Ideas & Inspiration

Work, travel, and busy schedules have probably made it harder for you and your family and friends to stay in touch. Everyone is biding their time, waiting for the holiday season when they can all get together. Unless it’s a costume, you donR...

Everyone loves a celebration! And there’s no celebration without food, it seems. Regardless of their culture or religion, people love to eat when they are celebrating. Food enhances the experience, promotes interactions between people, and prov...

Here at CBM, we spend a great deal of time talking about food. However, when planning an event, we know that food is but a part (a great part, but a part nevertheless) of the whole experience. With this in mind, let’s talk about the non-food elemen...

It might have started in the 50s and 60s with tableside service. Towards the end of the 90s and the beginning of the 21st century, people looked back on tableside service and laughed. But from the 2000s on, caterers wanted to bring it back to add to ...

Where would we be without mom? She is there in the good times and difficult times. She nurtures us, supported us, loves us. We appreciate her 365 days a year. But on Mothers Day, we can celebrate her! Mothers Day is a time when we acknowledge her spe...