The one-per-person rule — and why we bend it
For intimate gatherings, one pizza per person is the safe call. Each 90-second pizza from our 500°C oven is a proper individual portion — blistered, leopard-spotted and generous — so nobody leaves hungry on a one-to-one count.
As guest numbers climb, though, ordering strictly one per head leaves you paying for pizzas that never get eaten. Across the events we've catered in Gloucestershire and the Cotswolds, the same pattern holds: a few guests don't eat at all, couples and friends split a pizza between them, and a confident minority happily put away two. The bigger the crowd, the more reliably those groups cancel each other out — which is why our recommended count drifts gently below the guest list as events grow.
Guest count to pizza count
These are the numbers we actually quote — the same figures we'd give you over the phone, whether it's a garden party in Cheltenham or a festival crowd of five hundred.
| Guests | Pizzas we recommend |
|---|---|
| 30 | 28 |
| 50 | 45 |
| 100 | 90 |
| 170 | 150 |
| 250 | 220 |
| 500 | 440 |
At 20 guests and under, our DIY Pizza Experience is often the better-value route — see our pricing page for how the per-pizza cost works.
Adjusting for your crowd
The table is the starting point; your guest list is the finishing touch. Children typically manage half a pizza each, so a family-heavy birthday or a school event can comfortably round down. Daytime events — corporate lunches, sports days, afternoon receptions — tend to eat lighter, and the standard count holds or dips slightly.
Evening events are a different animal. Once the bar has been open a few hours, appetite rises with the music, and a late-night service after dancing will see pizzas disappear faster than at any lunch. If your event runs late, hold your count at the table figure rather than trimming it — those final rounds from the oven are always the most popular of the night.
What we'll advise when you book
You don't need to arrive with a final number. Tell us your guest count, the shape of the day and who's coming, and we'll recommend a figure drawn from events just like yours — then stay flexible as your RSVPs settle. We cater for everywhere from 20-guest gatherings to events of 500, across a 50-mile radius covering Gloucestershire, the Cotswolds, Bristol and Bath.
Planning a wedding? Quantities work a little differently when there's a first dance involved — our guide to pizza as wedding food covers timing, service flow and late-night numbers in detail.