At Waterfront Gourmet, we know a thing or two about a thing or two. Our area of expertise revolves around providing fresh, healthy, delicious dishes to our customers that present them with a novel experience every time. We’re committed to continuous improvement, and that means we’re always looking for new ways to spice up a dish, even if it’s already popular. The pursuit of perfection is an ongoing process, and it’s never done.
Right now, some of our locations are open for ordering by phone or online and for pick-up in store (though we also offer free local delivery) but we make our customers’ lives a lot easier and more colorful in other ways too. We don’t just provide fresh, healthy solutions for all meals of the day; we can revolutionize your event planning as well.
Why Cater?
Just as we offer distinguished delights for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, we also offer a refreshing take on catering in Philadelphia. Once you get a taste of our catered solutions, there will be no going back. But the first question you’ll probably want to ask yourself is, “Why cater?”
That’s a reasonable enough question if you have never had to organize an event before, but anyone who has will tell you that surprises wait around every corner. You have to arrange for recreation and entertainment, as well as pay for it. You need to coordinate invitations and manage the number of people that are slated to come. You need to secure a venue and a time that works for you and everyone else.
There’s no shortage of potential roadblocks that you need to foresee and overcome to plan a successful event that goes off without a hitch. Partnering with a Philadelphia catering company that knows its market and provides wonderfully delicious offerings can just take some of that extra work off of your plate.
What We Can Do
Unlike some corporate caterers, we don’t just saddle with you a preset list of menu items and leave you on your own to make heads or tails of it. Our full-service catering company can provide you with solutions for any type of event, any meal of the day, and any set of tastes. Here are just a few of the types of events that we can help cater and how we can make it easier for you.
Corporate Events
Corporate events are some of the most frequently catered events out there for multiple reasons. A corporate event, whether it be a trade show of sorts or just some kind of interdepartmental convention is going to involve a lot of people that may not be used to working together. That means there will be a lot of tastes in one place at one time, and tastes rarely agree.
On top of that, no one’s happy when he or she has to go hungry, and corporate events make no difference in that matter. Plus, there’s no designated chef for more corporate events and no kitchen either! Therefore, if you need to look after the food you will provide your guests and are responsible for coordinating the event, it behooves you to work with a caterer.
Working with a Philadelphia catering company will just take a layer of stress off of you that you don’t need to deal with. You have enough in front of you when it comes to coordinating a corporate event or meeting and should leave the provision of the food to the pros; that’s our specialty.
Client Meetings
Under the umbrella of certain types of corporate events are client meetings, and in some client meetings, the stakes can be high. In the first place, you’ll be working with those on whom your business depends, and in the next place, that’s no time to roll the dice on client satisfaction.
If dining is to be expected in a client meeting, and it usually is, then you should not spare expense when it comes to finding a full-service caterer that can provide you with fresh, healthy, and delicious offerings. If you need to impress your corporate clients with a great lunch or a few refreshments to hold them over between dedicated meals, we have plenty to offer on our catering menu.
It’s even more important to impress your clients with some nice catering than it is to keeping everyone within the organization satisfied. While no one wants to be the one to set up an internal meeting that doesn’t offer a meal, you don’t want to be the one to let a client down. Spend some time getting to know what your clients are going to expect and then you can give us a call to put together the ideal catered selection.
Breakfast Catering Services
Take a moment to reflect and figure out what time of the day is most frequently encountered, wherein everyone is hungry and no one wants to be responsible for providing the meal. Morning people aside, if you thought the morning, then you hit the nail on the head.
It doesn’t make a difference if the scope of this argument covers early morning business meetings or you’re just hosting a private event early in the morning and need to provide some coffee, tea, juice, and breakfast sandwiches or bagels. What matters is that you can pull it off, and rarely does anyone want to be tasked with cooking in the morning and then cleaning up for it, let alone for a crowd.
Some caterers don’t provide breakfast catering, but at Waterfront Gourmet we’re proud to offer breakfast catering in Philadelphia that will leave all the members of your event or meeting comfortable and satisfied. Some days you just need some coffee and other light refreshments to make an early morning event go off without a hitch, and other times you need a solid game plan for a full-sized breakfast to feed a crowd. Either way, no job is too large or too small for us, and we’d be more than happy to put together a full catered event with delicious food to keep everyone happy.
