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04/07/2025

We will be closing at 2pm today🇺🇸🇺🇸

04/07/2025

Just a reminder that Woodby’s Restaurant will be closing early both today July 4th and tomorrow July 5th. We’ve posted 11am-6pm today and 11am-4pm tomorrow. It will depend on business. If it’s dead we will possibly close earlier both days.

Go out and enjoy the long holiday weekend! Have a Happy and Safe 4th of July weekend🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

01/07/2025

Holiday weekend hours at Woodby’s:

Friday July 4th: 11am-6pm
Saturday July 5th: 11am-4pm

We will close early both Friday and Saturday so our employees can enjoy the 4th of July weekend festivities🇺🇸

Have a Safe and Happy 4th of July!!

25/06/2025

Just putting out an early “Fair” (🤭) warning about hours at the restaurant in July……..

WOODBY’S Restaurant will be CLOSED from July 14th thru July 19th.
We will be back to Normal hours on July 21st.

Come see us at the Iroquois County Fair! 🎡

We made an obligation to do the food at the old Lutheran Church Food Tent at the fair back in December of 2023 (to start in July 2024) with not yet knowing we’d be buying a restaurant and adding more to our “To Do” list🤪

We apologize for the inconvenience this may cause some people. We just don’t have enough help to be able to run both at the same time.

See you at the fair🎡😁

Tonight’s special!!
21/06/2025

Tonight’s special!!

17/06/2025

This Saturday, June 21st, is the third Saturday of the month meaning it’s a “special” night!!

This Saturday’s special is brought to you by the request of Mrs. Jessica Birch😁

Smoked Macaroni n Cheese with either Smoked Pulled Pork or Smoked Brisket on top drizzled with BBQ Sauce.

Menu will consist of:
Mac n Cheese Bowls
Smoked Brisket Sandwich
Smoked Pulled Pork Sandwich

Sides:
Green Beans
Side Salad
French Fries
Mac n Cheese

Choice of a sandwich w/two sides OR the Mac n Cheese Bowl with either meat!

815-889-4100

12/06/2025

The big boss (haha😉) has decided we are going to close the restaurant this Saturday 6/14 for Fun Days!

Please go out and support the Milford Fire Departments pork chop dinner right after the parade! Kevin and I will be there to help serve food! Go support all the food vendors/trucks that the Fun Days Committee worked painstakingly to get to come here for our community celebration! We definitely want them all to get enough business to come back next year!!

We can’t wait to enjoy Fun Days weekend ( between catering jobs that is). Great entertainment at the bandshell/park, fun in the park for the kiddos, and in the evening take your significant other out for an adult beverage, visiting old friends, listening to good music, and maybe a little dancing😁

Kevin and I have been a part of Fun Days in some way for 30 years, whether it be running the beer tent along with others, working with the fire department for their annual pork chop dinner, helping put up fence at beer tent, having a food tent, etc. We love our little town and always want to help support this event!

06/06/2025

Available today until gone……

Oreo Dirt Pudding
Strawberry Jello Cake
Banana Pudding

05/06/2025

Many people ask me what a catering job entails, how do we figure amounts of food and get it right, how do we decide how to charge, etc. So below is a little inside info on a day in the life of our catering services:

All catering jobs take a minimum of 3 days to prepare for.
Day 1: shopping for supplies and food needed for the event. This always includes a trip to Champaign to get what we need. We do not keep extra stuff on hand for catering. We buy everything fresh for each event. I am very picky about the products we use and will go to 10 different stores if I have to to make sure I get the right stuff. I won’t substitute something that’s “cheaper” or “close enough” to the product I’ve always used. It sometimes takes a second trip the day before the event if we need fresh fruits and vegetables. Day 1 is usually an 8+ hour day.

Day 2: Prepping the day before the event. This is the day we make all the sides and get the meat prepared or ready for the smoker/cooker. We get all supplies boxed and ready to be loaded for the day of event. This is usually an all day thing. Not just an 8 hour work day. Depending on size of event it’s about a 12-15 hour day.

