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Breakfast & Brunch catering in Los Angeles.

Breakfast catering in Los Angeles — pastries, hot egg trays, shakshuka, pancakes and coffee service for morning meetings and brunch. All halal.

$14
Per guest, from
3–7 days typical
Typical lead time
On request
Custom spreads
Breakfast & Brunch Catering
BREAKFAST
50+Events catered
20+Years in hospitality
40Catering services & programs
22Menus, one kitchen

The occasion

Breakfast catering in Los Angeles & Orange County

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

Breakfast catering lives or dies on two things heavier meals don't: the hour, and the heat. A 7am management meeting, a production crew call before dawn, a weekend brunch that has to feel relaxed rather than rushed — the food has to arrive early, arrive hot, and be set and ready before the first person walks in. We run early windows as routine across Los Angeles and Orange County, with hot dishes that arrive hot rather than held since 4am, and a setup that's done before your guests are awake enough to notice it happening.

A morning spread also has to wake a room up without slowing it down. Pastries and fruit for the people who graze, hot egg trays and shakshuka and pancakes for the ones who sit, and coffee service that's treated as part of the order rather than an afterthought poured into a sad carafe — proper urns, real options, oat milk as standard. Whether it's a working breakfast where people eat at their desks or a brunch that's meant to linger, we build the spread to match how the morning is actually supposed to move.

Breakfast is also the easiest meal to make a standing habit, and one of the best. A recurring weekly breakfast gets program pricing and a rotating menu so Monday never tastes like last Monday, and every morning menu carries the same dietary tracks as the rest of our catering — vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free, and halal · zabiha-sourced — labeled per dish so the one person who can't have gluten isn't left with a fruit cup and an apology.

Getting breakfast into an office is a different problem from cooking it. Where a building has a loading dock, a freight elevator or a security desk, we plan the load-in around it rather than discovering it at 6am, and the run is built backwards from your start time instead of forwards from our kitchen — breakfast is the one service where arriving ten minutes late is the same as not arriving. Hot items are loaded last and travel in insulated carriers; pastries, labneh, za'atar manakish, fruit and cold mezze go out first and are laid out while the hot food is still on the road. Coffee comes with what coffee actually needs — cups, lids, milk, sugar, and enough for a second round, which is the thing most breakfast orders under-count. Forty-eight hours' notice is usually enough, and a standing morning service runs as its own programme on one monthly invoice.

Why Carthage

Why Carthage for breakfast

What you get with us for breakfast specifically — not a generic catering pitch.

  • Early windows, run as routine

    Pre-dawn delivery for crew calls and 7am meetings is standard, not a special request — hot service arrives hot, set and ready before your guests walk in.

  • Coffee treated as part of the order

    Proper urns, real options, and oat milk as standard — the coffee program is built into the spread, not an afterthought poured into a carafe at the back of the room.

  • Built for the kind of morning it is

    A working breakfast people eat at their desks and a brunch that's meant to linger are different builds — we match the spread and the service to how the morning is supposed to move.

  • Standing breakfasts on a rotation

    A recurring weekly breakfast gets program pricing and a menu that rotates, so Monday never tastes like last Monday — with dietary tracks labeled per dish every time.

  • Loaded in the order it has to arrive

    Hot items go in last in insulated carriers so eggs and shakshuka arrive hot, while cold and baked items go out first and are already laid out when they land.

  • A halal breakfast table that needs no apology

    Beef bacon and halal sausage do the work pork does on a conventional breakfast spread, zabiha-sourced throughout, so the whole room eats the same food.

Packages

What it includes, what it costs

Honest per-guest pricing — the figure you'd be quoted, not a teaser.

Boxed meal

Reserve

from $15/ guest · min 25

1 service quoted with it — staffing and setup are priced separately from the food. About $21 per guest all-in at 25 guests, and lower per guest as the count rises.

A breakfast & brunch board built for morning events — per-guest, chef-portioned, priced all-in.

  • 3 · Breakfast
  • 2 hours of service
  • Delivery & setup
Drop-off

Premier

from $20/ guest · min 25

1 service quoted with it — staffing and setup are priced separately from the food. About $26 per guest all-in at 25 guests, and lower per guest as the count rises.

A breakfast & brunch board built for morning events — per-guest, chef-portioned, priced all-in.

  • 4 · Breakfast
  • 2 hours of service
  • Delivery & setup
Buffet

Sovereign

from $27/ guest · min 25

4 services quoted with it — staffing and setup are priced separately from the food. About $57 per guest all-in at 25 guests, and lower per guest as the count rises.

A breakfast & brunch board built for morning events — per-guest, chef-portioned, priced all-in.

  • 5 · Breakfast
  • 3 hours of service
  • Delivery & setup
  • On-site staffing
  • Setup & cleanup

À la carte

Create your own package

Prefer full control? Compose the spread dish by dish — the same kitchen and honest per-platter pricing, arranged exactly the way your event wants it.

  • Pick any dishes across every menu
  • Start from Breakfast & Brunch, mix in other cuisines
  • Per-platter prices shown as you build
  • Halal · zabiha-sourced by default
Build your own

Breakfast catering runs about $15$27 per guest for food. Multiplied out, that is what a spread costs at the counts people usually ask about.

Estimated breakfast catering cost by guest count — food only
GuestsEstimated food costPer guest
25$375 – $675$15 – $27
50$750 – $1,350$15 – $27
100$1,500 – $2,700$15 – $27
150$2,250 – $4,050$15 – $27

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 early can you deliver?
5:30am windows are routine for production crew calls; earlier is possible with notice. Hot service arrives hot, not held.
Do you bring coffee service?
Proper urns, real cups on request, and oat milk as standard — the coffee program is part of the order, not an afterthought.
Can we set a standing weekly breakfast?
Yes — standing orders get program pricing and a rotating menu so Monday never tastes like last Monday.
What is the difference between your breakfast and brunch spreads?
Breakfast is built for speed and an early window — hot eggs and shakshuka, pastries, labneh, fruit, coffee. Brunch runs longer and heavier, adding griddle items, mains, grain salads and a dessert or pastry course, and is usually staffed rather than dropped off. Brunch also assumes people graze for an hour or two instead of eating and leaving.
Can you do a weekend brunch at a private home?
Yes, and it is one of our more common weekend bookings. We survey the kitchen and service space in advance, bring what is missing, and can run it as a drop-off, a set-and-leave, or fully staffed with a chef on the griddle. Three to seven days notice is typical.
How do you decide how much to order per guest?
By how long the window is and whether breakfast is the meal or the warm-up. A thirty-minute pre-meeting breakfast needs fewer items and more of each; a two-hour brunch needs range. We size against the headcount and the window rather than a fixed items-per-person rule, and we would rather tell you to order less than sell you a table nobody finishes.

Dietary

Dietary needs?

Every breakfast 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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