Birthday Parties
Birthday parties can be small, intimate gatherings or they can be meticulously planned gatherings of upwards of 100 people. Whether you need your little intimate event to go off without a hitch or you need to cater to the tastes of many (no pun intended) our catering services can make a huge difference in your planning.
That’s especially true if you happen to be hosting the birthday party as well, as you’ll already be responsible for prep, cleaning, organizing, and all of the myriad other responsibilities that go into event planning and execution. Cut yourself a break, and the next time you need to plan a birthday party, do yourself a favor and take advantage of our catering.
Weddings
Wedding planning is not only notoriously time consuming, but it is also notoriously expensive. If you can provide yourself with a way to put some more time and money back in your camp, you should do it by all means.
Weddings often have hundreds of attendees, each with their own tastes and dietary concerns. Even if the wedding will be catered onsite, depending on where you hold the reception you might need to provide an additional meal or more refreshments for the participants. Even if you only need to provide the partygoers with some light refreshments at the reception, our catering can go the distance. We’re consultative and attention and we’d be more than happy to come up with a catered menu that meets your needs, no matter how big or how small.
Reunions
Reunions have immense potential to be highly personal, but they also have a lot of room to be impersonal, and when you aren’t entirely sure what to be ready for, you should be ready for anything. That means coming up with a catered menu that meets many different tastes, some of which may be picky. It also means that you should provide some healthy offerings for those with dietary restrictions or preferences. Many of our menu items are not only vegetarian or vegan; we also offer many gluten-free options on our menu. There might be a lot of people at a reunion and you need to make sure you go with a Philadelphia catering company that knows its way around a menu that can please many different tastes.
Holidays
Holidays and holiday parties are another of those types of events that can be so difficult to plan since it’s one of those situations in which you will need to provide a meal for the attendees. It’s common enough to do your cooking at home on Christmas and Thanksgiving, but from time to time even the best of us need a break. Therefore, we’d be glad to help take some work out of your camp by providing your friends and loved ones with healthy, delicious catering.
Surprise Parties
Finally, we’d like to draw some attention to some inconvenient truths surrounding surprise parties. You can’t throw a surprise wedding, and you can’t throw a surprise corporate event, but the last three categories of festivities can definitely be thrown under the guise of a surprise to some of the participants. Birthdays, anniversaries, showers, and other types of parties can be elevated when you put in the time and effort to make them surprise parties.
And they do take a lot of time and effort because you need to do all of the work of planning a party while at the same time keeping your efforts hidden from the people that are going to be surprised, whether it’s one person or a couple. The other thing to keep in mind is that you need to do everything under wraps while you’re planning it, which means cooking on site can be a trip.
What you can do is work with a Philadelphia catering company to put together a menu that will satisfy the people that will be celebrating and have it delivered at the ideal time. Not only is that convenient, but that will be able to save you time and it might even be able to help you keep your initiative a secret while you’re planning.
Always Fresh, Always Amazing
Whether you come into one of our locations for a freshly made treat or take advantage of our catering in Philadelphia, everything we provide is always fresh, always amazing. Insomuch as that respects our catering services, here’s something else you should know. Not only do we create many of our dishes from fresh, locally sourced ingredients; everything we provide is prepared fresh to order. That means that your catered order will be prepared freshly for you, whether it’s early in the morning or later in the day. Freshness matters, and we understand that. That’s one of the simple reasons that we prepare everything fresh.
Free Delivery
We’ve made the point a few times by now that part of the value of catering is in the fact that it will save you some time and alleviate your workload. Most caterers understand this and charge commensurately, even charging you for the value of the delivery. We like to keep the focus on the food, and we don’t want you to have to worry about delivery; that’s why when you place a catered order with us, we deliver for free in the Philadelphia area. That way, we give you just one less thing to worry about or account for.
Get in Touch with Us!
Our mission is to make the lives of our customers easier and more enjoyable through the flavors of the catered solutions we provide. If you want to learn more about our catering in Philadelphia, get in touch with one of our locations. We’ll let you know what we can offer and work with you to come up with a menu that works for your event and the attendees. If you were looking for a Philadelphia catering company, then today is your lucky day because we aim to please; just give us a call to find out how.
