Corporate Catering for Companies and Offices

A company meal usually has a room booked around it. The training day ends at one. The appreciation lunch has to fit inside a shift pattern without breaking it. The picnic runs from noon and people arrive when their morning allows.

Our lines go just as fast as any normal buffet, and the buffet stays open afterward for seconds. When you send an inquiry, we'll give you an estimate of how long it will take to serve your guests. We are cooking on site throughout, so the food at the end of the window is the same as the food at the start of it.

Catering, or having us come and sell?

Worth sorting out in the first message, because the two work completely differently.

Catering is where the company pays and staff eat for free. You pick the menu, we quote against your headcount, and nobody takes out a wallet. Employee appreciation days, company picnics, client events, training lunches, holiday parties. That is what this page covers.

Vending is where we park up and sell to your people directly. It costs the company nothing at all. Most shift-break visits to plants work this way, and so do regular lunch visits to a workplace. That side is covered in event vending.

If you are not sure which one you want, describe what you are trying to do and we will tell you which fits. Plenty of companies start with one and end up doing the other.

Company picnics and family days

The opposite shape of problem. Instead of everybody at once, people drift in across three hours, with children, and nobody knows how many will actually come. A buffet set out at noon for a crowd that peaks at two is a difficult afternoon.

Cooking to order handles a long arrival window better than any amount of planning does. That is the whole argument in catering a company picnic.

Client events, open houses and appreciation days

A trailer parked outside is a reason to come over, and a served meal is a reason to stay. For an open house or a dealership event, the truck does a job a tray of sandwiches does not: it gives people something to look at and a queue to talk in.

These work well as Loaded Truck, where guests order at the window, or as Loaded Stations if you would rather keep everyone inside.

Three ways it can run

For an indoor event in a conference room or a break room, Loaded Stations is usually the answer, and it is the default in winter for the obvious reason. For anything where people are already outside, the window works and the trailer earns its keep as a talking point.

Numbers

We serve up to 400 guests for the Loaded Bar and up to 300 for Loaded Stations. Guest counts at a workplace event are usually a guess until the day. That is fine. A rough number at booking is all we need to start. About a week before the event we confirm your final guest count, your entree picks and the serving time. A rough potato-versus-pasta split comes about two weeks out, and an estimate is genuinely fine there.

Small counts are worth asking about rather than assuming. Whether a twenty-guest event works comes down to where the truck already is that day. It is always worth asking. Sizing is covered in how many guests we can serve.

What a site needs

For a one-day event, nothing. We are self contained and need no power, no water and no kitchen. What we do need is somewhere to put a trailer:

• The trailer is 22 feet long and is towed by a full-size Chevy van, so it needs a route in and room to maneuver into the spot.
• Solid ground. A trailer this heavy will sink or get stuck in soft ground, and that matters most after a wet week.
• Nothing else for catering or a one-day festival. We are self contained.
• For festivals of two days or more, a 50-amp RV-style outlet within 50 feet, and access to potable water.

Parking lots are the easy case. Grass after a wet week is the one worth mentioning when you book, because a stuck trailer is a bad start to a company picnic.

Invoicing and paperwork

Every booking is a written contract, so what was agreed is written down before anyone turns up. Checks carry no processing fee, which matters more for a company than for a couple. If your purchasing process needs something specific on an invoice, say so at booking and we will put it there rather than reissuing it afterwards.

What is inside the number is covered in what catering costs.

Other events on the same shape

The same arrival-window problem turns up outside work, and every write-up is listed under planning guides. Graduation parties run as open houses for four hours. Family reunions feed three generations with different ideas about dinner. Birthday parties are smaller and the timing question is the same one.

Booking

Tell us the date, the site, a rough headcount and the exact window you need people fed inside. That last one is the piece most inquiries leave out and it is the one that decides the answer.

Call 931-271-7455, email nicholas@itsloaded.com, or send the details. We cater across Middle Tennessee, North Alabama and North Georgia, bounded by Nashville to the north, Huntsville to the west, Dalton, Georgia to the south and Cookeville to the northeast.