Day 3: Cooking all food for the event on day of event. This day is spent timing when all food needs to be put in cooker and taken out, loading things needed for event, packing gators with food and transporting it, travel time, unloading and setting up for event, people eating, packing left overs, cleaning up, loading stuff back up after event, unloading stuff at home or restaurant, cleaning and putting things away that were used for event. This day is usually another 12-15 hour day.

So on average about 40 hours to prepare and complete a catering job. When we do the food tents add a few more hours and twice the work. There are many we have to hire extra help for or have them do one job while Kev and I do another because stupid me hates to say no to a job so will book multiple on same date🤪 Thanks to my family who are our extra helpers most of the time😁

Charging is tricky because meat prices are all over the place and so are groceries and supplies. Think about your own grocery bill and probably quadruple it🤦‍♀️. We choose to charge per person on most jobs and this covers all costs involved: food, supplies, labor, travel, etc.
Every event is different and asks for different things so pricing is different for every event. We decided this year we wouldn’t do any events for under $15 per person due to all work involved but there’s a few I’ve went under that on. Again, all events are different and want different things. We try to give discounts when we can. We understand some of these events are fund raisers. We also have to cover our costs and make a little profit or we can’t continue to do this🤷‍♀️😂😂

As for knowing the right quantities to make I will be truthful…..we’ve gotten very lucky🤦‍♀️😂😂 I truly don’t have an exact method of figuring out how much food is needed. We’ve kind of figured out over the years how many each pan will feed and we use that as our guide on how much to make. We are usually pretty close though there are times when the number we are asked to cook for and the number that show up to eat don’t match but hey…who doesn’t love left overs 🤷‍♀️

Any hoo….thats our catering life. I’m sure I left some things out but you get the picture. Oh yeah….and we added running a restaurant into this busy, chaotic business😩🤦‍♀️😂😂 Who’s idea was that🤔🤔🤔🤔 I blame the mayor😉

02/06/2025

As promised we will start serving Chicken Salad sandwiches and Ham Salad sandwiches starting tomorrow 6/3/25!

01/06/2025

Woodby’s Catering is way behind on our shout outs and thank you’s for the past couple of months of people who had us cook for their events……I think March was our last one and we have been busy busy since then😩🤦‍♀️

April/May…..thank you’s to:

*Milford Fun Days Committee for having us do the food for the annual cash bash!

*Clove Alliance for having us feed the business after hours attendees. Also, have ordered meat for a couple of meetings.

*Griffin family for feeding family and friends at a Memorial Dinner

*Hines family for feeding family and friends at a Memorial dinner for Arlene❤️

*Schrewer (sp?) Church for having us do some meat for an event.

*Lucht family who orders pulled pork quite a bit😂 we thank you!

*Mary Kay with IMH for a Volunteer Luncheon to feed and honor those who volunteer their time at the hospital. Greatly appreciate their services!

*Herman family for ordering meat

*We donated meat for the Gold Star Memorial, which is now up at the Legion Park in Watseka. Very nice🇺🇸

*Hoopeston FFA members who we have been honored to cook for their banquet 3 or 4 years now.

*Milford Grade School for having us feed the teachers during Teacher Appreciation Week.

*Roach family for a surprise birthday party at Bae’s in Rossville. Great place for an event!

*Milford Park and Pool for having us cater their annual golf outing again this year!

*Iroquois Memorial Hospital for having us feed their employees during Hospital Appreciation Week!

*To the following families who has us feed friends and family for graduation parties…
-Brown’s
-Clutteur’s
-Smith’s
-McTaggart’s
-Legan’s
-Raven’s
-Page’s
-Runge’s
-Dixon’s
-Davis/Birch’s

*AMT (the ambulance company I work for) for having us feed all the EMT’s, Medics, Dispatchers, and employees three days in a row at Rantoul, Champaign, and Danville stations 🚑🚑

*ICE Softball league for having us feed the golfers at their annual golf outing!

I think I am caught up now🤷‍♀️🤦‍♀️😂😂😂😂

Many more booked for the summer and I’m sure I’ll get behind again😉 Thank you!!

31/05/2025

Just an FYI…….

The manufacturer has been out of the french fries we normally have on the menu for the past couple of weeks. I was sending people to get them from GFS but that just became a hassle. For the time being we will be serving krinkle cut French fries until they get our normal ones back in stock🤷‍♀️

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