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Corporate Hog Roast for The Sands
Corporate hog roast in The Sands: a whole hog slow-roasted on site, carved to order and served in soft rolls with crackling.
- End-of-project celebrations
- Client hospitality
- Thank-you lunches
Corporate hog roast in The Sands
Your questions about a hog roast for your team in The Sands
How far is The Sands from London?
About 34 miles from central London.
Can you do a hog roast in Crooksbury Hill?
Only with permission from the park’s owner, typically the council, and many parks do not allow cooking. Ask them first, and tell us what they say.
How does payment work for businesses?
Tell us what your accounts team needs when you enquire, and we will confirm how booking and payment work.
Will there be enough to go round?
The roast is chosen to suit how many you are feeding, so a good estimate matters. We’ll confirm the menu in the quote.
How much will it be?
Numbers, menu and travel decide the price. Tell us your date and we will send a price.
Can you work to our lunch time?
Yes. We time the roast to be ready and serve quickly. Rolls keep service quick.
When do you start roasting?
A whole hog roasts for several hours, which is why we arrive hours ahead. We plan the timings from when you want to eat.
Where on site can you cook?
Most car parks and yards are fine, given level ground and clearance.
About our corporate hog roast in The Sands
In The Sands, we cater retirements, openings and long-service celebrations, as a thank-you to the team. Whether it is team days and away days and long-service celebrations, we will put together a menu of rotisserie chicken, coleslaw and spit-roast lamb and more.
At country workplaces around The Sands, a hog roast brings a hot lunch to wherever the team is. Tell us about access. We plan the timings around your day, working back from when you want to eat, so the food is ready at the right moment.
Business events near The Sands
The Sands is about 2 miles east of Farnham, in Surrey. We cover staff events in The Sands, as well as the surrounding area. The Sands is one of 395 places in Surrey where we cater. Our nearest city page is Guildford, about 8 miles away.
Central London is about 34 miles from The Sands, well within our area. Historic houses near The Sands include Farnham Castle (2.8 miles west) and Wanborough Manor (3.6 miles north-east). For a client event at a historic house, ask early about rules for outside caterers. With the Surrey Hills National Landscape within about 7 miles, rural team days are easy to arrange.
Staff events anywhere in GU10 start with an outdoor spot for the roaster. Streets in the area include The Green, Binton Lane and Botany Hill, and a staff event on any of them works with a garden, drive or yard for the roaster. Neighbouring places where we cater staff events include Runfold (1 mile west), Sandy Cross (1 mile north), Compton (1 mile west), Seale (1 mile north-east) and Tongham (2 miles north). We also serve nearby towns such as Guildford (8 miles east), Woking (10 miles north-east), Camberley (9 miles north), Frimley (7 miles north), Haslemere (9 miles south) and Cranleigh (12 miles south-east).
Nearby you’ll also find Seale and Tongham (0.9 miles north-east) and Ash Museum (2.8 miles north). The countryside around The Sands includes Culverswell Hill and Runfold Wood.
What happens on the day
We take care of everything from the first hour of roasting to clearing away, so you can get on with your staff event in The Sands. Evening staff events in The Sands need light after sunset: sunset ranges from about 9:20pm in June to 3:55pm in December.
- Get in touch with the basics.
- We check with facilities and quote.
- We arrive and set up under cover.
- We carve and serve quickly.
- We leave the site clean.
Before we arrive
- Make sure the cooking area is away from walls, tents and trees
- Give us final numbers a week or so before
- Ensure we can wheel the roaster to the spot
How to get a price
It’s easy to get a price: tell us when, where, how many and what time you’d like to eat. You will get a clear quote listing what’s included. Fill in our quote form.
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A hog roast compared with other options
Compared with individual food vans, a hog roast feeds plenty of people quickly from one roast. 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.
Why The Sands hosts choose us
- No surprises: everything in writing
- We bring everything to cook and serve
- Choices for people who don’t eat pork
- Staff to serve, so you don’t have to
Read how we price and our hog roast cost guide.
Prices and what affects them
We don’t use a fixed price list, since every event is different. What matters most:
- How many people are eating
- Whether you want china
- Menu choices and extras
- Distance from us
Distance is part of the price: we include travel in the quote. Tell us the exact address so the quote is accurate.
Details that help
Good details mean a good quote. Useful details:
- The venue or postcode
- A photo of the cooking area
- Dietary requirements
- Roughly how many people
Every staff event is quoted on its own, based on numbers, menu, timings and distance. Tell us about your staff event for a quote: use our quote form.
Catered or do it yourself?
You could go for a cold buffet, but hot, freshly carved roast pork is a different experience, especially outdoors.
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.
Who books corporate hog roast in The Sands?
You do not need a staff kitchen, just an outdoor spot.
Lots of different events suit a hog roast. Typical bookings include:
- New premises openings
- Milestone celebrations
- Family fun days
- Client and customer events
For staff and visitors coming by train, Farnham station is about 2.3 miles away.
What your quote should include
- What the cooking area needs: space, cover and access
- When payments are due and what happens if plans change
- What crockery is supplied
- Arrival time and how long the roast needs
Space, access and the venue
The right spot for the roaster makes everything easier. Look for:
- Access through the site gates
- Approval from facilities for gas equipment
- Somewhere for staff to eat if it rains
If in doubt, send us a picture of the spot and we’ll advise.
From the roaster
- Stuffing and apple sauce
- Crackling
- Coleslaw
- Hog roast rolls
- Halloumi skewers (V)
- Rotisserie chicken
- Salads
- Vegan option (Ve)
- Spit-roast lamb
A closer look at the menu
Salads, potatoes and coleslaw
Sides include salads, coleslaw, new potatoes and roast or jacket potatoes, to suit your event.
Rotisserie chicken
Chicken from the rotisserie gives people a non-pork choice, turned until the skin is golden.
Also near The Sands
Also in The Sands
Looking after everyone
A little planning helps everyone eat safely. A few tips:
- Remember that stuffing normally contains gluten
- Add a dietary question to the sign-up
- Tell us about vegetarians and vegans
- Request gluten-free rolls
Afterwards we tidy up, and leave the site clean.
Add sides for a bigger lunch.
- Roasted on site for several hours, outdoors under cover
- Our chef carves the pork, with stuffing, apple sauce and crackling on the side
- Not just pork: spit-roast lamb, chicken and vegetarian choices
- Served when you’re ready, and we tidy the serving area afterwards