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Originally posted by aephi alum
I was once at a wedding where there were three options for dinner (chicken, fish, pasta) but we weren't asked to specify what we wanted on our reply cards - instead, someone came around and took our order. That meant they had to have enough chicken AND fish AND pasta around to anticipate everyone's wishes - and I imagine a lot of food went to waste 
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We did this at our wedding and one of the first questions we asked when they told us about this is, "How do you know that you will have enough of each dinner?" The guy explained it to us and it all made sense after that. He explained that usually when someone gets a choice of food at a wedding they usually go with the most expensive thing, in our case steak. He said that means it is very common for 60% of the guests to order steak, 30% to order chicken, and 10% to order fish. My mom and I told him he might have more fish then that because our family are big fish eaters. He said that is one question that they ask each couple that chooses this option, "Do you think you will have more people order a certain dinner then the 60%, 30%, 10%?" It all worked out in the end and everyone got what they ordered.