How much does a family meal for 4 cost at Mai Thai Catering?

A family of four ordering two Lemon Herb Grilled Chicken plates and two American Hearty Beef Stew plates from Family Meal Pickup costs $84 before tax, since each dish is $21 per person with a 3-person minimum per pack. Every plate already includes a falafel or cauliflower falafel appetizer, a mixed green salad with ranch or blue cheese, a starch or vegetable side, and a Mixed Fruit Cup for dessert, so $84 covers all four courses for all four people with nothing added at checkout. Choosing Grilled Pesto Salmon, Lemon Herb Grilled Steak, or Tenderloin Roast Beef instead raises the per-person price to $25 or $26, so a family of four on those dishes runs $100 to $104 before tax.

What's included with each Family Meal Pickup dish?

Every dish on the Family Meal Pickup menu includes an appetizer of falafel or cauliflower falafel, a mixed green salad served with a choice of ranch or blue cheese sauce, a starch or vegetable side specific to that dish, and a Mixed Fruit Cup for dessert. The sides vary by entree: Lemon Herb Grilled Chicken and Lemon Herb Grilled Steak both come with brown rice and a special sauce, American Hearty Beef Stew comes with a dinner roll, Grilled Pesto Salmon comes with pasta and brussels sprouts, and Tenderloin Roast Beef comes with mashed potatoes and green beans. All of that is built into the per-person price, so a family ordering four different dishes still gets four matching full courses.

Can a family of four mix different dishes in one order?

Yes, Family Meal Pickup is priced and ordered per dish per person, so a family of four can order any combination across the five rotating dishes rather than four of the same entree. The only rule is a 3-person minimum per pack, which a four-person order already clears. That means two people can order Lemon Herb Grilled Chicken while the other two order American Hearty Beef Stew, or all four can pick different dishes entirely, all on one online order through Toast with one pickup window the next day.

How far in advance do I need to order a family meal for 4?

Family Meal Pickup orders need to be placed at least one day ahead of the pickup date, since the menu is prepared to order rather than held ready-made. Place the order online through Toast, select a pickup time window for the next day, and pay securely at checkout, with no phone call or quote required for a standard family-of-four order. Same-day requests aren't accommodated, so a family planning a Tuesday dinner should place the order by Monday to have it ready for pickup at the chosen window on Tuesday.

July 15, 2026

Family Meals for a Family of 4: What to Order and How Much It Costs

Four open takeout containers of lemon herb grilled chicken and hearty beef stew with salad, falafel, and a fruit cup, packed for a family of four

Search "family meal" and you get a wall of noise: fast-food value bundles, grocery deli trays priced by the pound, and vague "feeds four" claims with no line-item breakdown. If you're feeding four people in Atlanta tonight and want the real dollar total before you place an order, not after a surprise on the receipt, here's a worked example built from the actual Family Meal Pickup menu, with the math shown at every step.

What Four People Actually Need From a Family Meal

The Family Meal Pickup menu runs on a 3-person minimum per pack, and every dish is priced individually per person, so a party of four just orders four dishes, not four servings of one thing unless everyone actually wants that. That mix-and-match structure matters for a real household: two adults who want beef stew and two kids who'd rather have chicken over rice can go on the same online order, same pickup window, same bag. Each of the five rotating dishes on Family Meal Pickup already comes fully plated with an appetizer, a mixed green salad, a starch or vegetable side, and a Mixed Fruit Cup for dessert, so four dishes means four complete meals, not four proteins you still have to build a plate around.

The Worked Example: Two Chicken, Two Beef Stew for $84

Take a real family of four: two adults, two kids, one of whom skips red meat and one who wants it. A workable order is 2x Lemon Herb Grilled Chicken at $21 a person and 2x American Hearty Beef Stew at $21 a person. That's 4 x $21, or $84 before tax, placed as one ticket through Family Meal Pickup. The chicken comes with brown rice and a special sauce; the beef stew comes with a dinner roll. Both include the same falafel or cauliflower falafel appetizer, the same mixed green salad with a choice of ranch or blue cheese, and the same Mixed Fruit Cup, so nobody at the table is working from a stripped-down plate next to someone else's fuller one.

Family dinner table set for four with grilled chicken, beef stew, side salads, and fruit cups plated at each setting

What's Actually Included for $21 a Person

None of those inclusions are upsells tacked onto the $21 base price. The appetizer, salad, side, and dessert are built into every one of the five dishes on the rotating menus page, whether you're ordering the $21 chicken or the $26 tenderloin roast beef. That's worth checking against other "family meal" sources: a grocery deli tray usually prices the entree and sides separately, and a fast-casual bundle often charges extra per added side or drink. Here, the per-person price is the full plate, appetizer through dessert, with nothing else to add before checkout.

Bumping the Order Up: Salmon and Steak for the Same Family of 4

If the same family of four wants to trade up for a weekend dinner, the math scales the same way. 2x Grilled Pesto Salmon at $25 a person plus 2x Tenderloin Roast Beef at $26 a person comes to $102 before tax, four full meals with salmon and pasta and brussels sprouts on two plates, roast beef with mashed potatoes and green beans on the other two. Or split the difference: one salmon, one roast beef, one chicken, one steak covers four different preferences for $21 + $25 + $26 + $26 = $98. The per-dish pricing means upgrading two plates out of four doesn't force the whole order into a higher tier.

How This Compares to Other "Family Meal" Options

Compared to other "family meal" categories, the difference isn't just price, it's what's actually verifiable before you order. Grocery store family meal trays are usually priced to feed a number of people off one shared tray, which works differently than four individually plated meals with their own sides; that comparison is broken down further in grocery store family meal trays vs. restaurant pickup. Fast-casual chains bundle a fixed protein-and-side combo with per-item add-on pricing, and sit-down chains' to-go programs often price closer to their dine-in menu, before any to-go fee. A Family Meal Pickup order skips all of that: the $21 to $26 per-person price is the whole plate, and the total for four people is just that number times four.

Marble counter with stacked takeout containers showing salmon, roast beef, and steak family meal options ready for pickup

Ordering Timeline: When to Place a Family-of-4 Order

Ordering has to happen at least one day ahead. Family Meal Pickup runs entirely through Toast online ordering, and how Family Meal Pickup ordering works covers the mechanics in more detail, but the short version is: no phone call and no quote request needed for a party of four. Place the order, choose a pickup window for the next day, and pay online. For a family sorting out Tuesday's dinner on Monday afternoon, that means the $84 order above needs to go in before the current day ends, not at 5pm when everyone's already hungry.

When Four People Isn't the Whole Guest List

Four people is also the point where it's worth knowing when to stop using Family Meal Pickup at all. If the guest list grows past a normal dinner table, birthday parties, office lunches, larger family gatherings, the per-person Family Meal Pickup pricing isn't the right tool anymore. Office Catering covers that instead, with the Atlanta Fajita Bar starting at $16.99 a person and the Atlanta Brack's grain bowl bar at $17.99 a person, typically built for 10 or more guests and quoted directly against a headcount, date, and menu through a quote request.

Order Your Family of 4 Meal Today

For a straightforward family of four on a weeknight, the fastest path is still the direct one: build the exact combination above, or your own mix across the five rotating dishes, on Family Meal Pickup, pick a pickup window for tomorrow, and pay online. No phone tag, no quote email, just a per-person price times four people. If the group grows past a dinner table, Office Catering or a quote request scales the same transparent per-person pricing up to a full event.