Fire Department/Rescue Squad Open House ideas

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Some chips and fruit and cookies.  Juice and bottled water and maybe some soda?  That's a fair minimum.  Maybe a big cake to share?

Have you ever had an open house before, and if so, do you have any idea as to how many people you might be expecting to have?

If you can estimate that and if you have a budget, that potentially answers a lot of questions - or maybe even opens up some possibilities.   If you don't think that you'll have any more than 150-200 people, you could do beverages, chips and hot dogs and make a cookout of it.

Ask Chick-Fil-A if they'll donate some chicken nugget platters.  They have a budget for that kind of thing.  They used to do it for our Military events.  

Get some veggie platters from the store.  Big Gatorade Jug of some bug juice, Jug o' Ice Water. 

That's how I'd roll.

Really good ideas.

If there is a GFS nearby, they have jugs of bug juice concentrate for like $5-7 that will make up to 5 gallons.  Exactly enough to fill a large Gatorade type cooler.  You can also pick up some really large veggie platters there as well as monster sized bags of chips and stuff.

McDonalds used to give you the big yellow jug(with the red lid)  and the orange drink if you asked real nice.   I haven't seen that in a long time so I don't know if they still do that or not.

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And aren't you firehouse guys known for your cooking? I'm sure someone in the Dept can make some pretty kicka.. chili! 

Wonderful ideas, thank you!

 We will be doing the open house during the town cleanup which ends up as garage sale weekend in town.  So it would be hard to judge how many people we would get.  We used to do a pork chop fry that weekend as a fundraiser, the crowd we had varied each year & it was affected by the weather.   

With Chick-Fil-A, unfortunately the closest one is 66 miles away, but that is still good to know.  Thank you for that information. 

 We do have a GFS within an hour of us so that is an option.  Also we have DOT Foods(frozen goods distributor) and we are able to get gift certificates though them for their store.  They have items where the case or pallet broke. 

 Mmmmmnnn, chili.  That’s a good idea, we don’t have many chili suppers around.  It’s easy, and fairly inexpensive.  Maybe that is something we can do in the fall is have a regular chili supper.