delivery from $19 across more than 50 Brisbane suburbs, Saturday at the same rate.

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