Voilà Catering is a full service catering company and the beverage service is an integral part of the entire event. We provide professional licensed bartenders and servers to provide a full range of beer, wine, and hard alcohol.  Beverage service is a critical part of every social event and Voilà Catering provides a wonderful beverage selection at events. We believe that beverages, like food, should be delicious and affordable. Our very reasonable beverage prices include refrigeration, on-site ice chilling and off-site recycling of all used containers.  With over 500 events under our belts, Voila Catering is a expert at planning all kinds of special events.Weddings are stressful and having to worry about having enough ice at the bar or making a late night beer run is not what any bride or groom wants on their special day.  The professional planners at Voila Catering will make sure that you have the right glassware for your beverages, pre-chill all the cold beverages and keep your guests happy thorough-out the party. 

With our reasonable beer and wine costs, most wedding bar tabs cost less than $8 per person for the typical reception.  Of course, we will provide a accurate estimation before the event to minimize any surprises.Bartending at Private PartiesWe all love a good party but hate the stress of getting it pulled together.  one hope wine reviewLet the staff at Voila Catering take the work and worry out of how you’re going to serve all those guests.  best selling wine in the worldSet your event apart from the typical and thrill your guests with Specialty Cocktails invented by our bartenders with the refined palate of Chef Tamara.  best red wine to eat with pastaOur broad range of beer, wine and cocktail come complete with everything necessary for a great evening of stress-free fun.box of wine that looks like a purse

Bartending at Fundraisers, Corporate, and Civic EventsFrom company picnics, corporate open house, and business holiday parties to the largest of fundraising benefit events, the staff of Voila Catering can handle every aspect of the party from rentals to staffing to clean-up.  gift for wine guyOur experienced event planner will help make your beverage selection to satisfy your guests and budgetary needs with never any surprises at the end.new world wine awards results 2014Our standard beers is served and sold based upon actual consumption at the event with no minimum. best wine coolers under counterWith Voilà Catering providing standard beverage service, you only pay for the bottles opened, thus ensuring an appropriate selection to satisfy your guests and adequate supply –  without having to purchase too much!best red wine for book club

Perfect for weddings and other large events where cost is a factor, the following are our standard house bottled beers:If you have an event with 125+ guests, we can provide NW microbrews by the keg starting at $190 for a keg plus the cost of glassware and keg tap rental.best very dry white wineFor weddings and other large events where cost is a major factor, Voila Catering offers our house wines from NW wineries at only $9.75 per bottle opened:  Cabernet, Merlot, Syrah, Riesling, Chardonnay, Sauvignon Blanc (about $2 per glass).  Our standard sparkling wine, perfect for wedding toasts, is an Italian Sparkling Prosecco at $15 per bottle.In addition to the basic wines above, we also offer a variety of premium Northwest, California, and Imported wines which are highly rated and provide remarkable value.  Chef Tamara is pleased to recommend wines for your plated meal and has created wine and food menus for very special multiple course dinners. 

Currently in our offerings are:We are excited to share our bartender’s specialty and exotic concoctions with your guests.  Bartending service for mixed drinks and Specialty Cocktails (visit our Cocktails page) is also available from Voila Catering. Mixed drinks with quality liquors typically are only $5 per drink plus a bar set-up charge.To fulfill our social responsibilities, Voila Catering abides by all Oregon State and Oregon Liquor Control Commission Rules and Guidelines. Our company is properly licensed and our company is fully insured with $1 million for liquor liability for full liquor service.  As required by law, all of our staff is licensed and trained to responsibly serve alcohol.  We do not serve underage guests, serve to Visibly Intoxicated Persons, provide liquor shots, or  encourage over-consumption of alcohol. To assure event quality and guest safety at large events, it is our Company Policy that Voila Catering provides and serves all beverages.This entry was posted on January 30th, 2017 and is filed under , , .

