When it becomes a priority to encourage potential clients to sign with your marketing agency or other business, consider having the meetings catered. Preliminary meetings that include office catering offer several key benefits that will help you win over the clients—instead of leaving them with literal and figurative bad tastes in their mouths. Here are a few of the benefits of business catering.

3 Reasons to Schedule Office Catering for a New Business Meeting

1. Shows Professionalism

Request office catering services to symbolize your unwavering dedication to professionalism. A beautifully catered business breakfast, lunch, or dinner makes it clear to potential clients that you care about your company’s reputation and want to impress. Offering only water and coffee or a few donuts typically has the opposite effect because it indicates a lack of respect. New clients, partners, and affiliates want to know you value their time, especially if the meeting occurs when people normally eat.

2. Helps Everyone Stay Focused

Hungry stomachs can distract you, your team members, and the clients you hope to sign. They can also make clients willing to hurry the process along, so they can eat, resulting in unfinished or botched deals. Providing a variety of healthy, satiating foods eliminates hunger-related distractions to help everyone focus. To further impress the clients, research their meal preferences beforehand to include vegan and vegetarian options.

3. Complements Your Meeting’s “Theme”

Entice potential clients by using your office catering menu to match the meeting’s theme or style. For example, offer a street taco menu to help sign food trucks to your event planning company or maritime creations to a seafood restaurant your local advertising agency wants as a client. Complementary menus showcase your attention to detail and willingness to take extra steps that turn potential clients into loyal customers. 

Choose from a comprehensive variety of buffet-style office catering menus—including vegan and vegetarian options—from Corporate Caterers. Known for their signature sweet potato and plantain chips, this Dublin, OH-based catering company offers all-inclusive pricing that includes whole meals, drinks, desserts, and utensils, as well as setup and cleanup services. Call (614) 336-3222 today to discuss your business catering needs, or review their menu options online.