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Enjoy Your Own Party By Hiring Event Staff

October 28, 2019

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Wedding season is winding down, and we are gearing up for house party season! Now, we aren’t talking about the kind of house parties you had in college. We’re talking about a more refined, private party, and how you can take it to the next level by hiring event staff or bartenders. 

We all know how stressful hosting can be—so many details, so little time! If you are already offering up your home for an event, why not ease the burden a bit? Whether you are planning family gatherings, a corporate holiday party, a private fundraiser, or an engagement party—hiring a few event professionals can help everything run smoothly. It also frees you up to actually enjoy your event!  

Here are the top ways event staff or bartenders can help you enjoy your private party. 

Help with Event Setup 

Event staff are your go-to helpers for party setup and management. We can install decor, set up tables and place settings, and help manage your other vendors. We’ll take care of the details, freeing you up to engage and have fun with your guests. 

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Serve Food Efficiently 

Planning a lovely cocktail party? Enhance the experience with one or more servers offering passed hors-d’oeuvres to your guests. Servers can also support a seated dinner or help set up for a buffet-style meal. Servers keep you out of the kitchen and bring a whole new level of class to your event. 

Offer Specialty Cocktails 

Add a unique touch to your event by offering a specialty cocktail, mixed and served by a professional bartender no less. Your guests will appreciate the delicious beverage without the hassle of making it themselves.

Ensure a Safe Drinking Environment

When you are hosting a private event and offering alcohol, you take on liability for the actions of your guests. Protect yourself by outsourcing to a licensed, insured bartender who will maintain a safe drinking environment and prevent over-consumption. Party on the Rocks is covered by a $1 million liability insurance policy and only hires professionally licensed bartenders. 

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Avoid the Cleanup 

After planning and hosting an event, we know that the last thing you want to do is deal with the cleanup. Event staff can do the dishes, take out the trash, and everything in-between. We work behind the scenes keeping everything running. At the end of the night, you won’t even be able to tell you had a party!

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If you’re ready to elevate the experience of your next event, visit our website to submit a booking request! We offer competitive bartending and event staffing services. Party on the Rocks is also pleased to be able to supply the liquor for your event. Contact us to learn more!

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How to Rock your next Corporate Happy Hour

June 12, 2019

Companies everywhere are realizing the importance of happy hours for maintaining employee happiness, strengthening collaboration, and creating an intentional office culture. From young startups to large firms, monthly or weekly happy hours have become a staple in the workplace.

If the thought of planning a company happy hour sounds overwhelming, hiring outside support might be right for you. Our corporate clients love the fact that we can offer a full-service happy hour – we bring all of the supplies, serve throughout, and take care of the cleanup! Knowing that we have the details taken care of makes it easy for employees to relax and engage with their co-workers.

Whether or not you do-it-yourself or hire bartending or event support, these tips will help you rock your next company happy hour.

Plan a Recurring Happy Hour

Build employee excitement and expectation by hosting a recurring happy hour. A weekly schedule is a great way to bake team bonding into your company culture. If weekly sounds too frequent, try bi-weekly or monthly. Whatever frequency you decide, keeping the schedule consistent will help employees plan for and look forward to each event.

Mix up the beverage options

Keep your events interesting by offering different selections for each event. We like to rotate a selection of local beer and wines so that you have something new to try each week.

Plan a themed event

Any good happy hour has two key items: appetizers and drinks. Pair these together to make a fun theme for each event, like a margarita and taco bar. Another option is to plan your happy hour around staff birthdays, and let the birthday person pick their favorite drink and food! You can even add team building activities to go with each theme.

Hire a licensed bartender

Depending on your office culture, having alcohol in the workplace may make some employers uneasy. Hiring a licensed and insured bartender to serve alcohol is a great way to ensure that all legal requirements are being met and that you are maintaining a safe and responsible environment.

Need more tips for your next happy hour? Contact us to see how Party on the Rocks can support your corporate events.

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3 Perks of Hiring Event Staff for Corporate Events

November 30, 2018

 

Every meeting planner knows how helpful it is to have an extra set of hands. When you’re managing multiple vendors, setting up the space, tracking down speakers, and keeping track of a hundred other details –  having people to step in and get things done is huge. 

