Buffalo Wild Wings Catering Guide: Prices, Wing Bundles, Sauces & How to Order

Buffalo Wild Wings caters the way it runs a dining room, around wings and the sauce on them. For catering, that comes down to two formats: trays of traditional bone-in or breaded boneless wings sold by the count, and Bundles that add a party size of potato wedges plus carrots and celery. Wings are handspun in up to four of the 23 sauces and dry rubs the catering menu carries, and on a plain tray the carrots, celery and every dip are $1.99 add-ons rather than part of the price. The part that decides whether an order lands is the sauce choice, because the sauces are the menu. Use all four slots at the same heat and half the room is either bored or on fire; take one mild, one signature, one dry rub and one hot and everyone finds a wing they want. Order it as a shareable spread for a launch, a game-day afternoon or a Friday win and Buffalo Wild Wings is one of the easiest crowd-pleasers you can put on a table. Order it as a tidy sit-down lunch and you have a saucy, hands-on pile of finger food that wants napkins, plates and a table nobody minds getting messy.

Two friends, Jim Disbrow and Scott Lowery, opened the first Buffalo Wild Wings in 1982 near the Ohio State campus in Columbus, after Disbrow went looking for the bone-in, sauced wings he had grown up on in Buffalo and could not find in Ohio. They called it Buffalo Wild Wings and Weck, a nod to the beef-on-weck sandwich served on a caraway-and-salt kummelweck roll back east, and customers shortened the unwieldy name to bw-3 within months. A third partner, Mark Lutz, joined six months in. The chain grew into a sports-bar fixture, is now part of the Inspire Brands family out of Sandy Springs, Georgia, and runs more than a thousand locations across all fifty states. That history matters for catering because the identity never drifted from the two things it opened on: wings, and a wall of sauces to put on them. This guide walks the wing trays and Bundles, what the sauces do for a group, the sides and wraps around the wings, how much to order per person, where the menu hits a wall for a mixed-diet office, how ordering and pickup work, and where Buffalo Wild Wings fits against the other ways to feed a team.

Buffalo Wild Wings catering formats, wing counts, sauces, sides, lead times and pickup or delivery availability vary by location and change over time. Order through buffalowildwings.com or a catering marketplace and confirm the current catering menu, quantities, timing, handoff options and the Allergen and Preparation Guide directly with the Buffalo Wild Wings nearest your office before you plan around them.

Buffalo Wild Wings Catering Prices (2026)

Catering prices move by market, and franchise operators set their own. Every figure below comes from the Buffalo Wild Wings catering menu on ezCater for the store at 1430 N Meacham Rd in Schaumburg, just northwest of Chicago, checked in September 2026. A second store at 4140 Lemmon Ave in Dallas prices the identical item list 0 to 24 percent lower, and there is a table at the bottom that shows the spread. Ordering direct for pickup usually lands under delivery pricing, and a delivery fee sits on top of every total here.

The short version: buying more wings saves you almost nothing, but buying them inside a Bundle saves you a fifth. Going from a 75-wing tray to a 125-wing tray moves the price from $1.76 a wing to $1.72, a 2 percent volume curve. Subtract the menu price of the wedges, carrots, celery and dip that ride along with a 100-wing Bundle, though, and the wings inside it work out at $1.39 each, which is 19 percent under the tray. The Bundle is the discount. The wing count is not.

Wing Trays and Bundles

Buffalo Wild Wings does not sell a product called a wing platter. The catering menu names the plain trays by their wing count, and calls the wings-plus-sides format a Bundle. A tray is wings and sauce only. A Bundle adds a party size of potato wedges plus carrots and celery. The Per Wing column on the Bundle rows is the wings alone, after subtracting what the sides cost on the same menu.

Three things worth taking from that table. Boneless wings cost 7 to 8 percent less than bone-in at the same count, which is the opposite of what most people expect from a breaded product. There is no small wing order: 75 wings serving 12 is the floor, so a team of six either buys for twelve or orders wraps and dippers instead. And Buffalo Wild Wings uses exactly 6.25 wings a person on every catering item, since 75 serves 12, 100 serves 16 and 125 serves 20. That is the house rule behind every serving figure on this page.

What the Sauce Slots Actually Allow

The catering picker at both stores carries 23 flavors, not the 27 on the restaurant menu, and every wing item reads Select sauce or dry rub: Required, 1 to 4 options. Four per tray, not two. That is the single most useful thing on the ordering screen, because one 125-wing tray split four ways covers a whole office on its own.

The groups follow the order the catering picker prints, which runs broadly mild to hot; the exact ranking is Buffalo Wild Wings’ own. A separate checkbox called Sauce On Side sits under the flavor list, so keeping the sauce off the wings for the drive is a real option at checkout rather than a note you hope somebody reads.

Chicken, Wraps and Burgers

Everything here is priced at the Schaumburg store, with Dallas alongside. The Grilled Chicken Dippers are the only chicken on the catering menu that is not fried. The Cauliflower Wings are the only item ezCater tags as vegetarian at either store, though Buffalo Wild Wings’ own allergen guide notes that they share the fryer with the chicken.