Sadly the Panthers are not returning to the Super Bowl this year. Despite Cam’s absence from the big game, much of America will still be watching. One frequently cited study suggests that over 325 million gallons of beer will be consumed during the big game.  That seems high, as this Asheville newspaper points out. But regardless of the actual total, we know that beer and wine sales soar during the week before the Super Bowl. What does this have to do with local governments?  All of those Super Bowl six-packs purchased in North Carolina were sold by retailers that paid local privilege license taxes on their business activities. Beer and wine privilege license taxes are one of the very few local business privilege license taxes that survived the General Assembly’s elimination of general privilege license taxes in 2015.  (Municipal taxicab taxes are the other survivors.) If you’ve ever visited an ABC (“Alcoholic Beverage Control”) store, you know that both the state and local governments are heavily involved with the regulation of alcoholic beverages. 

Readers interested in the details of this system should check out my SOG colleague Michael Crowell’s ABC chapter in our extensive County and Municipal Government book. From a local tax perspective, all you really need to know is that businesses selling beer and wine are required to obtain privilege licenses from their respective cities and counties and pay (minimal) taxes for those licenses.  G.S. 105-113.77 (retail sales, municipalities), G.S. 105-113.78 (retail sales, counties), and G.S. 105-113.79 (wholesale, municipalities) mandate the following taxes per business activity: Technically a business must obtain a license and pay a tax for each of the permitted taxable activities it conducts. However, officials from the state ABC agency report that an on-premises beer or wine license also covers off-premises sales. For example, if a bar sells beer and wine for both on-site consumption and take-out, it would be required to pay all for two local local beer and wine retail license taxes, on-premises beer and on-premises wine.

Those licenses would also cover take-out sales for off-premises consumption.  If that bar were located in a city, it would need to obtain and pay for those same two licenses at the city rate.  The total annual local beer and wine taxes for this establishement would be $80 ($25 for county beer on-premises, $25 for county wine on-premises, $15 for city beer on-premises, $15 for city wine on-premises). How about those tastings that many beer or wine shops offer? According to the state ABC agency, on-premises licenses are required for any establishement that offers tastings in house regardless of whether the establishment charges for those tastings. Each local ABC license covers that specific activity at one specific location.  If a business has multiple locations in one county or city, that business will need to obtain separate ABC licenses for each location. City beer and wine taxes (but for some reason not county taxes) must increase by 10% for each additional license of the same type issued to the same taxpayer for use at a separate location.

Assume World of Beer, Inc. operates 3 beer and wine shops in the city.  Each location sells both beer and wine for off-premises consumption.  The city ABC taxes for the first location would be $5 for beer off-premises and $10 for wine off-premises.  The city taxes for the second location would increase by 10%: $5.50 and for beer off-premises and $11 for wine off-premises.  The city taxes for the third location would again increase by 10%: $6.05 for beer off-premises and $12.10 for wine off-premises. To see how city ABC taxes would continue to increase for even more locations, take a look at this beer and wine tax schedule from the city of Durham.  County ABC taxes would remain the same for each location: $5 for off-premises beer and $25 for off-premises wine. These local privilege license taxes are in addition to the excise taxes imposed by the state on all beer and wine sales proceeds, a portion of which is shared on a per-capita basis with the local governments that permit alcohol sales.

Unlike property taxes that are tied to the fiscal year (July 1 to June 30), local beer and wine licenses and taxes must cover the period from May 1 to April 30. Local licenses are non-transferable, meaning if the operator of a wine or beer store sells the business then the new owner will be required to obtain a new license and pay the applicable tax. These local ABC taxes are exclusive, meaning that local governments may not levy any other taxes on the sale or manufacture of alcoholic beverages.  In particular, local governments may not levy privilege license taxes on the many breweries and wineries across our state beyond those mandated for the wholesale and retail sales of beer and wine.  Nor may local governments charge privilege license taxes for the sale of mixed drinks in bars or the sale of liquor by the bottle at state ABC stores. The penalties in G.S. 105-236 apply to the failure to pay for and obtain local beer and wine license taxes. Operating a business without the required privilege license triggers a monthly penalty of 5 % of the applicable privilege license tax, up to a total of 25 %.