5 useful tips on how to choose the best
catering company for you

Every company has events, want to plan this event to be great organizing and a successful one.
This of course needs to do more effort and be aware of all details, such as food and beverages and other catering services.
So in this article, we will give you some important tips to select the right catering company.
Sometimes, we make a big mistake while searching for the best catering company, when we focus just on the companies with the best reviews or which have a long experience in cooking. On the other hand, we forgot our needs, our expectations, think about our considerations and how to achieve them.

Catering Plus studied the most common problems in the catering market and found that Corporate caterers may lose contracts of major clients within 1-3 years for one or more reasons listed here:

  1. Hygiene issues.
  2. Monotony menu plans.
  3. Inconsistency of meal quality or quantity delivered.
  4. Late deliveries of meals.
  5. Staff incompetency.

Catering Plus provided a pioneer solution, where we have at least 3-year retention of contracts of major clients due following:

  1. We have an in-house production process that eliminates 99% of possible Hygiene issues.
  2. We create weekly new items for menu plans.
  3. Using standard recipes to eliminate human error in quantity or quality.
  4. Superb logistics eliminates late deliveries.
  5. We constantly train well-selected staff in Hygiene practices and service etiquette.

Here we will discuss in a simple way some tips on how to choose the best catering company for your next event:

To plan well for your next event, before selecting the catering company, review its experience well, and check if this experience is suitable for you or not. Besides, ask them about the references to know their comments, and testimonials too.
If you reviewed their last experience and you want to organize a special event but you didn’t find that they organized it before, just try to communicate with them to know how to get the needed supplies.
These questions and reviews will help you to know more details and the possibility to deliver your requests.
For Catering Plus, we had more than 8 years of experience to provide different catering services.

2- Schedule a tasting:

It is necessary to try and taste the food yourself before your guest tastes it, please consider it as highly recommended.
This will provide satisfactory results for you.
Moreover, this ensures you will be happy at the end of the event without any bad expectations.

3- Determine your budget:

Write all the tasks required from the catering company, based on it prepare the expected costs related to them to get a successful event.
Ask the catering company to send you a quotation will all the financial details, to help you to make the right decision.
If you want to proceed with the event with on a low available budget, discuss this with the catering company to send you the suitable package based on your budget and your needs too.

4- Venue Familiarity:

When you choose the catering company, ensure that it is familiar with the space of your event.
This will decrease any expected disasters.
No objection to selecting the catering company that didn’t work at this venue before, but at least it has the experience to work in such spaces.
This will guarantee that there won’t be any delay in delivering food on time.

5- Food Safety and Hygiene:

It is so necessary to hire a catering company that is aware of food safety processes and other issues related to hygiene.
Cooking food in hygienic conditions will support the health of your guests.

Conclusion:

For small events, you could plan for it well because there are little details, however, for other global events such as a big party or celebration, you need not plan for it only, but to ask other specialized catering companies to do that on behalf of you.
To provide the required catering in high food quality with variety in the types, delicious tastes, excellent services, flexibility to meet your requirements, and finally to take care of your guests too.

So hiring the right catering company will make all your guests enjoy the event.
It is not easy as some could imagine, but first of all, arrange your needs, think about how to get them by contracting the best catering company as we mentioned in this article.

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