{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Bridal BFF","title":"Squid Ink Oreos and Grandma's Deviled Eggs","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1904,"description":"Mikayla sits down with Alyssa and Jenny from Roots Catering, chef driven, thirteen years old, and one of the first food trucks in Charlotte. They talk about how a family recipe or a whole culture becomes a wedding menu, and what the process actually looks like from discovery call to tasting.\n\nCheck your date at The Lumen House: https://thelumenhouseevents.com/inquiry?utm_source=bridal-bff&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=season-1&utm_content=ep04\n\nCHAPTERS\n\n00:00 Meet Alyssa and Jenny of Roots Catering\n02:34 What people outside catering don't realize\n06:54 The emotional weight of the job\n11:49 Discovery call to tasting to wedding day\n18:03 Cooking off site, and what that rules out\n21:31 Staffing, and what happens on site\n26:26 What this venue makes possible for a caterer\n\nYou can taste the food before you commit, so use that. Bring real detail on a family recipe, because the more specific you are the closer they get. Ask early about anything fried or finished at the last second, since off-site kitchens have limits. Plan roughly one staff member per twenty guests for stations. And you are not locked in after the first proposal. Roots is on our caterer list, so ask for the full list when you tour and book a tasting before you decide.\n\n---\n\nBridal BFF comes from The Lumen House, a wedding venue just outside Charlotte. Each week, owner Britt Loukos and some of the top experts in the wedding industry tell you what they'd tell a friend over coffee: how the money works, what to ask before you sign anything, and the parts of planning nobody warns you about.\n\nNew episodes every Wednesday.\n\nthelumenhouseevents.com\n\nInstagram: @thelumenhouseevents\n\n#charlottewedding #northcarolinawedding #weddingvenue #weddingplanning #engaged #weddingcatering","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/5StWOSeWeyGpsP89s-HRl_khejzP_E8PXkcD-zW31Ag/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9hMjdj/YjM4YzJhMDEwNzM4/NWFiMzU4ZTIzNjFm/N2JhOC5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}