Organizing your finances may be the last thing on your mind right now, especially if your business is just struggling to survive. “So many food-based businesses are pivoting right now, and pivoting in multiple directions.
Known for its sustainable seafood and Southern hospitality, Truluck’s in The Woodlands, Texas, transformed into a Winter Wonderland for this 75-guest holiday party on Dec. 6, 2019. The event is one of five nominees for Catered Event of the Year in the 2020 NACE One Awards (in the on-premise, budget $50,000-$100,000 category).
Every two weeks, 11 successful catering CEOs from across the country meet via Zoom. Our sales range from $1 million to $13 million. For our first couple of meetings in March, we used the “pivot” mantra. But since that time, every one of us committed to immediate performance that will guarantee our company’s sustainability.
Some decades ago, South Carolina-based chef and food writer Belinda Smith-Sullivan started her work life as a flight attendant based out of New York. “Back then we were called ‘stewardesses,’ just to give you an idea how long ago that was,” she says with a chuckle.
All industries have been changed by COVID-19. Every owner in the market has lost sleep, planned for a bad quarter, then planned for another.
With roots on the Greek island of Ikaria, Diane Kochilas knows first-hand the health benefits of a Greek diet.
On June 5, Indianapolis-based Thomas Caterers of Distinction catered its first full-service event post-COVID-19: a wedding reception for Jackie and Sean Linehan at Black Iris Estate, a Thomas Caterers venue in Carmel, Ind.
Let’s face it—the business plans you made for 2020 have long been abandoned. No one could have foreseen the COVID-19 crisis or its dramatic impact on the industry.
COVID-19 continues to blaze its fearful path across our country, while government stay-at-home mandates and prohibitions on even the smallest gatherings have brought
2020 wasn’t supposed to be this way. The COVID-19 crisis and the resulting devastation in the industry have waylaid all the plans catering companies may have had for the
