Steak BBQ - Good Idea?

[agzg]

My dad's in Lion's club and they do a Steak and Lobster Bake every year. It's a similar idea, and it's SUPER popular in my hometown.

I second nittanygirl's advice and super stress the selling tickets part. You might want to make it bring your own drink, be sure not to SELL alcohol there. If you do BYOB, you will still need to card. If you provide soda, water, lemonade, etc., then I believe you'll be absolving yourself of that responsibility.

Make sure you don't sell more tickets than you can accomodate (for example, if you can fit and seat 50 people, do not sell 100 tickets). Consider to-go packages.

Perhaps the brothers can each bring a desert item.

[nittanygirl]

Originally Posted by agzg

You might want to make it bring your own drink, be sure not to SELL alcohol there. If you do BYOB, you will still need to card. If you provide soda, water, lemonade, etc., then I believe you'll be absolving yourself of that responsibility.

I thought about this too but with BYOB you run into the problem that even if you card people, those who are of age might pass it on to underages, and that's a lot of work to keep up with. You don't want underage drinking associated with your fraternity.
If you get drinks from Sam's Club/Costco it really probably won't be that bad. You could hand everyone a little (regular size tear off) ticket when they get there good for one drink, to help regulate people not taking more than they should because I've seen that happen as well