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Los Angeles, California

Catering

In Los Angeles: Expect $90 to $275 a head before the service charge and before tax, and treat those two as part of the price rather than a footnote, because on a quote here they move the total more than the menu does. This is a region where you can genuinely eat well at either end of that range, and where a caterer's real skill often shows in how they handle a site with no kitchen at all: an estate, a rooftop, a canyon property. Ask what the staffing count actually is, whether it changes for plated service, and what the kitchen build-out costs when there is nothing to build on. Ask how far they travel and what that adds. Share every dietary requirement at the tasting rather than after, because a menu that has already been costed is expensive to reopen.

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