Hotels & Convention Centers
300 guests arrive Saturday. Your banquet team is 8 servers short. Now what?
Croux gives hotels and convention centers on-demand access to vetted banquet servers, bartenders, event staff, and cooks, filled in days, not weeks. No agency markup. No mystery workers.
Trusted by hotel properties across the Southeast and Midwest
The reality of running banquets at a hotel or convention center.
The event space staffing trap.
The volume problem
40-person dinner Monday. 200-person lunch Wednesday. 350-person wedding Saturday. No full-time roster handles that headcount swing.
The agency tax
Your agency charges $28/hr and sends whoever's free. Half haven't worked a banquet. Two won't show. You're paying premium for a coin flip.
The reputation risk
One understaffed gala and the event planner tells every meeting planner in town. Your reputation is only as good as your last event.
Your banquet team scales with the calendar, not payroll.
Keep a lean core team. When the ballroom books up, fill banquet servers, bartenders, event staff, and cooks through Croux. Tell us what you need, we match you with the right workers, and your events run. See how a 346-room convention hotel does it in the Renaissance Montgomery case study. Croux also staffs hotel banquets, conventions, banquet halls, housekeeping, venues, and catering waitstaff, in cities like Tampa. For show-up and fill data, read the staffing reliability study.
Built for hotel event operations.
Vetted event-ready workers
Every worker is background-checked and rated by hospitality properties. Find a great banquet server? Lock them in every weekend this month.
Scales with your calendar
Need 4 servers Monday, 20 Saturday? Post both. No overstaffing slow weeks, no scrambling busy ones.
No agency markup
You set the hourly rate. Workers earn what you pay. Croux adds a service fee, still well below agency markup.
Three steps. Sixty seconds.
Post your event staffing needs
8 servers for Saturday's wedding. 3 bartenders for the reception. 2 cooks for the gala. Takes 60 seconds per shift.
We match, you confirm
Croux matches vetted workers to your event. Review the lineup and confirm, or auto-fill from your favorites.
They show up. You run the event.
Workers clock in through the app. You focus on the guest experience, not headcount math. Pay is handled automatically.
96%
Workers who show up and finish
7 hrs
Avg shift, full event coverage
Weekly
Most hotel properties post
Every role your event operation needs.
Banquet Servers
Experienced plated service for galas, weddings, and corporate dinners.
Bartenders
Full-service bar coverage for receptions, conferences, and private functions.
Event Staff
Setup, greeting, registration, and general event floor support.
Banquet Cooks
BOH coverage for high-volume banquet kitchens and catered events.
Dishwashers & Utility
Keep the kitchen running clean through multi-course events.
Housemen & Setup Crew
Room flips, linen staging, AV setup, and post-event breakdown.
Why hotels aren't built for full-time banquet teams.
A 20,000 sq ft ballroom needs 15-20 staff on busy weekends and 4-5 on slow Tuesdays. Keeping 20 people on payroll to cover the peak means paying for 15 empty chairs every slow night. Agencies charge $25-30/hr for workers earning $15. They send whoever's available, not whoever's good. Keep your core F&B team lean. Fill variable positions through Croux at rates you control. Rebook the best workers every week and get consistency without the overhead.
Croux vs. the staffing agency your hotel has been using.
Cost
Agencies charge $25-30/hr including markup. With Croux, you set the rate. We add a small service fee, well below what agencies charge.
Quality & consistency
Agencies send whoever's available. Croux matches rated, experienced workers. Rebook favorites weekly and build a reliable crew.
Speed & transparency
Post in 60 seconds. See worker ratings and history before they arrive. No-shows? You don't pay.
Trusted by hotel event teams across the Southeast and Midwest.
We run 3-4 events a week and can't keep a full banquet team on payroll. Croux lets us scale up for a 300-person wedding and right-size for a 40-person board dinner.
Our agency was charging $28/hr and sending people who'd never worked a banquet. We switched to Croux, set our own rate, and labor costs dropped.
I have a bench of 15 banquet servers I rotate every weekend. They know our standards. Croux made that possible without putting them all on payroll.
Your property's reputation is on the line. We know.
Background-checked workers
Every person on the platform, 10-year lookback.
Rated and reviewed
By other hotel and event properties, so you see real performance history before you confirm.
Favorite & rebook
Build your own roster of reliable banquet staff. Lock in great workers for every weekend this month.
Real support
Call or text us. Real people who understand hospitality.
Live Dashboard
Active Shifts
Questions we get from hotel event teams.
How fast can you fill banquet shifts?
Post as early as you can. For large events (15+ workers), post 5-7 days out. Same-day fill happens, but more lead time gets you a stronger crew. You set the rate. We add a transparent fee.
Can I staff an entire banquet team through Croux?
Yes. Many hotel properties use Croux for their full variable banquet roster: servers, bartenders, cooks, dishwashers, and setup crew. Keep your core team lean and flex up through Croux.
Can I rebook the same workers every week?
Absolutely. This is how most hotel properties use us. Favorite workers get priority access to your future shifts. Many properties maintain a rotating bench of 10-20 go-to workers.
What does it cost?
You set the hourly rate. Croux adds a service fee on top. Most hotel properties save significantly compared to agencies because there's no markup eating into your budget.
How is this different from our current staffing agency?
Three things: cost (no agency markup), quality (rated, experienced workers), and consistency (rebook your best workers). Croux builds you a reliable crew at a rate you set.
Do you also fill hotel housekeeping?
Yes. Croux fills room attendants, housemen, and public-area cleaners alongside your banquet and event crew.
Your next event deserves a full team. Staff it in 60 seconds.
Join the hotel properties that stopped overpaying agencies and started running banquets on Croux.