Whether you’re a small business with a single person in charge of planning events or a large company with a full events team, hiring event staff for day-of support can be the difference between a relaxed and a chaotic event. We’ve gathered the top three reasons to consider hiring event staff to help your corporate event run smoothly.

1. Jack of all trades

Event staff are experts at managing details, have a wide-range of skills, and are multitasking aficionados. That means they can jump in whenever and wherever you need them – from setting up the space, helping the caterers distribute food, doing dishes, and even taking out the trash. They are your extra set of hands (and eyes) and help make sure all the details are taken care of.

2. Integrate seamlessly with other vendors

Have you ever wished you could be in multiple places at once? Especially when the caterer needs someone to set place settings and fill water glasses, the photographer needs a run through on timing, and the chairs and tables were delivered, but no one has set them up? Event staff to the rescue. They can be the “glue” that holds your event together by working with all your other vendors, leaving you to manage the big picture.

 

 

3. Manage the bar

The bar is usually the hot spot of an event. Hiring a bartending service will keep your event professional and running smoothly. Make sure your bartender is licensed and insured. Hiring a bartending service with a liquor license, like Party on the Rocks, means they can also provide the alcohol for your event. This means one less detail for you to worry about.

 

 

At the Northwest Events Show this fall we met over 2,500 of the top meeting and event professionals in the Pacific Northwest, with services specially designed for corporate settings. Take advantage of these great resources to help your next corporate event go off without a hitch!

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It was a pleasure to work with Josh. He was knowledgeable, professional yet social, and provided high quality service. He also was willing to go above and beyond to assist in the set up and clean-up of our event. I look forward to future events with Party on the Rocks and hope that we can request for Josh specifically for future events!

- Stephanie A., Corporate Client

I had the honor of working with Party on the Rocks at a wedding recently and they are great! There were 300+ guests, and they were able to serve everyone quickly and efficiently. They arrived on time, handled all of the set up the bar areas, and were ready to go when the guests starting arriving. They were really accommodating during planning, quick to respond and really knew all of the details for the day. I'm excited to see such a great new bartending service in the area, and look forward to working with them again!

- Candi B.

Party on the Rocks truly rocks. They were referred by our Day of coordinator and I'm so happy that she did. I can't express how hard this team works and also their level of customer service. Truly professional and I love the family feel. We had a great bartender and two servers. So accommodating and considerate. I would definitely recommended them to anyone.

- Desiree

We hired Party on the Rocks to provide setup, tear down, and server service for my daughter's wedding. Claire and her team were awesome. They were super friendly, observant, and provided spot-on service for our guests. Plates, glassware, etc. were picked up in a timely fashion, and they even went above and beyond and provided beverage service for my 87-year-old mother who couldn't stand in line at the bar! I would highly recommend Party on the Rocks and would hire them again! Thank you Claire and team!

- Jeannie C.

I cannot more highly recommend this event company! They were easy to work with scheduling and everything went smoothly. Claire was amazing and no less than a dozen guests commented to me how awesome she was and very, very helpful. Thanks Party on the Rocks!!!

- Russell J.

These guys are the real deal. We worked together for a wedding and we were thrown tons of curve balls! But these guys rolled with all of the challenges with a smile on their face. Definitely recommend!!!

- Priscilla P.

I worked with Party On the Rocks recently and their bartender KaDeana did such an amazing job. Guests were commenting on how amazing the drinks were, and the clients were so impressed with how clean everything was throughout the night!!

- Torry W.

Claire and her team were so awesome. We hired Party on the Rocks to provide set up, tear down, and serving for my daughter's wedding. Their staff were super responsive, friendly and totally observant. In fact, they noticed that my 87-year-old mother's soda glass was empty, went to the bar and got her a fresh one, and brought it to her. She was thrilled and pleased! Above and beyond!

- Jessica C.

Try as I might I couldn't find a 6th star to click. Claire was wonderful to work with! I reached out to her about two months ahead of my wife's 50th birthday with a pleading, "Help I have to plan something epic and I'm unsure where to start!" From brilliant ideas, to managing absolutely everything, to the execution of an absolutely flawless event, Claire handled absolutely everything flawlessly. Ours was comparatively smaller than some of the other examples here with only about 40 guests. People were praising me throughout the incredible event and I routed all praise right to Claire. THANK YOU!

- Mark M.

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