Cater2.me works with high quality, local food vendors — from farmers market purveyors and food trucks to chef-owned restaurants and boutique caterers — to bring delicious meals to offices, events, and more.
Since its founding in 2010, Cater2.me has transformed the culture of thousands of companies through millions of meals served.
Starting this June, Cater2.me is helping to provide one meal* to Feeding America for every meal served to corporate clients nationwide.
Get to know Cater2.me co-founder, Zach Yungst, and learn about his take on the industry, what it means to innovate, and his favorite spots to eat in LA.
As part of Cater2.me's nationwide Vendor Assistance & Community Support Program, clients like Cision can sponsor a set of meals that are delivered to local food banks and food recovery programs; with all the work performed by a local food vendor.
In a joint statement, co-founders of Cater2.me, Yungst and Lorton, and Awotona, the CEO of Calendly, said, "We are glad to have found a productive and helpful partnership during these tough times that could do some good in the Greater Atlanta community. We wish everyone a return to health and prosperity shortly."
Lorton says that companies offering food as a benefit to employees have the potential to score on two levels. On the one hand, staff spends less time away from work during the lunch hour, which can be good for the company's bottom line. On the other, it's a chance to build community and culture, and give employees a meal that they can look forward to, and even a taste of a restaurant they've been wanting to try.
This dream of creating a community around local food in the workplace became a reality when we took a risk and left our steady jobs (Alex moved across the country to California!). In the fall of 2010, we started up operations with one client, working out of our apartment.
The company has already started working with some exciting new technology and startup clients, including Socrata in Seattle, AppNexus in Denver and Spotify in LA, as well as delicious, local food vendors, such as Uneeda Burger and Oma Bap in Seattle, The Corner Beet and DiFranco's in Denver and fundamental LA and The Anchor in LA.
Cater2.me’s goal is to deliver a more varied, tasty catering experience by tapping into the varied culinary world you find in many cities.
Everybody loves a free lunch, especially when their boss pays for it. Still, sometimes you might wish your employer would switch it up and order something besides twelve pepperoni pizzas.
Cater2.me captures and saves preferences like employee dietary restrictions, so once companies have a good experience with the service, they're likely to stay.
Lunch is serious business for Cater2.me, a corporate catering startup that has joined the fray of companies jostling to feed Chicago's office workers.
The service “benefits clients because they get a variety of local high-quality artisanal food they normally wouldn't be exposed to.”
Cater2.me was founded in late 2010 and has already attracted some positive press attention. Now, its client list includes some startups worth bragging about, such as Yelp, Eventbrite, Tagged, Square, Dropbox, Twilio, Causes, Posterous, and Heyzap.
No journalist likes to be told he's naïve. But that's what Zach Yungst, co-founder of Cater2.me, told me after I wrote a Ping column suggesting that companies that pay for their employee's meals, as many high-tech firms do, retard the economic life of a neighborhood.
