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Hosting in a sukkah
A week of meals in a sukkah is a different job from a week of meals in a kitchen. The space is smaller, the light is different, the weather decides the plan, and the guests arrive and leave in whatever pattern the evening has taken. A crew that has never hosted in a sukkah tends to plan for a dining room.
Our crews are used to it. The setup accounts for the space, the serving accounts for guests moving between the house and the sukkah, and the kitchen side still works the way it does indoors — because the food is prepared before Shabbos and held with a blech, exactly as it would be anywhere else.
- Waiters and kitchen help for meals served in the sukkah
- Service staff for the nights when the family hosts larger groups
- Bartenders for the evening, including Simchat Torah
- A mashgiach on request where the venue requires supervision
Simchat Torah
Simchat Torah is the celebration at the end of the festival, and it is the part that tends to be the least predictable. The dancing, the circle, the food appearing and disappearing — a good crew keeps the food moving through it rather than trying to hold the room still.
Our staff are briefed to expect that. They know the evening is for the family and the guests, and their job is to keep the food and the drinks available while that happens rather than to manage the crowd.
Eruv considerations and outdoor setups
An outdoor event on Shabbos has a practical question attached to it: what is carried, when, and by whom. The eruv status of the area affects what our crews can do on the day, and it is the kind of detail that has to be settled with the venue and with your own mashgiach before the event rather than during it.
We do not give halachic guidance here — confirm the specifics with your rabbi or mashgiach — but we will build the schedule around what they tell you, and our crews will work to it. Where an event can be planned so the work falls outside Shabbos entirely, that is the cleaner plan and we will say so.
Booking Succos and Simchat Torah
Succos bookings are often a week or more of evening work rather than a single event, so we quote them as a package with the nights itemised. That way you can see the cost per night and adjust a night if the guest list changes.
Six to eight weeks is the target for Succos, and earlier for a package covering the whole festival. If your family is hosting several nights, tell us which ones and we will build the quote around them.
What to tell us
The dates you are hosting, whether the meals are at home or at a venue, the guest list for each night, whether you have a caterer, and any instruction your mashgiach has already given you about the setup. That last point saves a lot of time, because the crew can be briefed on it from the start.
We cover Lakewood and the surrounding radius: Brick, Toms River, Jackson and Howell, and we work in sukkahs, backyards, homes and halls without exception.