Holiday Office Party Catering in Toronto: Doing It Properly

The December office party is the one catered meal your team actually remembers. Here is how not to waste it.

The holiday party is the one catered meal of the year your team will actually remember, and most companies spend real money making it forgettable.

Book in October, not December

December is the tightest month in the catering calendar. Every kitchen in the city is booked out with corporate parties. If you are reading this in November, you are already late. Book the date first and figure out the menu later.

Feed the room you actually have

A Toronto office is a mixed room. Halal as your base is not a special accommodation, it is the practical default. It works for far more of your team than it excludes and nobody who eats non-halal food is remotely bothered by it.

Then: one vegetarian dish, one mild dish. That is the whole inclusion problem solved, and it costs you nothing extra.

Hot food, always

A cold sandwich platter in December is a punishment. Hot, aromatic food in a cold month is genuinely one of the cheapest goodwill purchases available to a manager. It costs about the same.

Budget

18 to 25 dollars a head for a real spread. A 40-person team is roughly 800 to 1,000 dollars. That is not a big number for the one event people talk about in January.

Order 20 percent over

Holiday parties pull in people from other teams, plus-ones, and people who said they were not coming. Running out is worse than leftovers.

Booking

We are a family-run halal Sri Lankan and Indian kitchen in Scarborough and we cater corporate events across the GTA. Catering starts at 20 dollars per person with a 20-guest minimum. Book December early. See corporate catering pricing and setup, or the catering page.