The wraps line is the strangest pricing on the menu. The plain tray gives you eight wraps for $97.79. The Bundle gives you six for $121.29, so it costs $23.50 more for two fewer wraps. The gap is the pan of potato wedges, which sells for $54.29 on its own, so the Bundle is still the better buy if you wanted wedges anyway. It is a bad buy if you did not.

Sides, Desserts and Drinks

There are no fries on the Buffalo Wild Wings catering menu at either store. Party-size potato wedges are the only starch, and they are the line that moves most between markets.

Large Onion Rings at $1.40 a head is the cheapest line on the entire catering menu, and Large Mozzarella Sticks at $7.00 a head is the dearest side. The Party Sampler holds those two plus the fried pickles, which cost $139.97 bought separately, so the Sampler saves $25.78 at Chicago prices. One trap: on a plain wing tray the carrots, celery and every dip are $1.99 add-ons, and the modal offers five slots, so an order can quietly pick up $9.95 of extras. Only the Bundles carry those sides inside the price.

What a Real Order Costs

Five complete orders at the Schaumburg store, before tax, tip and the delivery fee. This store sets a $100 food and beverage minimum for delivery with a fee from $30, and no minimum at all for pickup.

The first row is a warning as much as a budget. At $96.98 it lands $3.02 short of the store’s $100 delivery minimum, so you either add a $4.59 tub of ranch or collect it yourself. Past that, the pattern is the one the wing table predicted: the Bundle route holds near $14 a head and drops to $13.92 at 32 people, while the tray route climbs to $15.27 once you buy the wedges and veggies separately. For a recurring lunch rather than a one-off celebration, CaterAi will build a menu to a headcount and a per-head budget across local restaurants instead.

How Far Prices Move Between Markets

Buffalo Wild Wings locations are a mix of company-run and franchised, and the pricing shows it. Dallas undercuts Chicago on almost every line, but not by a consistent amount, and three items match to the cent.

Wings move least, at 5 to 8 percent, and sides move most: the same pan of potato wedges costs a quarter less in Dallas. The dips and the carrots and celery are priced nationally and do not move at all. The practical reading is that the wing figures on this page should hold within a few percent wherever you are, while the side dishes are worth checking against your own store. The two stores also set different terms: Chicago wants four hours of notice and a $100 delivery minimum, Dallas wants twenty-four hours and $75. Neither charges anything to pick the order up yourself.

How Buffalo Wild Wings Catering Works

Buffalo Wild Wings sells catering as curated party packages built for a crowd, so you can put an order together in a couple of minutes without pricing out a stack of individual meals. Each restaurant caters against its own menu, so you pick the location nearest your office and order from what that store offers. If the packages do not fit, most locations let you build the order a la carte, choosing wing trays, sides and sauces piece by piece.

You can place a catering order on buffalowildwings.com, by calling the restaurant directly, or through a catering marketplace such as ezCater, DoorDash or CaterCow. The channel you use changes the checkout, not the food. One rule holds across all of them: this is drop-off catering. Nobody comes to staff a line, set out chafing dishes or serve. The boxes arrive, and someone from your office puts them on the table.

Plan around the notice window, and check it at your own store, because it swings hard. The Chicago-area store we priced for this guide asks for four hours of notice and takes changes up to four business hours before the event. The Dallas store asks for a full twenty-four hours on both counts. Either way, 125 wings in one flavor is a real load on a single kitchen, so give a big order more runway than the minimum and call the store to confirm it can hit your time.

The Wing Menu: Traditional, Boneless and the Bundles

The catering menu turns on two wing styles. Traditional wings are classic bone-in New York style, fried and then handspun in your sauce. Boneless wings are white-meat chicken, breaded, fried and tossed the same way. The menu names the trays by wing count rather than by a platter name, and both stores we priced sell 75 wings serving 12 and 125 wings serving 20. The 100-wing size exists only inside a Bundle, which adds the potato wedges plus carrots and celery, and the 50/50 Bundle splits its hundred wings between the two styles. On a plain tray the carrots, celery and each dip cost $1.99 apiece, so only a Bundle arrives with the sides already in the price.

The bone-in versus boneless call is not just texture. Bone-in wings are the real thing, meatier and messier, and they hold their crunch under sauce longer, which matters on a drive. Boneless wings eat cleaner and faster, go down easier at a desk, and stretch further per pound because there is no bone, but the breading soaks up sauce and softens sooner. For a stand-and-graze celebration, bone-in reads as the event. For a room that has to get back to work, boneless is the tidier call. Plenty of offices order one tray of each, or take the 50/50 Bundle, and let people choose.

Each tray carries up to four sauces or dry rubs, and that choice does more work than the wing style. A single flavor across 125 wings is the most common ordering mistake, because it turns a room of different palates into one vote. Use all four slots on every tray and order across trays so the full table spans mild to hot. The next section is the one to read before you check out.

