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Corporate Hog Roast for Garlinge Green
Planning a hog roast for your team in Garlinge Green? The roaster comes to your venue, home or workplace and cooks under cover and carve when you’re ready to eat.
- Customer days
- Family fun days
- Staff summer days
Corporate hog roast in Garlinge Green
Step by step
Service is quick once we start carving: the chef carves and the team serves, with the sides served alongside. When everyone has eaten, we clear up and leave the spot tidy. If your staff event in Garlinge Green runs into the evening, check the light: about 9:15pm in June, 7:00pm in late September and 3:50pm in December.
- 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 pack away and go.
How to prepare
- Choose a level, open spot outdoors for the roaster
- Make sure the cooking area is away from walls, tents and trees
- Have a covered area for eating in case of rain
Get a quote
Planning ahead? Popular dates fill up early, especially summer Saturdays and December Fridays. Tell us your date and we’ll check it: fill in our quote form.
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Corporate hog roast in Garlinge Green, carved to order
Lunch breaks are often fixed, so we plan the roast to be ready on time. Rolls are the quickest way to serve. We’re often asked to cater site open days and summer team parties, with hog roast rolls, rotisserie chicken and coleslaw.
Near Garlinge Green, workplaces can be far from shops, which makes a hog roast a real treat. The hog is roasted on site at your staff event, low and slow, for hours, and carved only when you’re ready to eat.
Diets, allergies and alternatives
Tell us about dietary needs early and we will help. Tips:
- Request gluten-free rolls
- Plan separately for anyone who needs halal food
- Keep alternatives clearly labelled
- Remember that stuffing normally contains gluten
Give us a contact on site for the day, so we can find you quickly.
Tell us about branding or theming for open days.
Is a hog roast right for your staff event?
Next to taking the team out, a hog roast is easier to organise and keeps people together. Numbers make the biggest difference: the price per head normally falls as numbers rise, since much of the cost is fixed.
What you get with us
- We bring everything to cook and serve
- Carved by our chef in front of your staff
- Served at the time you choose
- Slow-roasted at your venue, not reheated
See how we price or what a hog roast costs.
For planners, venues and organisers
Many venues set rules for outside caterers, including where gas cooking is allowed. Ask early, and pass on anything they need from us.
If you’re organising for someone else, such as a wedding planner, an office manager or a fête committee, tell us who our contact on the day will be. We’ll keep everyone in the loop.
What the cooking area needs
It is worth planning the cooking area in advance. We look for:
- A covered area or canteen for wet weather
- Sign-off for outside caterers
- A contact on site
If you’re unsure, send a picture of the space and the way in, and we’ll say what we think.
On the menu in Garlinge Green
- Vegan option (Ve)
- Crackling
- Spit-roast lamb
- Rotisserie chicken
- Halloumi skewers (V)
- Coleslaw
- Stuffing and apple sauce
- Salads
- Hog roast rolls
How we price a hog roast for your team
The price comes down to:
- The number of people
- The serving time and how long we’re on site
- Crockery choices
- Menu choices and extras
What you pay covers the meat, the chef and staff, and hours of roasting. A long, slow roast means an early start, which is built into the price.
Details that help
When you enquire, please mention:
- Your date and serving time
- Where the roaster could go, ideally with a picture
- Roughly how many people
- Any extras, such as lamb, chicken or china
A quote from us sets out the menu, timings, staffing and what’s included, so you can compare caterers fairly. Use our quote form.
Questions from Garlinge Green
Do you come out to small places like Garlinge Green?
Not at all. We cater in villages and hamlets as well as towns. Let us know about access and the cooking spot.
Which station is closest to Garlinge Green?
The closest is Chartham station, roughly 1.8 miles away.
What comes with the hog roast?
Rolls with roast pork, stuffing, apple sauce and crackling. You can add lamb, chicken, vegetarian and vegan options, salads, coleslaw and potatoes.
What happens after service?
We pack everything away after service, and we take our equipment with us.
What about staff who do not eat pork?
Add lamb, chicken, halloumi and vegetable skewers or a vegan option. We don’t offer halal meat.
How much does a hog roast cost?
Numbers, menu and travel decide the price. Send us the details and we’ll quote.
Do you serve the food?
We carve and serve for you, and we clear up when service is finished.
How big a hog will we need?
We size the roast to your numbers, so a good estimate matters. We will confirm the menu in the quote.
Garlinge Green for staff days and open days
Garlinge Green is about 4 miles south-west of Canterbury, in Kent. From village halls to gardens and fields, staff events around Garlinge Green suit a hog roast. We cover all 922 towns and villages in Kent.
Garlinge Green sits roughly 52 miles from central London, well within our area. The Kent Downs National Landscape is within about 6 miles, which suits team days in the countryside.
Staff events anywhere in CT4 start with an outdoor spot for the roaster and a serving time. Neighbouring places where we cater staff events include Petham (1 mile south-east), Shalmsford Street (1 mile north), Mystole (1 mile north-west), Chartham (2 miles north) and Anvil Green (2 miles south). Larger places within reach include Ashford (9 miles south-west), Canterbury (4 miles north-east), Dover (13 miles south-east), Sittingbourne (15 miles north-west), Folkestone (12 miles south-east) and Whitstable (8 miles north).
Nearby you will also find Whitefriars Shopping Centre (3.9 miles north-east) and Kent and Canterbury Hospital (3.5 miles north-east). Green spaces nearby include Blean Woods RSPB Reserve.
What comes off the roaster
Vegan burger or sausage (Ve)
Vegan staff can have a vegan burger or sausage, so nobody misses out.
Spit-roast lamb
With lamb as well, there are two roasts to choose from, which works well for larger groups.
Full catering or machine hire?
Roasting a whole hog yourself is possible, but it takes hours of attention, from early set-up to carving at the end. A catered hog roast means you can enjoy the day.
Timing is the tricky part of roasting your own: a whole hog takes hours, and it needs to be cooked through safely. If you’d rather not worry about it, let us cook.
Also near Garlinge Green
More for events in Garlinge Green
- Cooked where you are, slowly, over several hours outdoors
- Carved to order by our chef, with stuffing, apple sauce and crackling
- Vegetarian and vegan choices, plus lamb or chicken if you like
- Staff to serve at the agreed time, then clear away