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Corporate Hog Roast for Arborfield
Planning a hog roast for your team in Arborfield? The roaster comes to your venue, home or workplace and cooks under cover and carve when you’re ready to eat.
- Client and customer events
- Summer team parties
- Staff thank-you lunches
Corporate hog roast in Arborfield
What happens on the day
Here’s how the day typically runs: we arrive, set up under cover and start roasting, the pork cooks slowly for hours, and our chef carves it when you’re ready. In Arborfield, summer evenings stay light until about 9:25pm, which suits a team barbecue-style evening. By late September, sunset is around 7:05pm.
- Tell us where, when, how many and when you eat.
- We confirm the site details and send a price.
- The roast starts early on site.
- Our chef carves and our staff serve on time.
- We tidy up and leave.
How to prepare
- Choose someone to meet us on arrival
- Make sure we can wheel the roaster to the spot
- Measure the narrowest gate or passage
Get a quote
Every staff event is quoted on its own, because numbers, menu, serving time and travel vary. Ask us for a quote for your staff event: fill in our quote form.
Planning help
Corporate hog roast in Arborfield, slow-roasted on site
Workplaces have rules, and we work to them: vehicle access, gas equipment and where we can cook. Tell us what your facilities team needs. We’re often asked to cater project wrap-ups and client hospitality, serving rotisserie chicken, coleslaw and crackling.
Rural businesses around Arborfield can be a long way from anywhere to buy lunch, so a hog roast lunch is welcome. Your quote spells out what’s included: the date, the serving time, the menu and the plates, with no surprises on the day.
Events we cater in Arborfield
There are options for people who don’t eat pork.
People around Arborfield book us for small gatherings and big outdoor days alike. Popular choices:
- Thank-you lunches
- Open days and family days
- Summer team parties
- Launch days
Arborfield sits roughly 36 miles from central London, and we cover it as standard.
Questions to ask before booking
- What crockery is supplied
- How dietary needs are handled
- Travel and any London charges
- Payment terms and cancellation policy
Arborfield: your questions answered
Can you do a hog roast in Pearman's Copse?
Only with permission from the park’s owner, typically the council, and many parks do not allow cooking. Check with them first, and tell us what they say.
Do you come out to small places like Arborfield?
No, we come to small places too. Let us know about access and the cooking spot.
Do you cover Arborfield?
We do. Tell us the venue or postcode and we will check the date.
What comes with the hog roast?
The classic: pork in rolls with stuffing, apple sauce and crackling. Sides and extra meats are listed in your quote.
Can you send documents for facilities?
Requirements vary: pass on your list and we will respond.
Do you provide china?
Plates come as standard. China crockery is available on request and quoted separately.
What happens in bad weather?
We roast under cover, so the food is not affected. Your staff will want somewhere dry to eat.
Can you be flexible on serving time?
Within reason, we can. Give us a contact on the day and we’ll fit around changes.
Should I cook it myself?
Roasting a whole hog yourself is possible, but it takes hours of attention, from setting up and lighting the roaster to carving. A catered hog roast means you can enjoy the day.
A barbecue is the other obvious choice, but someone has to stand at the grill all day. With a hog roast, one roast feeds everyone at once.
Arborfield for staff days and open days
Arborfield is about 3 miles west of Wokingham, in Reading. Arborfield is well within our area for staff events and the places nearby. We cover 34 places across Reading, from the larger towns to small villages.
For colleagues arriving by train, the nearest station is Winnersh station, about 2.5 miles north-east.
We bring hog roasts to staff events all over the RG2 postcode area. From Church Lane, Walden Avenue and Cartershill Lane or anywhere nearby, we can set up and roast there. For staff events just outside Arborfield, we cover Shinfield (2 miles west), Lower Earley (2 miles north), Ryeish Green (2 miles west), Earley (2 miles north) and Whitley Wood (2 miles north-west). We also serve nearby towns such as Caversham (6 miles north-west), Norcot (6 miles north-west), West Reading (5 miles north-west), Tilehurst Within (6 miles north-west), Caversham Heights (6 miles north-west) and Horncastle (6 miles north-west).
A little further out are Wokingham Hospital (3 miles east) and Berkshire Library & Museum of Freemasonry (1.8 miles north-east). Green spaces nearby include South Lake and Sonning Hill.
- Local schools include Bohunt School Wokingham (1.9 miles south-east)
- Local pubs include Swan Inn (0.6 miles south-east)
For planners, venues and organisers
For events on land you do not own, such as a park or field, the landowner needs to agree to cooking and vehicles. Sort that first.
If you are booking for a workplace, check with facilities about gas equipment and vehicle access. We work to the site’s rules.
What a hog roast costs
We do not use a fixed price list, because every staff event is different. What matters most:
- Which meats and sides you choose
- Numbers
- The serving time and how long we are on site
- Access to the cooking area
Most of the cost is the meat, the staff and the time on site. Slow roasting means we are on site for much of the day, which is built into the price.
What we need to know
When you get in touch, please mention:
- Where the event is
- Dietary requirements
- Your menu choices
- Any venue rules
To get a quote, just tell us the date, where the staff event is and roughly how many. A photo of the cooking area helps. Send us your details through our quote form.
Looking after everyone
We give full allergen information for every dish. To help:
- Request gluten-free rolls
- Add a dietary question to the sign-up
- Share the allergen information with the team
- Label the vegetarian and vegan food
At the agreed time, our chef carves and our staff serve, so people get back to work on time.
Salads and coleslaw make it a fuller lunch.
A hog roast or other catering?
Next to street-food vans, carving serves the whole team fast. Numbers make the biggest difference: bigger groups generally cost less per head, because the roaster, staff and travel cost much the same either way.
Why book with us
- Our staff serve and clear
- A clear quote with everything listed
- Halloumi skewers and a vegan option too
- Fresh carving at the serving station
Planning the cooking spot
The roaster needs the right spot, because it cooks outside for several hours, and a little planning goes a long way:
- Level hardstanding or lawn
- Sign-off for outside caterers
- A covered area or canteen for wet weather
If in doubt, send us a picture of the spot and we will advise before you book.
From the roaster
- Spit-roast lamb
- Coleslaw
- Crackling
- Halloumi skewers (V)
- Hog roast rolls
- Rotisserie chicken
- Salads
- Stuffing and apple sauce
- Vegan option (Ve)
Also near Arborfield
More for events in Arborfield
- Slow-roasted on site for hours, outdoors at your event
- Our chef carves the pork, with stuffing, apple sauce and crackling on the side
- Vegetarian and vegan choices, plus lamb or chicken if you like
- Served by our staff at the time you choose, then cleared away