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DINNER PROCEDURES
The Owners’s often eat separately from their kids. However, occasionally they will eat together – please ask the nanny in advance. If they are eating together – the nanny will also eat on the bridge deck aft with them should the kids be eating with the adults.
Should the kids eat separately, they usually will eat around 5.30-6.00. Again, please allow for a seat for the nanny between the two boys.
The chefs in the past have given the adults a plated menu for dinner, however with a choice of two for starters and mains. Ensure you get the guests orders in time for the chefs to prep.
This can be done easily during cocktail hour, which usually happens around 7pm. Please confirm times and location – sometimes in the sky lobby (clear coffee table) sometimes on the bridge deck aft. And rarely in the Main Salon. Always inform chefs to have canapés ready for 7pm. We also sometimes, add some other snacks on the table (bar snacks, chips, nuts, etc. etc.). We usually keep open bottles of white or rose or champagne, as guests will often only want one or two glasses. Please have spare glasses ready in pantry. Also, please have a round of cocktails ready to place out with canapés. Mr Owners loves his passion fruit martini’s. But feel free to mix it up every night. Occasionally – he will inform you what he would like prepared.
During canapés, please show Mr Owners the wine menu – he likes to choose a red and white every night before dinner. If it is a full house – they can easily get through 5 bottles of each – so have these pulled from the bilge, ready.
Mr Owners likes to seat the guests when the chefs are close to ready – so always give him the nod, or let him know the chefs are 5 min out. On rare occasions, they will ask for name place cards for the table – but usually Owner likes to seat everyone.
Please offer Owner red or white wine to start – he will taste, then pour women first. And finish with him. Please keep his glass topped up at all times – don’t let it go low.
We usually bring out desert for everyone; however, Mr Owners will usually not eat his. He sometimes, requests a cheese platter, and is fond of blue cheese – and any other “smelly” / aged cheese.
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