Good meetings need good ideas. Great meetings usually have good food, too.
Planning an office event comes with enough decisions already. The food shouldn't be the complicated part.
Whether you're organizing an early-morning team meeting, a company lunch, an afternoon presentation, a client gathering, or a larger corporate event, the right catering can completely change the atmosphere. A table filled with warm breads, colourful salads, Mediterranean favourites, fresh breakfast dishes, and something sweet at the end feels very different from a stack of ordinary boxed lunches.
At Café Landwer, we believe office catering should feel like bringing the café to your table.
So, how do you plan catering that people will actually look forward to?
1. Start With the Type of Office Event
Before choosing the food, think about what the day actually looks like.
A 9 a.m. meeting needs something different from a noon team lunch. A presentation for clients may call for an impressive spread, while a casual office gathering might work better with dishes everyone can share.
For a morning meeting, think fresh breakfast favourites, warm breads, pastries, spreads, fruit, and coffee.
For office lunch catering, build a table around satisfying mains, colourful salads, fresh sides, dips, and shareable Mediterranean dishes.
For a larger gathering, variety becomes even more important.
The goal isn't simply to make sure everyone gets fed. It's to create a table people are excited to walk up to.
2. Make Breakfast Meetings Worth Arriving Early For
Early meetings have a reputation. We think breakfast can fix that.
Instead of putting out the same tray of pastries every time, an office breakfast can become a proper spread with Mediterranean-inspired breakfast dishes, fresh breads, dips and spreads, eggs, pastries, fruit, and morning favourites.
Add freshly brewed coffee and suddenly the 8:30 meeting doesn't seem quite as early.
Café Landwer's catering is particularly well suited to breakfast and brunch because the table can have a little bit of everything: something warm, something fresh, something savoury, and something sweet. It feels generous without feeling overly formal.
And most importantly, it actually feels like breakfast from a café.
3. Build a Lunch People Will Remember
Office lunch doesn't have to mean another sandwich beside a laptop.
A great corporate lunch catering spread should have variety. Think colourful Mediterranean salads alongside warm dishes, freshly baked breads, flavourful dips and spreads, vegetables, proteins, and sides that allow everyone to build a plate they genuinely want to eat.
This style of catering works especially well for offices because it encourages sharing. Put everything in the centre of the table and let people choose. A little salad. Some warm bread. A favourite main. Another spoonful of that dip everyone keeps asking about.
It turns an office lunch into something closer to sitting around a table together.
4. Don't Forget the Drinks
The food gets most of the attention when planning catering, but drinks can make the setup feel complete.
For a morning event, coffee is practically part of the agenda. A good coffee setup pairs naturally with breakfast, pastries, and brunch dishes and gives everyone something to enjoy while settling into the meeting.
Depending on the event, you can also think about refreshing beverages to accompany lunch. It's a small detail, but when the drinks make sense with the food, the entire catering experience feels more considered.
5. Variety Is Your Best Friend
One of the hardest parts of ordering catering for an office is choosing food for a group of people with very different preferences.
The easiest solution? Don't make everyone eat the same thing.
A varied spread gives guests the freedom to build their own plate. Combining salads, breads, dips, sides, mains, and other shareable dishes creates choices without making the order unnecessarily complicated.
This is where Mediterranean catering works particularly well. The table naturally becomes colourful and abundant, with different flavours and textures sitting alongside one another.
And visually? It looks pretty great when the meeting room doors open.
6. Know Your Group Size — But Don't Stress About a Minimum
Sometimes you're feeding six people. Sometimes it's sixty. Both deserve good food.
Café Landwer catering has no dollar-value minimum, which means we can accommodate different sizes of parties and office events.
That makes catering useful for more than just the annual company party. It can work for a small leadership meeting, a team breakfast, a department lunch, a client presentation, or a larger corporate gathering.
You shouldn't need a huge event to put something great on the table.
7. Order Ahead When You Can
Planning ahead gives you the greatest selection and makes coordinating a larger office event easier.
For Café Landwer catering, we recommend providing at least 24 hours' notice whenever possible.
But office plans aren't always predictable. A client confirms a meeting tomorrow. Someone suddenly decides the team needs lunch. An event gets moved forward.
If your event is less than 24 hours away, don't be afraid to reach out. Last-minute catering may still be possible, although some menu items may not be available on shorter notice. We'll do our best to help you put something together.
8. Order Enough Food Without Ordering the Entire Menu
This is where office catering can get tricky. You don't want people looking for the last piece of food halfway through lunch—but you also don't necessarily need enough leftovers to feed the office again tomorrow.
Consider how many guests are attending, the time of day, how long the event lasts, and whether catering is meant to be a full meal or something lighter.
For a full lunch, plan for a balanced selection across mains and sides. For meetings between meals, a lighter assortment may make more sense.
And if you're unsure? Ask. Helping you figure out the right combination is much easier than guessing.
9. Presentation Matters
We eat with our eyes first—especially when twelve coworkers are standing around the catering table deciding what they're going for.
A beautiful catering spread immediately changes the room. Bright salads. Fresh herbs and vegetables. Warm breads. Colourful dips. Generous platters. Desserts waiting at the end.
Mediterranean food lends itself naturally to this kind of presentation. The goal is for the table to look inviting before anyone has taken their first bite.
Because corporate catering can still have personality.
10. Make Catering the Easiest Part of Your Event
The best office catering doesn't create another project for the person organizing it. It should be simple: choose your dishes, tell us how many people are coming, set the time, and we'll help with the food.
At Café Landwer, our catering menu is designed for everything from office breakfasts and corporate lunches to meetings, celebrations, presentations, and larger gatherings. With Mediterranean-inspired dishes, breakfast and brunch favourites, fresh salads, breads, dips, mains, sides, desserts, and drinks, you can create a spread that feels less like office catering and more like someone brought Café Landwer to the office.
Bring Café Landwer to Your Next Office Event
Some meetings are forgotten five minutes after they end. The lunch doesn't have to be.
Whether you're planning breakfast for the team, lunch for an important client meeting, or food for the entire office, Café Landwer catering brings the flavours and experience of our cafés directly to your table.
Small group? We can do that. Big office? Absolutely. Planning ahead? Perfect. Need something sooner? Reach out and we'll see what we can make happen.
Good food brings people to the table. And that's a pretty good place to start.