4 Creative Corporate Catering Menu Ideas
Posted on Fri, Feb 17, 2012 @ 05:40 AM
You don’t have to settle for just box lunches as the only lunch menu for corporate and office catering in Dallas Fort Worth. Box lunches have their place and are appropriate for working lunches, lunches where limited time to serve people is at a minimum, and even to offer people departing from a long morning meeting who will have no chance to get lunch on the way back to the airport or to a distant office.
You can be the hero of the office and offer a hot lunch either as a buffet or served as a banquet. There are so many options available; menus can be as diverse as you want them to be. Certain foods, like fried anything, doesn’t cater well, but a professional caterers already knows that and will have catering menus designed that take all that into consideration.
When selecting what to serve, pick your entrée and build around that with a starch, vegetable and salad and you’ll thrill your attendants with a restaurant like meal, catered right in their office. No fuss for them, no travel time to lose, just a fresh hot meal ready to consume right on time. And, don’t forget about dessert! Dessert catering can be as simple as an assortment of cookies, dessert bars, cake, pies or tarts, or more striking as a parfait.
For meal ideas, consider the time of year, any particular holiday that might be near the date of your event, and any menu that would complement the purpose of the meeting. Or, pick a theme and create the menu around that. Themes might include:
Parmesan Crusted Chicken or any pasta dish like lasagna or ziti, combined with a great Caesar salad, some oven roasted squash or Italian green beans and Italian bread and let the eating begin.
Fajitas are big in Dallas! Offer a fajita bar featuring fajita beef and chicken strips, all the normal toppers, refried beans, Mexican style rice and flour tortillas with chips and fire roasted salsa or 7 layer dip and you’ll have a complete meal.
Asian Inspired Menus
Teriyaki beef or chicken, Asian rice and an Oriental vegetable blend of green beans, broccoli cuts, onions, mushrooms and red peppers complete with fortune cookies create a fun and different corporate catering menu.
International Menus
This office catering idea is to pick different items from different countries and put them together like:
Chicken Cordon Bleu, Duchess potatoes, herb crusted tomato and Caribbean vegetable blend (broccoli, green beans, yellow carrots and red peppers) offered with a golden dinner roll and you’ve covered several countries in this menu.
For more menu ideas, literally just think outside the box!