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Company Picnic catering in Los Angeles.

Company picnic catering in Los Angeles — BBQ, grills and crowd spreads for the whole company, halal by default, priced per head from $20 a guest.

$20
Per guest, from
1–3 weeks typical
Typical lead time
On request
Custom spreads
Company Picnic Catering
COMPANY PICNICS
50+Events catered
20+Years in hospitality
40Catering services & programs
22Menus, one kitchen

The occasion

Company Picnics catering in Los Angeles & Orange County

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

Company picnic catering is catering at its most relaxed — and its most crowd-pleasing. We bring charcoal BBQ, grill stations and abundant shareable spreads to parks, lots and campuses across Los Angeles, and we cook on site so the food reaches the table hot.

Outdoor catering in Los Angeles is a food-safety problem before it is a menu problem, and it is the part most picnic quotes ignore. Ninety degrees on an exposed lot changes what can be on a table and for how long: mayonnaise-bound salads, cream desserts and anything sitting in a shallow tray in direct sun come off the menu, replaced by oil-and-acid dressed grain and pulse salads, grilled vegetables, and fruit that holds. Hot food comes off the grill in waves rather than being cooked once and held for two hours, cold food sits on ice with shade over it rather than on a trestle in the open, and we bring the shade, the ice and the coolers because a park does not have them. Cooking to order in waves is also simply better food, which is the happy part of the constraint.

The other half is the site. A park or a lot has no kitchen, no power you can rely on, no water and often no bins beyond what your permit provides — and the permit, the amplified-sound rules and whether open flame is allowed at all belong to the park and to you, not to us. We plan around your permit and the site's rules rather than assuming them, and bring what is missing: charcoal grills and stations, tables, coolers and ice, service ware, and waste removal so the lot is left clean. Menus are built for the crowd a picnic actually is — families, kids, a wide age range, people eating standing up — so BBQ and grill stations, abundant shareable platters, and food a nine-year-old will actually eat. Everything is halal · zabiha-sourced, which for a whole-company family event means one table for everybody. Priced per guest, staffed and equipped as far as you want us to go.

Why Carthage

Why Carthage for company picnics

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

  • Built for heat

    No mayonnaise-bound salads or cream desserts sitting in the sun. Oil-and-acid dressings, cold food on ice under shade, hot food grilled in waves rather than held for hours.

  • We bring what a park does not have

    Charcoal grills and stations, tables, coolers and ice, service ware, shade and waste removal — a lot has no kitchen, power, water or bins.

  • Your permit and the park's rules

    We plan around the permit, the sound rules and whether open flame is allowed, confirmed for your site rather than assumed. Those belong to the park and to you.

  • Food for families, not just adults

    A wide age range eating standing up — BBQ and grills, abundant shared platters, and food a nine-year-old will actually eat. Halal · zabiha-sourced so one table serves everyone.

Company Picnics 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 company picnics 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 do you keep food safe in the heat?
By changing the menu, not just adding ice. Mayonnaise-bound salads and cream desserts come off in favour of oil-and-acid dressed grain and pulse salads, grilled vegetables and fruit that holds; cold food sits on ice under shade rather than on a trestle in the sun; and hot food comes off the grill in waves rather than being cooked once and held for two hours. Cooking in waves is better food anyway.
Can you grill on site, and do we need a permit?
We bring charcoal grills and run stations on site. Whether open flame is allowed, plus the permit itself and any amplified-sound rules, belongs to the park and to you rather than to us — tell us the site and we will plan around whatever your permit says instead of assuming.
Is there food kids will actually eat?
Yes, and we plan for it explicitly, because a company picnic is a family event with a wide age range eating standing up. BBQ and grill stations, abundant shareable platters and straightforward options alongside the more adventurous ones.
A park has no tables, ice or bins. Do you bring those?
Yes — grills and stations, tables, coolers and ice, shade, service ware and waste removal so the lot is left clean. A park has no kitchen, no reliable power, no water and no bins beyond what your permit provides, so we plan for all of it.
How much does company picnic catering cost in Los Angeles?
Company picnic catering starts at $20 per guest and most picnics land between $20 and $45 a head. A Reserve build runs about $20–$32 per guest, Premier about $28–$45, and Sovereign about $39–$62 — the difference is the number of grill stations, how much of the menu is cooked live in front of guests, and how much service stays on site. Headcount matters too: the same setup costs less per head at 150 people than at 40, because the crew and equipment are the same either way. For how those bands compare across every service style, see our guide to catering rates in Los Angeles.
What is included in a company picnic catering package?
Every package includes the food, the cooking, delivery and setup, serving equipment, and the disposables guests actually eat off — plates, cutlery, napkins and serving utensils. Chafing dishes or grills come with the hot items, and the team labels every dish so guests can see what is in it before they take it. On-site grilling adds the crew who cook it. What is not automatically included: tables, seating, ice, shade and bins — parks rarely provide them, so we quote them as rentals when the site needs them rather than assuming.
What group sizes do you cater, and is there a minimum?
Company picnics run well from about 25 guests up to several hundred. Below roughly 25 the per-head figure climbs, because one crew and one grill cost the same whether they are feeding 20 people or 60 — at that size a drop-off spread is usually better value than a staffed picnic. Above 150 the per-head cost tends to fall, and we add grill stations rather than lengthening one queue, so the line keeps moving.
Which parts of Los Angeles do you cater company picnics in?
We cater company picnics across Los Angeles County and into Orange County — including Downtown LA, Santa Monica, Beverly Hills, Pasadena, Burbank, Glendale, the South Bay and the San Fernando Valley. Park and beach sites are routine for us; tell us the location and we will tell you what it does and does not provide, because that changes the rental line more than the menu does.
What is on a company picnic menu?
A picnic menu is built around things that hold well outdoors and travel down a line without falling apart. Typical builds pull from charcoal beef BBQ, BBQ chicken, chicken wings, beef and chicken sliders, burgers, and taco stations (al pastor, birria, barbacoa, chicken tinga), with baked mac and cheese, candied yams and salads alongside, and brownies, cheesecake bites or churros to finish. Aguas frescas — jamaica and tamarindo — travel better than soda in the heat. Every meat item is halal and zabiha-sourced by default, at no premium and without a separate "halal option" line, so nobody at the picnic has to ask.

Dietary

Dietary needs?

Every company picnics 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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