Perkins Restaurant & Bakery Launches Egg-Ceptional Catering Program Nationwide with Homestyle Faves

Perkins Restaurant and Bakery®, a leading family dining brand, is springing into the Easter season, offering a delectable selection of homestyle favorites at over 180 locations. Perkins is bringing the brand's iconic breakfast, bakery, burgers, and more to help guests stress less with life's special moments. The Perkins catering menu features affordable homestyle favorites with generous portion sizes, all held to the highest freshness and quality standards.

"At Perkins, we're excited to introduce our catering program, bringing our signature dishes to your special moments...

Q4 Trends Report: Catering Orders Surge with New Digital Ordering Channels, Food & Alcohol Insights 

Toast, the all-in-one digital platform built for restaurants, today announced its Q4 2023 Restaurant Trends Report, providing insight into the overall state of the U.S. restaurant industry through an analysis of aggregated data from selected cohorts of restaurants and in select U.S. metropolitan areas on the Toast platform, which serves approximately 106,000 restaurant locations as of December 31, 2023. Read more details about our methodology below.

This report looks into catering and large event transactions on the Toast platform, trends in...

Enjoy the Season with Dickey’s Heat and Serve Holiday Feasts

Dickey’s Barbecue Pit knows the holidays are the perfect time to sit back and enjoy some Texas-style with friends and family. With significant holiday sales so far this year, the Dickey’s team was thrilled to secure plenty of Smoked Turkeys, Prime Ribs, Cajun Turkeys, and Spiral Cut Hams for you to enjoy at a fantastic price.

Give your favorite pit master a break this holiday season and let Dickey’s do the cooking for you. The barbecue brand recognizes that we have a lot to be grateful for...

Sprouts Farmers Market Partners with Instacart's FoodStorm to Enhance Holiday Catering Services

Sprouts Farmers Market, one of the largest and fastest growing specialty retailers of fresh, natural, and organic food in the United States, and Instacart (NASDAQ: CART), the leading grocery technology company in North America, today announced a new partnership to launch FoodStorm, Instacart's order management system (OMS), across all of Sprouts' 400+ locations. The new partnership will help streamline Sprouts' existing catering operations and modernize its holiday inventory management, ensuring a seamless holiday season experience for its customers and store team members...

Spend More Time Making Family Memories with Cracker Barrel's Holiday Heat n' Serve Meals

With the average American spending over nine hours in the kitchen preparing Thanksgiving dinner from scratch, Cracker Barrel Old Country Store® can handle the cooking – all season long – with convenient catering and holiday meal options for any size gathering.

Entertaining just got easier with the return Thanksgiving Heat n' Serve meals and new catering menu items like Country Fried Turkey and Broccoli Cheese Casserole. Plus, popular holiday dishes like Cinnamon Roll Pie are back by popular demand for dine-in or curbside pickup...

The Fresh Market Ushers in the Thanksgiving Season Earlier Than Ever This Year!

The Fresh Market is helping its guests prepare for a fabulous Thanksgiving celebration this year, with order-ahead now available, a special holiday print edition of The Fresh Market Magazine, and a bodacious livestream featuring brand ambassador and Chef Anna Rossi.

With the holiday season quickly approaching, The Fresh Market wants to take the stress out of cooking by saving guests time in the kitchen so they can focus on what matters most this time of year: being with family and friends...

Olo Introduces Catering+ to Streamline Bulk Ordering and Drive Added Revenue for Restaurant Brands

Olo Inc. (NYSE:OLO), a leading open SaaS platform for restaurants, today announced the launch of Catering+, an enterprise-grade solution purpose-built to enable seamless order management and unlock additional revenue for its more than 600 restaurant brands. Several additional features and enhancements are available now across Olo’s three product suites, Order, Pay, and Engage, to help restaurants drive sales, improve operations, and deliver a better guest experience.

As market research shows a resurgence in catering demand, Olo’s enhanced catering offering, Catering+, simplifies...

P.F. Chang’s Enhances Catering Capabilities with Cartwheel

Renowned restaurant brand P.F. Chang’s is revolutionizing its catering capabilities through a strategic collaboration with Cartwheel, the leading enterprise delivery management platform.

Cartwheel recently invested in integrating with ezCater, the most trusted provider of corporate food solutions. This integration further streamlines and optimizes catering management and delivery capabilities for the restaurant chain and centralizes once disparate channels into a single, unified platform. Efficient order and delivery management lead to exceptional customer experiences, which, in turn, drive repeat orders.

P.F. Chang’s has worked with Cartwheel to power deliveries through its online catering channels since...

Jimmy John's Fans Rejoice – Wraps are Here to Stay Along with New Catering Offerings

Starting today, Jimmy John’s®, known for their iconic Summer Wraps (which are usually only available for a limited time), is giving fans exactly what they’ve desired: for Wraps to be permanently added to the menu. That’s right, Wraps are here for good, with three flavor combos including two fan favorites:

• The classic Chicken Caesar Wrap – fans can’t get enough of the beloved Chicken Caesar Wrap so adding this one permanently to the menu was a no-brainer. Featuring all-natural chicken, parmesan cheese, creamy...

Cater Your Summertime Gathering with Dickey’s Barbecue Pit

Dickey’s Barbecue Pit is offering barbecue lovers across the country multiple pack options to help beat the heat this summer.

Summertime is the season for picnics, pool parties and family reunions. Therefore, Dickey’s Packs are a great option for your gathering of any size. With a variety of pit-smoked meats and fan favorite sides to choose from, Texas-style barbecue fans can now order the following pack options:

• Family Pack (starting at $61.60) – two choices of meats, three large sides and six slices of Texas toast. Feeds four to six...

ezCater Brings Wawa’s Signature Sizzli® Sandwich and Hoagies to Workplaces Across the Mid-Atlantic and Florida

ezCater, the most trusted provider of corporate food solutions, and Wawa Inc. today announced the launch of all Wawa locations on the ezCater marketplace. Now, workplaces can order Wawa’s signature breakfast sandwiches, like the Sizzli®, and hoagies, from 1,000 store locations across Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jersey, Maryland, Virginia, Florida, and Washington, D.C.

​“Thanks to this new partnership with ezCater, we now have the ability to reach more business customers with our fresh offers, perfect for breakfast, meetings, and corporate events...

Cracker Barrel Old Country Store Offers Guests New, Convenient Catering Options 

Cracker Barrel Old Country Store® adds new Sirloin Steak Tips Bundle and Barrel Cheeseburger Slider Platter to its catering menu just in time for summer holiday gatherings with family and friends. Alongside new catering additions, guests can pick up or have delivered a new Sirloin Steak Tips n' Tenders Family Meal Basket prepared and ready to serve to the whole family. Whether hosting a summer celebration for the whole neighborhood or needing a simple weeknight meal for the family, Cracker Barrel has an abundance...