I have just received an order for a cake for 800 people. How many tiers and what sizes would be enough for that amount of people and how much should I charge for it?

Goodness that is a lot of people. I would think something with 5 tiers and then matching cakes around it. I will find a picture of what I am talking about and post it.

Something like this but in a larger scale.

http://www.cakecentral.com/cake-decorating-photos_display_84_-67117.html

If you do a 24, 20, 16,13, 10 and 7 inch stacked and then surround it with 5 12" cakes that would equal out to around 815 servings.

Why not just make a lot of big sheet kitchen cakes, to supplement one more normal sized cake? A normal cake would be more photogenic anyway.

I agree with redred. I often have supplied extra servings with layer cakes served from the kitchen.A single cake display for 800 people is huge. A more normal size cake is more manageable.

I agree with the extra cakes in the kitchen. So many cakes would take away from the main cake. Just curious, what type of function is it that there will be that many people?

Thank you all so much. I only just found out about sheet cakes today. They are a brilliant idea. Before this I had no idea that you could actually do that and was in a state of panic.

The function is a wedding but the client is part of a large community and apparently every time they have an event it is huge! So this is normal for them.