Drop-off catering
- Cooked in our kitchen, delivered and set out in your room, then we leave
- Recurring team lunches and training days
- A standing weekly order on a rotating menu
- Not cooked on site
Corporate catering · Milwaukee
Your client lunch should not taste like it rode across town.
We bring the kitchen and cook at your building, fired when the room is ready. Yours does not need a kitchen. The difference shows up in the chicken.
From our kitchen
Lunch, cooked in your building.
The lunch we bring: salads, boards, passed bites and a plated main. Tap any plate for its course on the menu.
Four ways to feed the office
With a crew or without one, from the same kitchen.
Two are dropped or collected. Two are cooked in your building. When the food itself is the point, book a crew.
Pick-up catering
- Ordered ahead, collected by somebody on your team
- The least expensive way to feed a group from our menu
- Not cooked on site
Buffet, with a crew
- Chef-attended lines, mains cooked at your building
- From 40 guests to 400 or more
- Kitchen, staff and bar from one company, on one proposal
Plated, with a crew
- Coursed and individually plated when the room is seated
- 40 to 250 guests
- The most staff of the four, still one invoice.
Ranges are typical, not limits; if yours sits outside, ask.
There is also the truck: window service for a company lunch, from a $3,000 minimum.
Why it matters at work
A board lunch has a harder timing problem than a wedding.
A wedding can start ten minutes late. A meeting cannot. Food that traveled to get here has already been sitting.
With our mobile kitchen parked at your building, a timeline that moves is a word with the chef, not a problem. Food goes out the moment the room is ready, kitchen or no kitchen.
The unglamorous part
The things that decide whether you book us twice
One invoice, and it matches the proposal
Line items and terms agreed before the event. No extras you did not approve.
One team on site
Chefs, servers and bartenders all work for us, so a problem that day is fixed by someone already in the room.
Dietary requirements handled, not improvised
Send the list with the headcount and every restricted guest gets a plated or clearly labeled portion.
Who sets the clock
The agenda slips. The chef hears it before you do.
Board lunches, holiday parties, training days and award nights all run on someone else’s clock, so we plate when the room is seated and run stations when it has to keep moving.
How it works
Start with three details.
The date, headcount and building get you an itemized proposal, not a range; add service style and bar if you know them. We arrange parking for the kitchen and timing with your facilities team, then cook there, fired when the room is ready.
Questions
Corporate catering, answered.
How far ahead should we book?
Three to four weeks for an office lunch, eight to twelve for a hundred guests with staff, and by mid-October for a December party. December dates go first.
What does corporate catering cost in Milwaukee?
Ours is an itemized proposal from date, headcount and building; ask Alexa. For scale, FlashCater puts Milwaukee drop-off lunches at $11 to $23 a head and full service at $24 to $55 and up; BarMasters puts a national beer-and-wine package at $15 to $30 a head, plus an 18 to 22 percent service charge.
Can you cater in an office that has no kitchen?
Yes. The kitchen arrives on the truck, so all we need from your building is a legal place to park it near the room and a way to carry the food in.
How far will you travel?
Southeastern Wisconsin: Milwaukee, Waukesha, Ozaukee, Washington and Racine counties. Farther out is quoted case by case; ask Alexa.
Do you invoice, or is it payment up front?
Invoiced, with your purchase-order number, a line-item breakdown and terms agreed before the event. The proposal and the invoice carry the same numbers, unless your headcount changes after the deadline.
Can you handle dietary restrictions across a large team?
Yes, routinely. Allergies, gluten-free, vegetarian, vegan and religious requirements go into the menu with the headcount, so nothing is substituted at the last minute.
Can you send a W-9, a vendor form or a certificate of insurance?
Yes. A W-9 or vendor form usually goes out the same day. A certificate of insurance naming your landlord as additional insured comes from our broker, so ask for it early.
Next step
Tell us the date and the headcount.
An itemized proposal, invoiced with your purchase-order number. Alexa answers, usually the same day. No building for a hundred? Oak Barrel’s second floor takes 180.
Request a quoteOr call Alexa directly at 414-518-6746