Office Christmas Party Catering in Ottawa

Twelve to fifty, in the room you already have

Most Ottawa office parties in this size band happen in the office: the largest meeting room, the kitchen island on the floor, the open area by the windows. The room decides the build. A boardroom credenza takes a short, tall composition; a kitchen island is reached from three sides and wants height in the middle; a cleared run of desks pushed together makes a long surface that reads like a proper table once it is covered. Send the length and depth of whatever you have and the composition is planned to it, with the end nearest the door kept clear so the queue forms away from the coats.

Weekday afternoon or after hours

The afternoon party, usually between two and four on a Thursday or Friday, sits between lunch and dinner. People have eaten, most of them will eat again at home, and the table is grazed across two hours by a group that keeps drifting back to it. Plan on the two-hour afternoon quantity, around six to nine pieces per guest. The after-hours party from five or six replaces dinner for almost everyone in the room, so the table is built as the meal: ten to fourteen pieces per guest over two hours, the substantial savoury category roughly doubled, and a second wave held back for the hour after the speeches.

Where to hold an office holiday party near Ottawa, with the catering included

Two places work for a team of roughly 12 to 50 guests: your own office and a rented room nearby, and OH! Catering brings the table to either one. The styled table is built on site before anyone leaves their desk, and delivery, the build and the pack-down sit on the same quote as the food. An office party in the office runs on the building’s rules: the loading dock or the front door, the service lift, the security desk, and whether the room is free for a setup window before anyone finishes work. Those four answers go in the first message and the quote carries a realistic arrival time. A rented room — a restaurant’s private space, a community hall, a hotel meeting room — books in a fixed block, which fixes the build window and the pack-down time, and many have their own rules about outside food. Both are confirmed with the venue before the quote goes out, so the day carries no surprises.

Budget per head, worked plainly

An afternoon grazing table for a team sits at the bottom of the $42–$65 per guest range, and an after-hours table that is the meal sits towards the top of it. At the starting price, 25 colleagues come to $1,050 before delivery; a team under 15 lands on the $600 minimum instead, and delivery with the build is $45 within 25 km. Every quote separates food, styling, delivery and travel so the finance side can see what each line is before it is approved.

Invoicing, purchase orders and the accounts email

A company can be invoiced rather than charged to a card. Send the billing entity, a PO number where your finance team uses them, and the accounts email with the enquiry, and the quote comes back addressed correctly the first time. The deposit and the balance follow the same terms as any other booking, and both are on the quote in writing, which is usually what the person approving the spend wants to see before the date is held.

Dietary labelling for a mixed team

A workplace guest list is the one a host knows least about: the new hire, the contractor, the partner who came along. Every item on the table carries a written card with its plain name first and its dietary markers second — vegetarian, vegan and gluten-aware items marked, and any common allergen named — using the same markers across the whole surface, so nobody has to ask a colleague what is in something. A serious allergy on the team is a conversation with us before the date. Halal and kosher preparation are things OH! cannot claim today, and we say so before a quote goes out.

The booking window for a December office date

Book a December office date two to four weeks out at the least, and earlier for a Friday. The workplace party has one quiet advantage over the family one: it can move to a weekday, and weekday afternoons and evenings in December stay open long after the Saturdays have gone. The date is held by a 30% deposit and the signed quote, the balance is due 3 days before, and moving more than 14 days out returns the deposit. A team count moves until the last week, so collect the replies early and send the final number 7 days before; it can rise after that, and it stops going down.

What happens on the day

We arrive ahead of the team, build the table in the room in 45 to 90 minutes, and the display is composed before the first person steps away from a desk. Dairy and cured meat stay out for about two hours at room temperature. An office in December runs warm, so the two-hour window is the one to plan against, with the second wave kept in the office fridge until it is wanted. At the end the serving pieces leave with us, either the same evening or the next morning by arrangement with your facilities contact, and the leftovers are boxed and left with you. Whether a person can also stay on the floor through the party is answered for your date, the way our reception catering page describes.

The paperwork a building or a rented room asks for

Managed buildings and rented rooms ask suppliers for documentation more often than a private home does, and the question belongs in your first message. A certificate of insurance is the document they ask for most, and OH! cannot supply one today, having no liability policy in its own name.

How an office orders a December table

Six answers turn an enquiry into a quote your finance side can approve, and an office manager can gather all six in an afternoon. Send them together and the quote comes back addressed correctly the first time.

• The date, the room, and the hours the room is yours for
• The head count you have today, with the final number due 7 days before
• Whether the table is the afternoon graze or the evening meal, which is the one decision that moves the price
• The billing entity, a purchase order number where your finance team uses them, and the accounts email
• Building access: the loading door, the service lift and whether it has to be booked, the security desk, and the name that goes on the list
• Who signs, since a signed quote and a 30% deposit are together what hold the date

Where this page hands over

The calendar for the whole month, at home and at work, is on our Christmas party catering page. Where the team wants the December version of the grazing format in full — winter produce, evergreen and citrus styling, hold times — our holiday grazing table page carries it. The published figures and the terms behind them are on our pricing page, the sequence from enquiry to empty platters is on our how it works page, and the parts of Ottawa we deliver into are on our locations page.