LCI Caterers
Wedding Caterer
+1 718-441-4111
Standalone profileThe Menuevents on the kitchen's roster
Standing Servicepractice overview
Caterer in Queens covering wedding receptions, plus cuisine-specific menus — booking via LCI Caterers.
In NY the moisture, freeze, and storm patterns vary by season — a competent provider has experience with year-round demand cycles.
LCI Caterers appears among catering service listings for Queens, NY.
The summary below is editorial — public-source cues plus call-prep questions, not service endorsements.
Service cues on file: wedding catering, cuisine-specific catering.
That spans 2 categories.
Confirm whether the same staff handle all of them or whether different specialists rotate in.
Use-case alignment: Wedding receptions and private celebrations; Cuisine-specific event menus.
Starting frame for the call — not a guarantee of pricing, availability, or technician skill.
Where Queens sits within NY matters: neighborhood age, code requirements, and seasonal demand shift the dispatch calculus.
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This is an editorial snapshot, not a referral.
Pricing, availability, and certifications may have changed since the public-source pass.
Mise en Placebooking facts
- Phone+1 718-441-4111
- Sitelcicaterers.com
- Kitchen base112-08 101st Ave, South Richmond Hill, NY 11419, United States
- SpecialtyWedding Caterer
- Service areaQueens · Albany · Brooklyn · Buffalo
- Profile tierStandalone
- Data score79 / 100
Regional Practicepermits & service customs in this region
Across the Northeast — NY, NJ, PA, MA, CT, MD, RI, VT, NH, ME, DE, DC — caterers in the dense metros are typically licensed by the city health department, with a posted permit and a certificate of liquor liability if bar service is included. Most venues require the caterer to carry general-liability and host-liquor coverage. Sales tax applies to both food and the service charge in most of the region, so factor that into the per-head budget early.
Consider Before You Callfive questions to bring to the booking
- How far in advance do weddings book up, and is a tasting offered before the contract is signed?
- Can you adapt the core menu for guests with allergies or dietary restrictions, and what's the deadline for finalizing it?
- What is included in the per-head price — appetizers, dessert, non-alcoholic drinks, gratuity, taxes?
- Do you carry a current health-department permit and a certificate of insurance the venue can request?
- How many courses or stations are within the per-head package, and what counts as an upgrade?
Table Questionsfrequent asks at the booking
- How is catering priced — per head or per dish?
- Most catering is priced per-person ("per-head") for a fixed package: appetizers and main and dessert and non-alcoholic drinks. Service staff, rentals, and the bar are usually separate line items. À-la-carte and weight-based ("market price") pricing is common at high-end and cuisine-specific kitchens. Confirm whether tax, service charge, and gratuity are inside the per-head number before signing.
- How far ahead should the kitchen be booked?
- Wedding caterers typically book six to twelve months ahead for prime spring–summer dates. Corporate events book two to four weeks ahead, sometimes shorter. Drop-off catering for office events can be twenty-four to seventy-two hours. Last-minute bookings limit the menu, since the kitchen has to source from what is already in their order rotation.
- Drop-off versus full-service — what is the practical difference?
- Drop-off means the kitchen delivers food (hot or cold) and leaves — no servers, no bar, no on-site staff. Full-service brings servers, bartenders, an event captain, and sometimes rentals (linens, glassware, china). Full-service typically costs thirty to sixty percent more than drop-off for the same food.
- How is the menu tasting handled?
- Most full-service caterers offer a tasting before the contract is signed (sometimes free, sometimes a credit-on-booking fee). The tasting is a curated four to six dish version of the proposed menu. Bring the decision-makers and write notes on each dish; the tasting is to lock in the menu, not redesign it from scratch.
- What is the difference between a wedding caterer and a regular caterer?
- A wedding caterer specializes in reception dining at scale — typically fifty to three hundred guests with a fixed timeline (cocktail hour, plated dinner, dessert station). Wedding caterers often have venue partnerships, contracts written for wedding contingencies, and staff trained for the wedding-day flow. A regular ("event") caterer covers a broader range of events but may not be staffed for the long, multi-stage flow a wedding needs.
- Tipping and service charges — how do they work?
- Service charge (typically eighteen to twenty-two percent) is added by the caterer to cover front-of-house labor; it is not a tip — it goes to the company. If the contract says "service charge" not "gratuity," a separate tip for the captain, servers, and bartenders is appropriate. Standard tipping for catering staff is ten to twenty percent of the food bill, distributed among the team.