How to Display Desserts at an Open House
Catering your next open house with sweet treats is such a fun way to attract potential buyers and new clients!
You’ve got the desserts ready to go and now you’re wondering how best to show them off.
Keep reading to learn some tips and tricks for serving desserts at an open house!
Why Cater an Open House
Catering a real estate open house gives you the chance to present potential new clients with a memorable experience and make a great first impression. Also, hiring a caterer rather than putting together refreshments yourself means you get to have one less item on your to-do list!
By catering your next open house, you take the event to the next level and impress potential home buyers or future clients. Staging an open house is not only about bringing attention to a specific property, but also attracting new clients to you and your business. When they see how polished an event you put together, and are able to meet you and talk in person, potential new clients will be blown away and may turn to you for representation when they buy or sell their next property!
Dessert Catering for Open Houses
Dessert catering for open houses puts a sweet spin on any event and gives it instant personality. By offering sweet treats to open house guests, you encourage them to show up and stick around, you put them instantly at ease, and you leave a sweet taste in their mouth (both literally and figuratively!)
Instead of putting out snacks for your next open house, consider catering it with desserts. This will set the event apart, and be a crowd favorite. Plus, if families are part of your target audience, there is no better way to win over the kids than by offering sweet treats...
Popsicles for Open Houses
Popsicles are a sweet and fun delicacy that bring back memories of childhood and joyful summers spent without a care in the world. These delicious offerings bring up lighthearted feelings which set the tone for an event and can draw people to your real estate business. That’s what makes popsicles an ideal option for open houses!
Another fun twist on classic popsicles is boozy popsicles. These sweet treats also contain small amounts of alcohol, and taste like frozen drinks that come in popsicle form. How fun is that? Boozy popsicles are ideal for twilight opens and exclusive, invite-only open houses.
Ice Cream for Open Houses
Ice cream is another great option for open house catering. Not only is ice cream a people pleaser and a fun reason to come check out an open house, but it also can be upscale and sophisticated. Gourmet gelato takes this treat to a more grown up level by offering flavors that are both delicious and complex.
Ice cream also fits in well with a variety of themes and different types of open houses. Setting up an open house during the heart of a hot Los Angeles summer? Advertise ice cream at your event and you guarantee attendance as people seek relief from the heat. T
Trying to market a home to families with children? Kids will love to eat a cone of ice cream while their parents wander through the property and talk with the realtor!
Showing off a backyard pool? Ice cream brings to mind all things summer and brings up emotions that help make the sale.
Boozy Popsicles or Ice Cream for Open Houses
Trying to impress adult clientele? Invite them into a property showing where you offer alcohol popsicles or boozy ice cream. This helps you save on waste and costs by not needing to provide disposable containers for cocktails, is a classy way to serve alcohol, and is also just really fun and unique!
Before you advertise the fact that there will be adult-only ice cream or popsicles at your next open house, make sure to check out this article on serving alcohol at an open house in California and make sure you meet all the requirements to do so safely and legally.
How to Display Desserts at Open Houses
Now, here’s the fun part. Once you’ve hired a dessert catering company for your upcoming open house, it’s time to think about how you will display these treats.
Where to Place Desserts at an Open House
Here are a few ideas for strategically placing catered desserts at your next event:
At the entrance (One trick to attracting more potential buyers or clients to your open house is to position a dessert station at the front door. That way, people who are walking by in the neighborhood will be instantly drawn in. This is also a great way to welcome people into a property and make them feel at ease and joyful as they walk through the door. Position an ice cream cart by the entrance to the property, or display sign that entices people with a message like “ice cream this way!”)
On a patio or porch (Dessert displays at an open house are a great way to subtly show off the best features of a property. If the home you are trying to sell has a winning balcony or patio, try setting up a dessert stand here. Either put out a table laden with ice cream toppings in various colors and set up an ice cream cart in the corner, or keep a mini-freezer full of popsicles on the patio and hand them out with colorful napkins that advertise your business.)
By the pool (Show off a great outdoor pool in a home you are selling by serving sweet treats there. By giving out scoops of ice cream or popsicles by the pool, you help potential buyers or clients imagine life in the home. This is also one way to display desserts as part of a theme.)
In a spacious kitchen (Trying to show off a spectacular kitchen area with high-quality appliances or an open floor plan? Draw people into the kitchen by displaying your desserts here. Place ice cream toppings on a kitchen island to naturally draw attention to it, keep popsicles in a state-of-the-art freezer to show off the appliances that come with the home, or invite guests to sit at the kitchen table to enjoy their treats.)
Ice cream cart (Beach Town Pops offers cute ice cream and popsicle carts for hire in the Los Angeles area. These are a creative way to display sweet treats at your next open house, and can even be customized to fit your brand and advertise your real estate business. They come with an umbrella for outdoor service, a Beach Town Pops server, dry ice to keep the sweet treats cold, a menu of the available items on offer, and can be reserved for 2+ hours!)
In a living area (While chocolate ice cream and beige furniture may not be the best combination, popsicles served with colorful napkins are probably safe in a house’s living room! This allows you to display a key room in the home and invite people to sit down and make themselves comfortable while enjoying a delicious treat.)
Outside (Placing snacks outside is probably the best way to ensure that nobody makes a mess in a home you are showing! This is your opportunity to make the most of a great backyard and gives people a reason to check it out for themselves.)
Popsicle Displays at Open Houses
If you’ve hired Beach Town Pops to serve popsicles at your next open house, there are a few different ways you can display these treats. The first would be to rent a popsicle cart, which can be customized to advertise your business!
Another option would be to get the popsicles dropped off in a cooler. You can then have some fun putting them on display. Either choose a room in the home where you’d like to bring people’s attention and place the cooler there along with napkins and perhaps a water pitcher, or decorate an outside space with a fun theme.
Beach Town Pops
No matter what kind of open house or real estate event you are throwing, Beach Town Pops has a dessert catering solution for you. Boozy popsicles are ideal for twilight open houses, ice cream carts for homes on Redondo Beach, or fun kid-friendly ice cream and popsicle flavors for family homes. Reach out today to discuss menu options.