Graduation hibachi catering at home
Graduation season means a rolling crowd, a tight calendar and relatives arriving in waves. A private hibachi chef cooks in courses right in your yard, so the food stays hot from the first guest to the last.
Built for a crowd that arrives in waves
The hard part of a graduation party is not the food, it is the timing — grandparents at four, the team at six, neighbours whenever. Graduation hibachi catering solves it by cooking live: the chef works the flat-top in courses instead of laying out trays that go cold by five. Guests eat when they arrive, straight off the grill. That is the practical difference between mobile hibachi catering and drop-off catering in June.
What is included at a graduation hibachi party
Every booking includes the private hibachi chef, the grill and propane, all cooking, the knife-and-fire show, and clean-up of our station. Each plate comes with hibachi fried rice, seasoned vegetables, salad and our signature sauces, plus two proteins per guest. We can run chicken and steak for the crowd and hold a few filet or shrimp plates back for the family table. It is hibachi grill catering with the show attached, not a buffet line.
Pricing and headcount for graduation season
Adults are $55 each, children $30 each, with a $550 event minimum. Travel is a flat $50 for the first 50 miles including tolls, then $1 per mile. Graduation parties are usually our larger bookings — 20 to 40 guests is routine, and for very large lists we can send a second chef so nobody waits. Tell us the real number, including the cousins who say maybe, and we will size it honestly.
How graduation day runs with a hibachi chef
Because ceremony times move, we lock the setup window rather than a single minute. The chef arrives 20 to 30 minutes early, sets up on the driveway, deck or patio, and starts when you say go. If the ceremony runs long, the grill waits — that flexibility is why in-home hibachi works for graduations where a restaurant reservation would already be forfeited.
Searching for a graduation hibachi chef near you?
June fills fast, so the practical move is to check your town and lock a date. A hibachi chef near you covers most of the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, Southeast and West Coast — 165 towns have their own graduation page and 504 have a local page. The chef arrives with the hibachi grill and propane, and the hibachi show doubles as the entertainment nobody has to organise. Find your town below, or call (484) 978-8774 for a graduation hibachi dinner date.
Graduation hibachi catering by city
165 cities and towns with a dedicated graduation hibachi page. Tap your town for local pricing, travel and setup detail — or see all 504 towns we cover on the Service Areas page.
Arizona · California · Colorado · Connecticut · Delaware · Florida · Georgia · Illinois · Maryland · Massachusetts · Michigan · Nevada · New Jersey · New York · North Carolina · Oregon · Pennsylvania · Tennessee · Texas · Washington · Washington, D.C.
Arizona (1)
California (3)
Colorado (1)
Delaware (4)
Florida (23)
Georgia (1)
Illinois (1)
Maryland (5)
Massachusetts (1)
Michigan (1)
Nevada (1)
New Jersey (67)
- Asbury Park
- Avalon
- Bay Head
- Bayonne
- Beach Haven
- Belleville
- Bloomfield
- Cape May
- Chatham
- Closter
- Cranford
- Cresskill
- Deal
- Demarest
- East Brunswick
- Edgewater
- Edison
- Elizabeth
- Englewood
- Fair Lawn
- Florham Park
- Fort Lee
- Hackensack
- Hoboken
- Iselin
- Jersey City
- Livingston
- Long Branch
- Longport
- Madison
- Mahwah
- Mantoloking
- Maplewood
- Margate City
- Middletown
- Montclair
- Morristown
- New Brunswick
- Newark
- North Bergen
- Nutley
- Ocean City
- Paramus
- Parsippany
- Piscataway
- Plainfield
- Princeton
- Red Bank
- Ridgewood
- Rumson
- Sea Girt
- Sea Isle City
- Secaucus
- Short Hills
- South Orange
- Spring Lake
- Stone Harbor
- Summit
- Teaneck
- Tenafly
- Union City
- Ventnor City
- Weehawken
- West New York
- West Orange
- Westfield
- Woodbridge
New York (20)
North Carolina (1)
Oregon (1)
Pennsylvania (26)
Tennessee (1)
Washington (1)
Washington, D.C. (1)
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Questions we get asked
Can you handle 30 or 40 guests at a graduation party?
Graduation times move. What if the ceremony runs late?
Can guests arrive at different times?
What does a graduation hibachi party cost?
Do you need a kitchen, or is the backyard enough?
Ready to book graduation hibachi catering?
$55 per adult, $30 per child, $550 event minimum, flat $50 travel for the first 50 miles. Tell us the date and the headcount and we will confirm a chef.