2025 Corporate Holiday Event Trends Caterers Need to Know
As the corporate world regains its social rhythm, this year’s holiday event landscape reveals a significant shift in catering trends. Across the country, companies are ...
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What’s Hot: National Restaurant Association Forecasts Menu Trends for 2026
The National Restaurant Association released its highly anticipated 2026 What’s Hot Culinary Forecast, highlighting the trends set to shape America’s menus in the coming year. ...
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MISSION BBQ Partners with ezCater to Drive Catering Growth
All 152 MISSION BBQ locations are now available on ezCater, marking the restaurant brand’s first appearance on a third-party marketplace. The relationship gives the fast-casual ...
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Strong Early Bookings Point to a Festive Holiday Event Season
By Sara Perez Webber ’Tis almost the season—will your stockings be stuffed with holiday bookings? In what may be a sign of an extra-cheerful season ...
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Elevate Your Catering: 4 Packaging Trends for 2026
As catering evolves, packaging continues to play a critical role in the customer experience. From food safety and performance to waste reduction and circularity, packaging ...
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Overserving: What You Need to Know
Football season is in full swing, then there’s “Drinksgiving,” then New Year’s Eve, followed by the Super Bowl! The fall/holiday season is a time when ...
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Research Proves That In-Person Events Boost Morale and Wellness
By Allison Freeman, Element Event Solutions When it comes to holiday events, if you build it, they will come—and leave happier. Those of us in ...
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2025 Corporate Holiday Event Trends Caterers Need to Know
As the corporate world regains its social rhythm, this year’s holiday event landscape reveals a significant shift in catering trends. Across the country, companies are ...
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Single-Use Packaging Makes Catering Easy
Catering plays an increasing role in today’s foodservice industry, especially with a return to offices and foodservice options continuing to diversify. As a result, the ...
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What’s Hot in Hospitality
Caviar carts, sensorial cocktails and corporate events that emphasize flexibility. Those are just a few of the 2025 industry trends identified by Elite Catering + ...
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Caterer Close-Up: Keith Lord of the Strateje Fourteen Consulting Firm
When Keith Lord launched Strateje Fourteen in January 2020—just weeks before the pandemic shuttered the events industry—he knew one thing for certain. After decades running ...
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Top Caterers Share Advice and Strategies at Florida Restaurant Show
Between them, they’ve catered everything from papal visits to intimate backyard weddings. But when Warren Dietel, Bill Hansen and Kevin Lacassin took the stage at ...
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Caterer Close-Up: Jordan and Emily Swim of Vestals Catering in Dallas
The story of Dallas-based Vestals Catering begins like many meaningful meals do—with a charming backyard party that grew beyond the picket fence. In 2008, Jordan ...
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Why Plant Based World Expo Belongs on Your Calendar
Plant Based World Expo North America is back and better than ever! Taking place on December 2–3, 2025, at the Javits Center in New York ...
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Smoke the Competition with AUSTIN BLUES® Smoked Meats
When you’re catering for a crowd, consistency is key. With AUSTIN BLUES® Smoked Meats, you can delight guests with authentic, pitmaster-crafted barbeque that’s flavorful and ...
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Robot Coupe Makes Life Easy in Your Kitchen
Since 1961, Robot Coupe has understood the importance of efficiency and precision in the professional kitchen. It’s no surprise the company that created the food ...
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Social Media Strategies
How much do people “like” you? Are engaged couples engaging with you online? Are you feeding customers who found you through your feed? To learn ...
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Progress in Cold Chain Logistics
When the risk of food spoilage and foodborne illness is mitigated, your customers are satisfied, and your business grows. Cold chain logistics—the storing, handling and ...
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Complying with Foodservice Standards
Compliance in the foodservice and catering industry has grown increasingly complex as regulations become more stringent. With over 12 federal regulatory agencies and more than ...
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Event Spotlight: Cattle Baron’s Ball in Dallas
Caterer: Vestals Catering Venue: Southfork Ranch in Dallas Photographer: Allen Tsai Overview: For the third consecutive year, Vestals catered the Cattle Baron’s Ball—the world’s largest ...
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Landmark Experiences Aims to Redefine Luxury Hospitality at Large-Scale Events
Super Bowl tailgates with Navajo fry bread in Phoenix—and Cuban pastelitos in Miami. Full coffee and affogato bars, customizable with a plethora of candy and ...
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Event Spotlight: Wedding at the Drummond Ranch
Caterer: A Fare Extraordinaire Venue: Drummond Ranch, a historic cattle ranch in Osage County, Oklahoma Overview: In May 2025, the team at Houston-based A Fare ...
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Strong Early Bookings Point to a Festive Holiday Event Season
By Sara Perez Webber ’Tis almost the season—will your stockings be stuffed with holiday bookings? In what may be a sign of an extra-cheerful season ...
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Travel Table: Returning to the Best Meal of My Life at Chicago’s Alinea
More than 15 years ago, my parents took me to Alinea, Grant Achatz’s famous restaurant in Chicago. It was the most mind-blowing dining experience I’d ...
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Travel Table: Lobster Linguine on the Amalfi Coast
My family had the opportunity to tour the Amalfi Coast this past year. We experienced the amazing culinary destinations this special place has to offer, ...
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