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Office Lunch catering in Los Angeles.

Everyday office lunch catering across Los Angeles — halal · zabiha-sourced, priced per guest, delivered on time.

$15
Per guest, from
48 hrs typical
Typical lead time
On request
Custom spreads
Office Lunch Catering
OFFICE LUNCH
50+Events catered
20+Years in hospitality
40Catering services & programs
22Menus, one kitchen

The occasion

Office Lunch catering in Los Angeles & Orange County

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

The office lunch is the order we run most — which is why we built it to be effortless. Pick a cuisine or mix several, we portion it to your headcount, label every dish for dietary needs, and deliver set up and ready to eat. Drop-off or full-service, one guest or two hundred, priced per person so the cost scales cleanly with the room.

The thing that kills a recurring office lunch is not quality, it is repetition. A team that eats the same three orders on a loop stops looking forward to lunch and starts eating at their desks instead. Because our kitchen cooks across every cuisine we offer rather than specialising in one, we can rotate an office through Mediterranean mezze, halal taco and shawarma bars, BBQ trays, Indian and Persian mains, Korean, Thai and Italian without ever leaving the same kitchen or the same invoice. You can also mix two or three cuisines on a single table for a large or opinionated room, which is usually the right answer above about forty people — it removes the argument entirely and gives everyone something they actually chose.

Everything else is logistics, and logistics is where most office catering quietly fails. We portion to your confirmed headcount rather than to a tray size, so you are not paying for food nobody eats or splitting the last portion four ways. Every dish arrives labeled with contents and allergens, and vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free options are plated to match the main line instead of arriving as an obvious afterthought in a smaller container. The whole order is halal · zabiha-sourced, so a mixed office shares one table and nobody has to ask what is in anything. Drop-off is set up and ready to eat; full-service adds staff to run the line and clear it. Invoicing is itemized per head and can be split by department or cost center, with net-30 terms for established accounts. If it becomes a standing weekly order, that is our office meal program — same food, one monthly invoice, headcount that flexes week to week.

Why Carthage

Why Carthage for office lunch

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

  • Portioned to your headcount

    We portion to the confirmed count rather than to a tray size, so you are not paying for uneaten food or splitting the last portion four ways.

  • A rotation that does not repeat

    Every cuisine in the kitchen is available on the same invoice — Mediterranean, taco and shawarma bars, BBQ, Indian, Persian, Korean, Thai, Italian. Mix two or three on one table for a big room.

  • Halal by default, labeled per dish

    Zabiha-sourced throughout so a mixed office shares one table. Vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free are plated to match the main line, not sent as an afterthought.

  • Invoicing finance will accept

    Itemized per head, splittable by department or cost center, allergen sheets per dish, net-30 for established accounts.

Office Lunch catering runs about $15$48 per guest for food. Multiplied out, that is what a spread costs at the counts people usually ask about.

Estimated office lunch catering cost by guest count — food only
GuestsEstimated food costPer guest
25$375 – $1,200$15 – $48
50$750 – $2,400$15 – $48
100$1,500 – $4,800$15 – $48
150$2,250 – $7,200$15 – $48

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 much notice do you need for an office lunch?
Forty-eight hours is typical and comfortable. Same-day and next-day are often possible depending on the kitchen's load and the size of the order — ask, because the answer is frequently yes.
Can we put more than one cuisine on the same table?
Yes, and above roughly forty people we usually recommend it. Because one kitchen cooks every cuisine we offer, mixing a mezze spread with a taco bar or BBQ trays is a single order on a single invoice, not a coordination exercise.
What does it cost per person?
Office lunch starts around $15 per guest and moves with the cuisine, the format and the service level. Drop-off is the floor; a staffed line with rentals sits higher. You are quoted per head, so the cost scales cleanly with the room.
We want this every week. Is that a different arrangement?
Yes — that is our office meal program. Same food, but with a rotating menu calendar, one consolidated monthly invoice, headcount that flexes week to week, and no annual lock-in.

Dietary

Dietary needs?

Every office lunch 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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