Elle R.

I came across Rick's last year when planning my wedding. I live out of state and had my wedding in Vermont, so I came to VT 4 months before my wedding to try caterers tastings and chose one. Since I was behind on the normal timeline for choosing a caterer, my only option within my budget ended up being Rick's. He invited us to his restaurant for a tasting and had an array of foods for us. The food was not impressive at all. Bland, weird, lazy food. Rick was very unprofessional during the whole planning process. At that initial meeting/tasting, he said he did not require a deposit and had no contract for us. He said to just tell him a few days before the wedding how many people we will have so he can buy enough food at Costco. Now, I love Costco, but if I wanted Costco to cater my wedding, I would have purchased it all myself and put it on the tables. The other kicker for Rick's is that he only serves his items on paper plates, with plastic forks, etc and the food is buffet style sitting in plastic dishes. Crappy for a wedding. At the tasting we agreed to hire him though, even knowing all the bad mentionables, because we were desperate. Back in our home state, we tried contacting Rick many, many times to get the menu squared away, etc... He never called back, wouldn't email us, just disappeared. We were one month from the wedding and he still didn't answer or contact us. Finally, I was so pissed I basically hunted him down, calling his wife and then his restaurant. He was so unprofessional and with an "I don't care attitude". I was infuriated with his service and yelled at him on the phone, thus firing him! I would rather have no food at my wedding than have him and his crappy attitude and service at my event. It turned out it was a blessing in disguise that he was so shitty, because in my hustle to find someone last minute, we found the BEST caterer ever and they were amazing. Better than we ever even imagined our food/service would have been. Bottom Line, AVOID RICK'S!! He SUCKS! Terrible service. Terrible person. Terrible food. Seriously RICK, what on earth are you thinking? Take a hike from the food service industry!