It may not feel like it, but you’re not the first person scrambling to place a last-minute catering order. Maybe you forgot to order a catered breakfast for a high-stakes morning meeting. Or maybe a restaurant flaked on you and now it’s your responsibility to somehow feed a crowd at a work event with just a few hours’ notice. The pressure is on, and it’s enough to make even the most seasoned food ordering pros feel panicked.
Fortunately, one slip-up doesn’t have to mean your team goes hungry. With ezCater, you can order last-minute or next-day catering with just a few hours’ notice — no matter who dropped the ball.
How ezCater can help with short-notice catering
Sure, ordering food for work a few days (or weeks) in advance is always a great idea. But what if you can’t? Any workplace food orderer knows that sometimes, you’re forced to source catering options at the last minute. When that happens, ezCater helps you find an assortment of restaurants that can deliver under pressure — even with four hours or less of lead time. So, yes, same-day lunch (or breakfast, or dinner) is totally doable.
Here are some of the ways ezCater accommodates last-minute orders.
Finding a restaurant with next-day catering options
Most of the restaurants on ezCater are available for short-notice ordering, even if your event is happening in just a few hours. Here’s how to find them: Go to the ezCater website, plug in your delivery address, and add the date and time you need your order. From there, you’ll be able to browse restaurants available in your area.
Need catering for a smaller event, like a seminar or lunch-and-learn? Maybe this event has been planned for a while and attendees have registered — but someone on your team dropped the ball on the catering order, and now it’s up to you to source delicious meals on the fly. That is the perfect opportunity to take advantage of ezCater’s short-notice catering. Since you have a head count and a start time, finding a reliable restaurant that can deliver is simple.
Next-day catering also is useful for solving supplier problems, too. Maybe you had spoken to a local bakery on the phone and agreed on an exciting spread of snacks and beverages for an afternoon team-building session. All was well — until they called the day of to let you know they can’t fulfill your order. That puts you in a real bind: what’s a team hangout without food? Luckily, with ezCater, you can browse nearby restaurants accepting last-minute orders.
Whatever the situation, ezCater lets you be the office hero.
ezCater sweats the small stuff for you
Placing your own short-notice catering order is great if you want to take full control. But if you don’t have the time to scroll through local options, the ezCater customer support team is here to help. Whether you suddenly need to feed 150+ people at a conference or you’re jumping into the unknown trying to plan a small surprise celebration your manager sprung up on you last-minute, our agents will go above and beyond to find you memorable meals.
How? It’s simple. Connect with a human 24/7 and share some details about your order — like the date and time of your event, your address and budget, the type of food you’re looking for, special dietary requests, and how many people you’re feeding. That’s it. You can sit back as ezCater’s experts search for restaurants that come through on delivery (and great flavor). They’ll place the order, wait for confirmation, and keep a close eye on its progress behind the scenes — from the kitchen all the way to the drop-off location.
Calling restaurants, coordinating pick-ups with drivers, and solving problems along the way is a lot of work. Why do it alone? When you leave the logistics to ezCater, you can have more time to take care of all your other responsibilities.
Low stress, even at the last minute
No matter why you need same- or next-day catering, there are so many reasons to order with ezCater when you’re in a tight spot — like the wide selection of reliable restaurants and personalized customer assistance. Now, you can go from panicked to reassured quickly.
