Our story
Two decades of hospitality, one accountable kitchen.
Carthage Kitchen was founded by Aimen Shili — a hospitality professional with more than 20 years of international experience across hotels, restaurants, catering, and food-service operations.
The founder
Aimen Shili
Carthage Kitchen was founded by Aimen Shili, a hospitality professional with more than 20 years of international experience in hospitality, tourism, food service, catering, and operations management.
Aimen began his career in Tunisia, where he studied Hospitality & Tourism Management. His education focused on the complete guest experience — hotel operations, food service, event coordination, transportation logistics, customer service, and destination management — building a broad understanding of how successful hospitality operations are run.
The journey
Tunisia to Los Angeles
Over the next seven years, Aimen worked throughout Europe — including Greece, Italy, and Germany — gaining hands-on experience in hotels, restaurants, catering operations, guest services, entertainment programs, and hospitality management. These roles brought exposure to diverse service standards, international cuisines, operational systems, and customer expectations across multiple sectors.
Since relocating to California, Aimen has continued building his hospitality career through restaurant and food-service management. After several years of managing operations — and seeing clear room for improvement within the industry — he founded Carthage Kitchen with a simple vision: reliable food solutions, stronger partnerships, and a higher level of service built on accountability, professionalism, and long-term relationships.
Today, Carthage Kitchen serves businesses, government agencies, hospitality partners, healthcare organizations, and community programs — through catering services, contract meal programs, hotel food solutions, and managed food-service operations.
Our mission
Quality, dependability, partnership
Deliver quality meals, dependable service, and customized solutions — while building lasting partnerships that create value for everyone involved.
Great food is important, but trust, reliability, and service are what create long-term success.
“The most precise catering operation I have worked with in fifteen years of producing premieres. They run a kitchen like a film set.”
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