How to Plan Catering for 10 to 300 People Without the Stress

Catering an event should not feel like a second job. After years of feeding offices, birthdays, graduations, and company parties across Whittier, LA County, and North Orange County, we have the process down to something simple: tell us your headcount, and we will tell you the price in one email.

Start with the headcount, not the menu. Whether you are feeding 10 people or 300, the number drives everything else. Our packages scale cleanly, so a taco bar for 15 and a taco bar for 150 are both easy orders.

Pick a format that fits the event. Interactive bars, think Taco Bar, Pasta Bar, Build-Your-Own Burger Bar, or Omelette Bar, keep a party moving and feed picky eaters without special requests. Trays and packages, like our pasta trays, salad trays, and Hand-Crafted Sandwich packages, work better for office lunches where people grab and go.

Do not forget the bookends. Appetizer platters like the Gourmet Cheese Platter or Grilled Chicken Skewers keep early arrivals happy, and Fresh Baked Cookies close the event on a high note. Beverage stations handle the drinks so you do not have to think about them.

The part people worry about most: delivery. We show up on time with food that does not taste like it sat in a warming tray. That is the whole reputation, and we protect it.

Breakfast meetings, holiday parties, team lunches, family celebrations, we have built menus for all of them. Start your order at our catering page or browse options on californiagrill.com, and let a family owned Whittier kitchen handle the food while you handle the fun.

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