There’s just a ton of buffet table setting advice on the web. All you have to do is a quick search— soon you’ll be overrun with advice on how to add height to your tables. Or how to arrange the dishes you’ll be serving “just so.” Or how to decorate the buffet table like this, or provide these plates, or arrange utensils so they’re easy for your buffet guests to take with them.
And all of this is good advice. But before you can follow any of it, you first have to know one very basic thing: how to set up a room for a buffet reception or dinner party.
