Labor Day Party Drink and Food Calculator

For a five-hour Labor Day party of 100 guests, a full bar comes to 13 cases of beer, 9 bottles of spirits, 9 bottles of wine, and 2 bottles of champagne, about 431 drinks, with a buffer for spills and second pours already built in. Beer carries just over half the bar at 52.2 percent, the largest share of any category, while champagne sits lowest at 4.3 percent. Spirits take 30.4 percent and wine 13 percent. The total runs about 122 drinks at 25 guests and 801 at 200, moving the beer count from 4 cases to 24.

Food figures assume this spread is the main dish, not a side alongside a bigger meal. At 100 guests that comes to 30 pizzas, 98 lbs of wings, 27 dozen tacos, 32 dozen sliders, 27 platters of appetizers, and 46 lbs of pulled pork. The same profile carries over to Memorial Day, so these tables cover both ends of the summer cookout season.

See the whole bar for a Labor Day party at 100 guests About 431 drinks, wine, beer, spirits and champagne together.