For caterers

More corporate events
for your catering business.

Event Captain finds the corporate planners near you, gets them familiar with your food, and follows up until they're ready to book.

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Trusted by 150+ businesses across North America, from catering companies to mobile food vendors.

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The problem

Marketplaces rent you orders. They keep the customers.

Catering marketplaces and ordering apps will send you work, but that is all they send. You never get the customer data, so you cannot build the relationship yourself. The planner belongs to the platform, not to you, which leaves you at their mercy: their commissions, their fees, their rules.

And the work is unpredictable. Orders spike and disappear with no pattern you can staff or plan around, because you never see the pipeline, only whatever comes through the app that week.

The caterers winning the best corporate work win it directly: repeat office lunches, holiday parties, and staffed events from planners who know their name. Event Captain builds you that list of planners at companies near you, and follows up until the timing is right, so you own the relationship instead of renting it.

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How it works

We find them. You close them.

We find the planners, run the outreach, and bring past clients back. You focus on the food.

01

We build your list

We identify the corporate planners at companies near you: office managers, executive assistants, and HR people. Then we get your catering on their radar.

  • Every company visible in your dashboard
  • List keeps growing as we find more planners
  • Your suppression list applied before a single email

02

We run the outreach

Personalized emails introduce your catering from warmed sending domains. Nothing touches your domain reputation, and nothing lands on your plate.

  • Sending accounts set up and managed for you
  • Follow up until they're ready to book
  • Every reply lands directly with your team

03

We re-engage your past clients

Your warmest leads already ordered from you once. We run re-engagement campaigns from your own domain, so repeat orders come back without your team lifting a finger.

  • Win-back, last-order anniversary, and seasonal
  • Each campaign toggled individually
  • Do Not Contact list honored on every send

04

You close the bookings

Interested planners reply straight to your team. You quote the menu, you close the order.

  • Replies go to your chosen contact
  • Every booking tracked in your dashboard
  • You stay focused on running your kitchen

Your dashboard: every company on your list, every reply, every booking.

Proof

Caterers winning more corporate work

Summerville Burrito Co. catering setup

Proof

"I would 1000% recommend Event Captain, completely worth it for us, and we're very excited to see what happens next."

Robert CassiRobert Cassi, Owner, Summerville Burrito Co.

Summerville Burrito Co. used Event Captain to reduce its reliance on third-party platforms and win more direct corporate catering work.

What books

The events caterers win

Corporate planners feed their teams more often than you think.

Weekly office lunches

The steadiest catering revenue there is. Teams that order lunch every Friday from the caterer they trust.

Drop-off catering

Meetings, trainings, and working lunches. High volume, simple execution, ordered again and again.

Healthcare lunch-and-learns

Pharma and medical device reps cater lunch for medical and dental practices on a regular cycle. Win over one rep and the orders keep coming.

Holiday parties

High value and booked months ahead. Planners start asking about December in September.

Breakfast meetings

The most overlooked daypart. Morning meetings need coffee and pastries from a caterer who shows up on time.

On-site activations

Food trucks, carts, and pop-ups at company events. Your setup becomes the entertainment.

FAQ

Questions caterers ask

We get most of our orders from third-party platforms. Will this still work?
Yes. Platforms are a fine source of orders, but they take a cut of every one, keep the customer data, and own the relationship. Event Captain builds you a direct pipeline alongside them: planners who know your name and order from you directly. Summerville Burrito Co. used it to reduce its reliance on third-party platforms.
We're a food truck or mobile vendor, not a traditional caterer. Does this work for us?
Yes. We work with mobile operators too: food trucks, carts, and pop-up setups. We build your list around the companies in your service area and shape the outreach around the events you serve best.
Will outreach hurt our reputation or spam people?
No. Emails go out from our sending domains, never yours, so your domain reputation is untouched. Every campaign targets corporate planners at companies near you, and anyone who opts out never hears from us again.
Does Event Captain replace our sales team?
Most catering businesses don't have a sales team at all. We become the outreach arm you don't have to hire: we find interested planners and start the conversation. Your team quotes the menu and closes the order.
How much of my time does this take?
Almost none during setup. We build your list, write the outreach, and warm the sending domains over two weeks. Nothing is required from you. After launch, your only job is the part you would do for any order: reply to interested planners and send the quote.
Can we control what kinds of events come in?
Yes. During setup we talk through the events you want most, the order sizes you handle best, and the days you want to fill, and we shape your list and outreach around that. If you only want weekday drop-offs for 20 or more, that is what we go after.
We operate in multiple cities. How does pricing work?
Pricing is per location, so each kitchen gets its own list and outreach built around the companies near it.
How fast will we see bookings?
Setup takes two weeks: we build your list, warm the sending domains, and write your outreach. After launch, interested planners reply directly to your team, and bookings follow as conversations mature.
What does it cost?
One flat rate: $400 per month. No contracts, cancel anytime.
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