Waterfront Gourmet doesn’t just provide the Philadelphia area with dishes and picks that are always fresh, always awesome every day. We also can provide you with unique solutions in catering if you find yourself saddled with event planning.
Our catering team has been cooking up fresh, delicious solutions for catered events in Philadelphia since 2014 and we’d love to help make your big day go off without a hitch. Here’s why you should consider a Philadelphia catering company, and what you should look for in one.
Why Cater?
First, you might have wondered if you should take advantage of catering services in the first place, especially given the size of the event in question. Every event is different, and there’s no doubt that wedding catering is going to be different in scope from a catered solution for a corporate event. Still, here’s why you should consider a caterer.
A full-service catering company, like ours, can help you delegate out some of the responsibility for a planned event and save you time to get back to what else is important. Namely, that is selecting a venue, coordinating invitations and arranging seating, and providing for entertainment. A caterer is a specialist when it comes to creating culinary solutions and delivering them. In short, a caterer can help you ensure that you’re serving up quality meals for your guests while saving you time to focus on other priorities.
What Matters Most
Although a caterer offers you the ability to get back to what matters in planning, there are still some key things you should investigate while you are looking for a Philadelphia catering company. To make sure you are going with a top-notch caterer, for example, Waterfront Gourmet, check out the following.
Diversity of Menu Items and Flexibility
One of the most important things to look for in a caterer is a diversity of menu items. Whether you’re looking for Philly catering or catering elsewhere, it’s important that you find a service provider that can offer you a broad menu.
This is important for two very important reasons. First, it is important to suit the event appropriately. If you need a caterer for an early morning corporate client meeting, then you will probably need to find a breakfast catering that offers breakfast foods, coffee, and tea. At the same time, if you need a caterer for an evening meal, you will be looking at very different offerings.
The second reason that you should be looking for catering with a broad, diverse, even flexible menu, is because some of your guests may have dietary restrictions or preferences. Of course, you’ll be dealing with some picky eaters from time to time, but we’re talking about people who keep to a vegan or vegetarian diet or even those who require gluten-free meals. In order to provide a quality experience for those guests, you’ll have to work with a caterer that meets their needs.
Freshness
Freshness is also critically important when you are looking for a Philadelphia catering company (or a caterer anywhere, not just catering in Philadelphia). Some caterers prepare their offerings beforehand and then chill or freeze them in order to help them deliver everything in a timely fashion, but that’s not how we run things here at Waterfront Gourmet.
Whether you need a huge wedding catered or just a small, intimate dinner party, we prepare your caterers meals freshly on the day-of for delivery. When you work with us you can be sure that your food is always freshly prepared. In addition, we make a habit of using local ingredients in any dishes that we can, to keep things as fresh as possible.
A Caterer Who Puts Your Needs First
It’s also important to work with a caterer who places a great emphasis on customer service. In order to come up with a catered solution that works for your event, a caterer needs to become familiar with the venue, the location, the timing, and the guests. They can only do so by fluid communication with you. Call one of our locations if you want to learn more about our catering services. We’d be glad to tell you more and work out a plan for a catered solution for you.
Come Try Us Out!
Something else you should look for in a caterer is one that is flexible, and some will tell you to try out their offerings beforehand. Some of our locations are currently open for order online or by phone and pick up, and we would love to see you! Try out some of our fresh menu items, crafted from locally sourced ingredients, if you want to get a taste of what catering with us will be like – literally!
Check out our page on catering as well as our listing of locations and hours and give us a call if you want to learn more about what we can offer. We’d love to hear from you, and we’d love even more to change the way you think about catering.
