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Cincinnati & Dayton, Ohio

Catering

In Cincinnati & Dayton: Pricing lands in the local range shown at the top of this section; the details that move the number are staffing ratio, service charge, and which state's tax applies. Ohio caterers typically add an eighteen to twenty-two percent service charge on top of the food quote, and Ohio sales tax applies to catering -- the exact rate varies by county, so confirm the line on the estimate rather than guessing at it. On the Kentucky side of the river the sales tax treatment is different again; ask the caterer to show tax as its own line so you can see what is being applied and where. A wedding at an Indiana venue in Lawrenceburg is a third tax regime. Winter weddings raise a specific question about hot-hold timing between a kitchen and a venue that may be twenty minutes' drive across town in cold weather; ask how the caterer manages it, and ask whether the venue has a warming kitchen at all, because a plated dinner without one is a harder job than the quote may suggest.

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