Does CaterCow Support Multiple Office Locations?

Short answer: yes. CaterCow runs catering for companies with more than one office, and the model is actually better suited to it than a single-site vendor is — because each of your locations orders from restaurants that are already vetted in that city, rather than from one national menu stretched across the country.

We deliver in NYC, the SF Bay Area, LA County, the Boston/Cambridge area, DC, Chicago, Austin, and many other major metro areas.

Here's what a multi-site program actually looks like in practice.

Each site gets its own local restaurants

This is the part that surprises people coming from a single-vendor setup. There's no central kitchen and no national menu. Your Phoenix office orders from Phoenix restaurants; your Austin office orders from Austin restaurants. Both lists have been vetted the same way — we run test deliveries and track each restaurant's punctuality and service before it stays on the platform.

The practical upside: your two offices don't have to eat the same thing on the same day to keep the program simple. A site with a hard-charging sales floor can run boxed lunches people grab between calls, while a site with a real lunchroom can run buffets. Same program, same budget, different formats.

The same holds true within a city. Perhaps you have a warehouse team that needs something easy like grab-and-go breakfast burrito catering while your finance team wants something healthy like salad and bowl catering.

One cadence, set per site

Recurring programs run on whatever cadence you choose — one-off, monthly, every other week, or every week — and that's set per location. If your headquarters does Fridays and your second site does Wednesdays, that's just two schedules.

Account managers can take over the menu and dietary work along with the communication and logistics with restaurants, which is the part that otherwise eats an office manager's week.

Budgets and participation, per location

Each site can run its own numbers:

• Budget per person. Set the per-head target you're planning against.
• Company spend limits. Pay up to a set amount per meal and have employees cover the rest — useful when two sites have different costs of living or different headcounts.
• No minimums. There are no contracts, obligations, or subscription fees, and no minimum spend. A site with 40 people in on a given Friday pays for 40 lunches, not for a threshold.

That last point matters most for companies where one site is much smaller than the other. Models that require a restaurant to staff your building need a participation floor to be viable; delivered catering doesn't, so your smaller office isn't penalized for being smaller.

How employees order across sites

If you want people choosing their own meals, group ordering handles it per location: your team picks from the day's restaurant, meals arrive labeled with employee names and dietary tags, you can see who hasn't ordered yet, send reminders to stragglers, trim expensive items off the menu, and let CaterCow auto-submit the order on your schedule.

For sites with a lot of dietary needs, the labeling is the whole ballgame — the two gluten-free people at each location get a box with their name on it rather than a tray they have to interrogate.

Billing across locations

Pay by card or invoice, billed directly to your finance department, with tax-exempt forms handled if your organization qualifies.

Multi-Location Catering FAQs

Can we run different menus at different offices? Yes, and you usually should. Each location draws from its own local restaurant list, so the menus are different by default.

Do both offices have to be in cities you serve? No, while we are active in 30+ metros, we happily open up a new market to ensure your local teams have plenty of options, tailored to their needs.

Can each site run a different cadence? Yes. Cadence is set per location — one-off, monthly, every other week, or every week.

Is there a minimum number of employees per site? No. There are no minimums, so a small second office can run the same program as your headquarters.

Can employees at each site pick their own meals? Yes, through group ordering, with per-person labeling including dietary tags.

Getting a multi-site program started

The fastest path is to tell us the cities, the headcount per site, the cadence you want, and your per-person budget — then let an account manager build each location's menu rotation from restaurants already proven in that market.

Start with the managed program page for your city, or set up group ordering if you'd rather have each team choose for itself.