How to Create a Burger Bar for Your Next Event

For those backyard celebrations, holiday parties, and many other indoor and outdoor events, a burger bar may be something that you’ve been wanting to try. In addition to preparing your own build-your-own burger buffet, your favorite restaurant near you may also offer burger bar catering. Below, learn more about creating an enticing burger bar and why catering this interactive meal might be a great choice for your next event!

Tips for Creating Homemade or Catered Burger Bars

A burger bar offers your guests a dining experience that’s fun and invites their customization. As you assemble your guest list and then start planning the food or reviewing potential catering menus, you may have many ideas to consider in creating your burger bar. To help you achieve a memorable and mouthwatering burger bar experience for your next event, here are three key tips:

Include a wide variety of options!

One benefit of choosing a DIY menu idea like a burger bar is that guests can make the dishes that they will truly enjoy. To ensure that this goal is achieved, include an assortment of burger toppings. In addition to many different veggies and specialty condiments like Freddy’s Famous Jalapeño Fry Sauce® or one of these burger sauce ideas from Serious Eats, you might also offer several different cheeses. One final way to enhance your burger bar experience and help ensure that various dietary considerations are accounted for is to consider providing multiple bun and patty choices.

Carefully consider how to set up your event space.

Whether catered or homemade, with a burger bar, people are not just going to be moving around to pick up items but constructing them during this process. Therefore, the flow and layout of your serving and seating tables matters. For this buffet-style service, these tips from The Kitchn may further help with your planning!

Think about your servingware needs for both the burger bar itself and your guests.

Setting up a burger bar requires many platters, bowls, tongs, serving spoons and other accessories. Make sure to think about what you’ll need for this type of dining experience and confirm who will provide it (if catered). For example, one burger bar catering company may provide the serving containers but not the serving spoons, napkins and utensils, while another might include everything for the event, from plates and tablecloths to serving utensils and chafing dishes. Since guests will also be more involved in the food assembly process, try to minimize what they’ll have to carry while creating their burgers.

4 Reasons to Choose Burger Bar Catering vs. a DIY Approach

By choosing burgers for your event, you’ve already picked a crowd-pleasing and versatile food. If you are debating between using catering services for your event or doing all of the work yourself, here are four reasons why burger bar catering may be your best option!

1. Burger bar catering saves you time before, during and after the event. By choosing this option, you free yourself from things like grocery shopping, food preparation while the party is in progress, and all of the kitchen clean-up that typically follows it.

2. Instead of having to focus on keeping the grill going and churning out burgers, you can actually spend time with your guests. Once you pick up your burger catering order or have it delivered directly to you, you may have a few organizational things to take care of, but the food will be set.

3. With a catered burger bar, you can reduce your worries about having enough food for your guests or dealing with excessive leftovers, like a box of burgers or bottles of condiments that no one in your household eats. Especially if you know or can collect information about your guests preferences in advance, this knowledge will help you further select the burger catering company that will best serve the needs of your particular guests.

4. Feeding larger groups of people can present a number of challenges (and often a substantial amount of stress!). However, burger bar catering services are in the business of producing significant quantities of food and tailoring their provisions to groups of all sizes. If you are looking for convenience, consistency and quality when it comes to your food, working with a professional catering company may be your best bet!

Whether it is of your own design or catered, a burger bar is sure to make your next event stand out! If you are looking for burger bar catering, Freddy’s offers two different burger bars and several individual bagged lunches featuring our most popular steakburgers. Check out our catering menu today or contact us with any questions!