We have used Scooter to cater our parties twice prior to my wife's 40th birthday fiasco on July 19th, 2025 - once for my 50th back in June 2023 and again for a celebration of life for my wife's father last year.
Each time we got the Greek souvlaki package with the meat and cheese tray platter additions and the baclava desert platters which are additions to the package.
My 50th and the Celebration of Life went pretty smooth - but this last party, my wife's 40th was obviously double booked and what transpired is a reflection of this.
We reserved him back in February - so ample time to prepare... on the day of the party we received an email at 1:15 stating that the meat and cheese platters (which were basically just cubed cheddar cheese and a couple packs of Costco assorted meat thrown in) was going to be late - it was a 2PM start... turns out they weren't too late and this wasn't really an issue.
The issue was that Scooter has a corporate event going on doors down the street from us at Andrew's Scenic Acres and was an hour late showing up to serve the souvlaki - which after taking a survey from most of the people that were at the party - didn't even feed 70 people. Now he'll say that each person is allotted 1.7 sticks - but I didn't see any sticks that held .7 worth of meat - so any caterer worth their salt should be rounding up to 2 sticks per guest - this still wasn't the case - ALOT of people went hungry at this event - not to mention that AFTER arriving an hour late he asked 2 strangers not the people paying his bill, when he should start serving.... The 2 strangers were 2 friends who decided they would help by throwing on some speducci I had in the freezer to tide the guests over until he was there and set up...
To add insult to injury - not only were their not enough souvlaki to go around - the rice and potatoes were dry and there wasn't even close to enough tzatziki to go around... can you imagine running out of tzatziki on an already short souvlaki dinner ???
There was enough baclava to feed - well I don't know how many people got baclava - it was gone well before I saw any deserts - so I can't actually say they were short but if he wasn't - then I mean they had to eat something right ?
He forgot the pop and water/refreshments - so we had to run to the store to buy additional cases of water and then afterwards left his garbage wrapped up in plastic on our lawn which the raccoons got into and left a huge mess all over.
It was a complete disaster.
And then we go back to Scooter requesting $1000 off the $3500 bill for obvious reasons and he offers us the taxes - like he's claiming this disaster anyway.... My wife talked me into $750 less which is basically the taxes plus $250 - she's my wife so I caved - but shame on you Scooter - your corporate event destroyed her 40th birthday party and she still stood up for you - I made her promise we would never use you again though.
So hope you and your ridiculous impending reply got what you wanted out of this...
You will never get another job from us or anyone who asks us if we know a good cater - because we don't. read more