Good & Plenty Catering

This is a difficult review to write, but thankfully our experience seems to be the outlier here. We called about 50 caterers for a 100 person luncheon. We landed on Donna because she was responsive, didn't shirk away from our estimated budget, and helped us create a menu that frankly felt very indulgent. Throughout our planning, Donna was responsive, but she was also quite disorganized. She doesn't create an official contract so there's nothing to sign between two parties which resulted in a lot of back and forth and having to remind her of conversations we'd already had. When she sent over a payment request for a deposit, she got very confused and sent us a receipt for a different customer - and then called us panicked that she couldn't find our deposit and couldn't remember which customer had sent what. Throughout the year, Donna had multiple issues with her email not working which would result in her calling us panicked that we may have not received her messages; and in the final weeks before our event she had cell phone issues that she seemed confused about how to address with her phone carrier. I really was naive and thought this might all add up to a quirky older lady that had a big, fun personality. A few days before our event, Donna sent us our final invoice, which was just an extremely blurry photo she'd taken that could not be easily read. We immediately notified her of this and she responded by forwarding the same email from her partner's email with the same blurry photo attached. The email that went along with the invoice was truly the most confusing part of this entire interaction: Donna went on a rant about how she was doing us a lot of favors by under-charging us for our event and how she even made a dish for us for free. She added that we should tip her to make up for this pricing discrepancy. This seemed to all add up to Donna that she could take advantage of us on the day of our event. On the day of our event, Donna was quite rude to our Temple employees and even more rude to the (amazing) high school students that work these luncheons often and whom we'd hired to help us with our luncheon. Donna argued with the Temple manager with the way the Temple employees set up the luncheon tables, she argued and bossed around our student helpers; and she again reminded us that she was doing us a favor. In all the talks about our numbers, Donna decided (without discussing with us) not to bring food for 100; instead she brought food for 50 because she estimated that the kids would not eat as much as the adults, if at all. However, we ran out of food! The lox and cream cheese were gone in the first 10 minutes. Sorry, but when 45 teens are sitting through a 2 hour service, they are going to be hungry. Donna did not account for this, but still charged us the full price for 100 people. Finally, although we'd agreed that Donna would bring her items in foil containers for easy clean up, she instead put her food in containers that she wanted back. And although she was scheduled to come at 2pm to come pick up those items, she came instead at 1:15pm and (unbeknownst to me) demanded that our teen helpers wash all her items at that time. I had to come to the back room to see where my helpers were once I noticed them missing and Donna was rudely barking at them to wash her items faster. When she asked me how the food was, I told her that the food ran out in the first 10 minutes. She replied that it only ran out because I "didn't hire real staff." She insisted that had we had real staff that weren't students or Temple staff, that they would have policed how much people were taking at the buffet table. I mean, Donna had two small tubs of cream cheese for 100 people. Insulting Temple staff who man these luncheons every week, and taking employees who aren't on your pay roll to do your cleaning, is not...well...kosher.

Donna and company did a great job on food for our wedding reception. We had a wedding party of a tad more than 50 people, and basically it was our first rodeo as couple. Donna did a great job with recommendations for food. The food was more than adequate and as the eponymous Good and Plenty implies it was. This was the first time we've sprung for paid catering and I personally thought was well worth it. Their servers were un-intrusive and always seemed to be there when you needed to have a bit to eat, and our guests were noting but complimentary about the party and service. And the venue was spotless by the time they departed. Everyone had a great time.

I booked Donna with Good and Plenty Catering for my work event for 40 guest. From the first reach out to the end result was seamless. Donna brought the trays of assorted appetizers to us for drop off . Everyone loved the food especially the chicken skewers , chicken purses and spanakopitas. Thank you for a fantastic spread.

TLDR: Great catering for my company dinner. I reached out to Donna to see if she might be able to cater my company dinner at my house for 15 people. She was super easy to work with and helped me navigate her rather large menu. As planned, she arrived on time with all the food well prepared. The team loved it. Thanks for a great meal, well priced and with fantastic customer service.

I found Good and Plenty Catering online and hired Donna to cater for my mother's 90th birthday. It was outside during the sweltering heat wave this past weekend, and they did an amazing job getting the food prepared and drinks out in spite of the heat. We had plenty of elderly guests that needed extra help, and Donna and her crew were totally up to the task. I highly recommend her and I plan to call her next time I need a caterer.

Used Good and Plenty catering for my husband's 90th birthday party. Donna was incredibly helpful every step of the way. Food was delicious and beautifuly presented.

Good and Plenty Catering is EXCELLENT! The food was beautifully displayed and everything was absolutely delicious!! Donna is a delight to work with. She advised me on the menu and amount of food, and even dropped off some sternos when we forgot them.She goes over and above to help her clients, and her delicious food and professionalism lend to making an event a success!Thank you, Donna, and Good and Plenty Catering!!

This is the second time I've used Good and Plenty Catering, and I've been happy both times. The food is delicious, well-presented, and Donna and her staff are responsive and respectful. I would highly recommend her.

We recently had Donna with Good and Plenty cater my Mom's Celebration of Life and it was a pleasure to work with her. She was responsive, full of good ideas, on Schedule and well organized. Her Food was great, she even recreated my Mom's German Potatoe Salad! She was not inexpensive but reasonably priced, I would hire her again in a second!

I am not used to writing reviews but this is an exception I wanted to have a small event for 50 guests and didn't know where or how to begin a friend suggested I call a company they used called Good and Plenty catering I called and spoke to Donna who immediately said she would take care of everything she prepared the meal I asked for arranged rental and provided a small staff the event was a great success the food was delicious I will use the company Good and Plenty catering again