Baker's Insurance! My hall won't let us bring in a cake from outside!
Original post by nsgraham
This is so funny!
My family always, at weddings, serves a cake, called black cake - it's the only tradition we do. Jamaican thing, everyone expects it.
Well, I'm getting married kosher, and there was a whole halabaloo about the cake not being kosher, it can't be served there, the rabbi won't let us bring in anything from outside. My grandmother is pissed, but we decide we'll serve the cake to people as they're leaving.
So I just call my hall, and it turns out that we can't have the cake anyway, kosher or not -we're not a bakery, so we can't get BAKER'S INSURANCE!!!
We can display it, but not serve it. And even if we could serve it, each slice would have a cutting fee. But we can't. That's actually a big load off of my shoulders.
MCDO15
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is this Black Rum Cake? I love that stuff!!
september2004
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WTF
Jo Ann
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I think this whole thing is so silly... When we went to book our hall it happened that the banquet manager found out that my FH is in the Seafood business. He TOLD us that if we wanted we could bring all the seafood in and they will charge flat fee to prepare to food for our cocktail hour. We don' t think that we are going to do it, it is just going to be too much extra running around for FH and his boss to get everything and bring it to them and honeslty it will probally end up costing us the same thing.
But I just thought it was very werid that they would want to take the chance with seafood where honestly there is a larger chance of someone getting sick. I didnt think they would want to have such a liability. Who knows they may ask us to sign a wavier.... this is the same hall that is making me sign a wavier since my florist is doing my flowers as a side job and dosnt have the 1mil insurance policy. Their afraid of the flowers but not of the Seafood?? Go figure
nsgraham
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Posted by MCDO15
is this Black Rum Cake? I love that stuff!!
Yup! It's good stuff.
She's totally gonna break out in hives.
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I dont know if you'll be able to display it, with the cutting fee and all, but your best bet may be to give it out as your favor. It's actually tradition that the 'groom's' cake be given for people to take home. It's unfortunate that your hall can't bend on this, it just seems so stupid to me.
MCDO15
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how much would it cost to do as a favor? (box, maybe a string to warp it in?)
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I've never heard of Baker's insurance, but it makes sense. I have heard of cutting/serving fees. I'm not sure what they are for. I guess so they don't loose business by not providing the cake, but in your case they are doing that anyway. I don't know if they charge that in a case where you don't have the option of getting the food from the hall.
I've also herd of corkage fees, if you bring in your own wine, they charge you to open it!
