National Restaurant Association. U.S.A.

Now for a function menu, a very memorable function menu. The 1982 Grand Banquet and Show for the National Restaurant Association of America in Chicago. This was definately the biggest and most impressive banquet I have ever been to, on the most gigantic scale. This was a sit down banquet for 2,500 people with a 5 course meal, a 60 piece orchestra and a dance floor for 600.
The menu as shown was excellent, served hot and all 5 courses completed in 1 and 3/4 hours which is quite a feat for large scale catering. This was followed by a floor show featuring Doc Severinsen on the trumpet ( he was the band leader on the tonight show ) and comic Flip Wilson. On our table we had 10 Koalas stacked up in the center and you could get a dance with the prettiest girl in the room for a Koala, in fact I danced with the daughter of the President of the NRA for a koala.
Also it was amazing to talk to some of the American people on our table who were all carrying concealed weapons evan in their dinner suits, even the wives were carrying 38's in the hand bags. Chicago did have a reputation in those days.