Dinner Bell is ready to take your order

Sherri and Chance Smith have started a catering service called Dinner Bell Catering Company LLC. The smoker is fired up at their farm northeast of Gallatin, and they’re ready to take orders for catering.
The Dinner Bell will cater to weddings, reunions, parties, and any gathering of empty stomachs. Sherri recently took a position running the cafeteria at Landmark Manufacturing and Landmark will use the Dinner Bell as its catering service.
The Dinner Bell’s specialty is homemade French fries with pork belly, brisket, or pork butt. They will cook any meat with whatever sauce you want on it. They’ll cater cheeseburgers, hot dogs, steak, you name it.
“Whatever the customers would like,” Sherri says.
The Dinner Bell has not decided its range as far as distance they’re willing to travel. There might be an additional charge for mileage.
“We’re wanting to get it up and running,” Sherri says. “We’re open to about anything.”
Sherri says she’s been cooking since she was six years old. She was the only girl in a house with three brothers.
“I learned how to cook from Grandma Pettit, Aunt Mary King, the late Betty Lewis who dated my father, my Grandmother Gracey, my Aunt Velma, and my mother Sue.”
Sherri says Chance has always liked to smoke meat and they recently bought a three-chamber smoker on wheels.
The Dinner Bell got its name from Gerald “Bud” Eugene McCann Sr, of Jamesport. Sherri took care of him.
“We’d bring him to my farm daily, either on his golf cart or in his mini van,” says Sherri. “One day he asked if our farm had a dinner bell. He said every farm has to have a dinner bell.”
When Sherri told him that she didn’t have a dinner bell, he said that he had one on his farm. Sherri first got Bud’s bell and later got the gong. After Bud passed away, the family hung the bell on a pole by the back porch.
“I went round back and saw that beautiful dinner bell,” says Sherri. “I rang it for my Bud so loud and proud the heavens could hear it.”
Sherri’s best friend Jackie Nichols came up with the name, Dinner Bell Catering.
And like an old dinner bell calling in the farm hands for a fresh, hearty meal, Sherri promises you won’t go hungry.
“Everything is homemade,” says Sherri. “Chicken and noodles, fresh ground beef patties — nothing’s pre-prepared.”
You can call or text 605-0801, email [email protected], or message The Dinner Bell on Facebook to place your orders.