Corporate Catering in Ottawa

Client receptions and appreciation evenings

A reception runs on movement. Guests arrive across forty minutes, hold a drink and want food they can eat one-handed while a conversation keeps going. We place the display away from the entrance so arrivals pull through the floor, keep the glassware surface separate, and plan the replenishment so the table still looks deliberate at the ninety-minute mark when the client you invited finally gets to it. What stands on it is a grazing table scaled to a reception, and our grazing tables page carries how one is composed.

Product launch and grand opening catering in Ottawa

A launch compresses a lot into two hours: a demo or a speech, a photographer working the whole time, and a space that has to look finished from the moment the first person walks in. Setup timing carries more weight here than menu breadth.

• Built and photographed before doors, with a confirmed finish time
• Colour story matched to brand palette where it helps the photographs
• Replenishment staged out of the camera line
• Printed menu cards naming every item, for guests and for the photographs

Employee appreciation, work anniversaries and team celebrations

Employee appreciation catering, staff appreciation events, work anniversaries, company anniversaries, service awards, project completions, promotions and end-of-quarter afternoons all share the same practical brief: make the team feel looked after without assigning somebody in the office to run the food. A styled table reads as effort at a glance and lets a mixed group serve themselves across a lunch hour or an after-work window.

Networking evenings

Networking food has to survive being eaten standing, one-handed, beside somebody the guest has just met. Pieces finish in two bites, nothing needs a knife or drips, and at least a third of the menu stays vegetarian and spread across the display so nobody has to hunt or ask. Our reception catering page carries the piece counts and the hot-to-cold split in detail.

Access is what breaks corporate catering

The building is the variable, and it is the one we ask about first. A forty-minute build with no lift access becomes ninety minutes, and a security desk with no name on the list becomes a stand in the lobby.

• Loading dock or front door, and how long the carry is from either
• Service lift booking, which many downtown and Centretown buildings require in advance
• Security sign-in, with our names sent through the day before
• A named setup window agreed with your facilities contact and written into the quote
• Where used plates and glasses go during the event, and who clears them
• Collection of serving pieces the same day or the next morning

Invoicing, POs and how the paperwork lands

A corporate enquiry goes furthest when it names the billing entity, the PO number if your finance team issues one, and the accounts email, because then the first quote is the one that gets approved. A $600 minimum applies before delivery and taxes, delivery and on-site styling are $45 within 25 km, and every figure is quoted before tax so the number that reaches your approver is the real one.

Dietary labelling as standard

Every corporate table ships with written cards. Vegetarian, vegan and gluten-aware items are marked, and any item carrying a common allergen is named on its card in plain language. Gather the dietary needs with the RSVPs, including the guests from outside the company, and a serious allergy is settled with us before the booking.

Insurance certificates at a client venue

Client events often land in a managed building or a hotel room that asks every supplier for a certificate of insurance. OH! has no liability policy in its own name today and cannot supply one; the premises cover of the kitchen we rent belongs to that facility. Put the venue’s rules in the first message, and you will know where the booking stands before anyone signs.

Service staff on the floor

A styled corporate table is self-serve by design: built before doors, replenished on the plan agreed for your date, packed down at the end. Whether we can also put a person on the floor is answered for your date, the way our reception catering page describes.

December office parties

December runs on its own rules: the dates go first, the venue is usually a rented space with a fixed booking block, and the cancellation window matters more to a December booker than to anyone else in the year. Our Christmas party catering page carries the seasonal planning and the dates to watch. The workplace evening itself, with the invoicing and the building access it needs, is on our office Christmas party catering page.

What moves a corporate number

Two decisions move a corporate quote more than the menu does: whether the table is the meal or an appetiser standing beside a bar, and how much build time the building allows before doors. Both are settled before the quote goes out, and the quote splits food, styling and delivery onto their own lines so each one survives the approval it has to pass. The published rates, the event minimum and the deposit and cancellation terms are on our pricing page, and the areas we deliver into are on our locations page.