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All-Hands & Town Hall catering in Los Angeles.

All-hands and town-hall catering in Los Angeles — feed the whole company at once, halal, priced per head.

$20
Per guest, from
1–3 weeks typical
Typical lead time
On request
Custom spreads
All-Hands & Town Hall Catering
ALL-HANDS
50+Events catered
20+Years in hospitality
40Catering services & programs
22Menus, one kitchen

The occasion

All-Hands catering in Los Angeles & Orange County

What it takes to cater all-hands well — the logistics, the timing, and how we make it work.

When the whole company is in one room, the food has to scale without feeling mass-produced. We cater all-hands and town halls as shareable spreads or individually boxed meals — mixed cuisines, every diet covered, delivered and set for a fixed start time so nothing runs late.

An all-hands is a throughput problem before it is a food problem. Three hundred people do not queue politely for one buffet line inside a twenty-minute break, and the usual failure is not running out of food but running out of time — the back of the line eating cold while the meeting restarts without them. The fix is arithmetic. We size the number of service points to the headcount and the length of the break rather than to the size of the room, duplicate the line so it can be attacked from both ends, and split the menu across stations so people self-distribute instead of all funnelling to the popular dish. Where the window is genuinely tight, individually boxed meals beat any buffet: no queue at all, everyone fed in the time it takes to hand them out.

Scale is also where mass-produced starts to show, so the menu is built to defeat that. Rather than one dish multiplied three hundred times, a spread runs several cuisines in parallel — a taco or shawarma bar, a BBQ tray, a Mediterranean mezze table, Indian or Persian mains — which reads as abundance rather than volume and gives a company-wide room something everyone chose. Everything is halal · zabiha-sourced, which at this headcount is the difference between one table and a separate arrangement for part of your staff. Vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free are planned against your dietary count in advance and plated to match the main line, and every dish is labeled with contents and allergens. Multi-floor or hybrid sites are catered as one order with per-site delivery, invoiced per head and splittable by department or cost center.

Why Carthage

Why Carthage for all-hands

What you get with us for all-hands specifically — not a generic catering pitch.

  • Sized to the break, not the room

    Service points counted against headcount and window length, lines duplicated and attacked from both ends, menu split across stations so people self-distribute.

  • Boxed when the window is tight

    Below a certain break length no buffet works. Individually boxed meals remove the queue entirely and feed everyone in the time it takes to hand them out.

  • Several cuisines, not one dish times 300

    A taco or shawarma bar beside BBQ, mezze and Persian mains reads as abundance rather than volume, and gives a whole-company room real choice.

  • One order across floors or sites

    Multi-floor and hybrid gatherings catered as a single order with per-site delivery, invoiced per head and splittable by department or cost center.

All-Hands catering runs about $20$62 per guest for food. Multiplied out, that is what a spread costs at the counts people usually ask about.

Estimated all-hands catering cost by guest count — food only
GuestsEstimated food costPer guest
25$500 – $1,550$20 – $62
50$1,000 – $3,100$20 – $62
100$2,000 – $6,200$20 – $62
150$3,000 – $9,300$20 – $62

Food only. Staffing, rentals, delivery, setup and breakdown are separate lines, and a mandatory service charge and California sales tax apply on top — so the invoice for a staffed event runs meaningfully above the food figure. Smaller counts sit at the top of the band: setup and delivery cost the same at 25 guests as at 100. Every menu halal · zabiha-sourced.

Questions

Before you ask

How quickly can you feed 300 people?
That depends on how many service points we set, which is why we size them against the headcount and the length of your break rather than the size of the room. We duplicate lines so they can be attacked from both ends and split the menu across stations so people self-distribute instead of funnelling to one dish.
When should we choose boxed meals over a buffet?
When the break is genuinely tight. Below a certain window no buffet configuration works, and individually boxed meals remove the queue entirely — everyone is fed in the time it takes to hand them out.
Our company is across several floors or sites. Can that be one order?
Yes. Multi-floor and hybrid all-hands are catered as a single order with per-site delivery, invoiced per head and splittable by department or cost center.
How do you handle dietary requirements at that headcount?
By planning against your dietary count in advance rather than reacting on the day. Everything is halal · zabiha-sourced, so there is one table rather than a separate arrangement for part of your staff, and vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free are plated to match the main line with every dish labeled.

Dietary

Dietary needs?

Every all-hands menu is labeled per dish and built around the guest list — here's how we handle the requests we hear most.

Working out a budget first? See what catering costs in Los Angeles across every service style.

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