The Sauces Are the Menu

Twenty-three sauces and dry rubs is the whole reason Buffalo Wild Wings is a catering pick rather than just a wing shop. That is the count in the catering picker at both stores we priced, 18 wet sauces and 5 dry seasonings, against 27 on the restaurant menu. Four of them are restaurant only: Black Garlic Glaze, Hot BBQ, Buffalo Ranch and Honey Garlic. The lineup runs from sweet and mild through the tangy middle to sauces built to hurt, plus dry seasonings that flavor without the wet coat. You choose up to four per tray, so even one tray can cover a wide range of eaters if you spread the choices instead of doubling up.

One spread can feed a whole office if you build the flavors in tiers. Anchor the low end with a sweet or mild sauce that almost everyone will eat, a honey barbecue or a mild buffalo. Put a crowd-favorite signature in the middle, the garlicky or medium-heat one your team will fight over. Add a dry rub, a lemon pepper or a smoky seasoning, for the people who want flavor without a sticky coat and for anyone eating over a keyboard. Then, if your group has heat-seekers, add one genuinely hot flavor and let it be the dare rather than the default. Four flavors is exactly what one tray holds, so a single 125-wing tray can give you a spread nobody can complain about.

Keep the sauce on the side when you can, or ask for lightly sauced. Wings tossed heavy and then boxed for a drive steam in their own sauce and arrive soft, and there is no way to re-crisp them at the office. Sauce on the side is the single change that most improves a Buffalo Wild Wings order that has to travel, and it lets the person who wants a wing dry-rubbed keep it that way. This is the same instinct behind ordering sauces and dressings separately in our party tray catering guide: the wetter it rides, the worse it lands.

Beyond Wings: Wraps, Dippers, Cauliflower and Sides

Wings are the headline, but the catering menu has enough around them to round out a table. Classic Chicken Wraps fold boneless wings, cheddar-jack cheese, lettuce, tomatoes and sauce into a flour tortilla and travel far better than open wings, which makes them a useful anchor for anyone who wants a self-contained item rather than a saucy pile. Chicken Dippers come 30 to a tray in Original, Spicy and Grilled, with the sauce on the side, and the Grilled version is the only chicken on the catering menu that is not fried. Cauliflower Wings are the closest thing to a plant-forward pick, breaded and tossed in the same sauces, though the caveat in the dietary section below applies to them.

The sides are built for sharing. Party-size potato wedges are the only starch on the catering menu, because there are no fries on it at either store we priced. Mozzarella sticks, onion rings and fried pickles round out the fried-appetizer bench and photograph like a spread, which is part of the point when the order is doubling as a team moment. The Party Sampler pulls those three together if you would rather not build the sides one by one, and a Caesar Salad, bacon mac and cheese, pretzel knots, burgers, chicken sandwiches, cookies and brownies fill out the rest of the list.

None of this changes what the meal is. It is fried, hand-held, shareable food that suits a standing celebration, a viewing party or an afternoon pick-me-up. If your team wants finger food that works the same social way without committing the whole order to wings, our guides to finger food catering for office events and happy hour appetizers for the office cover the wider field.

How Much to Order by Headcount

Buffalo Wild Wings uses the same number on every catering item: 75 wings serve 12, 100 serve 16 and 125 serve 20, which is 6.25 wings a head every time. Start from roughly six a person when wings are the meal, and about four when they are an appetizer or the sides are hearty. Boneless run smaller, so lean toward the high end of the range on those; bone-in are meatier, so the low end holds. The table below assumes you want people to eat and get back to work, not graze all afternoon.

For a big room across a long window, remember that fried food is a first-thirty-minutes item. Wings hold better than the potato wedges beside them, but neither improves sitting out. If you are feeding a crowd over hours rather than a single lunch rush, look at the staged, replenished formats in our boxed lunch roundup and treat the wings as the opener rather than the whole table.

Where Buffalo Wild Wings Hits a Wall in a Mixed Office

This is the section that decides whether Buffalo Wild Wings works for your team, and Buffalo Wild Wings is direct about the limits in its own Allergen and Preparation Guide.

Everything fried shares the same oil. Buffalo Wild Wings does not run separate fryers, and the bone-in wings, boneless wings, cauliflower wings and the fried sides all cook in shared oil and get tossed in shared bowls. The company states that it cannot guarantee any item is free of an allergen and that nothing is certified gluten-free, vegetarian or vegan. Read that as the ceiling on every accommodation below.

Boneless wings contain wheat. They are breaded, so they are not gluten-free and not a fallback for anyone avoiding wheat. The bone-in wings are unbreaded, which sounds like a gluten-free option, but they share the fryer with breaded items, so they carry cross-contact and no celiac-safe claim. A dry-rub bone-in wing is the lower-risk choice, not a safe one.

The vegetarian bench is thin, and the cauliflower wings do not fix it. Cauliflower wings look like the plant-based answer, but they are breaded and fried in the same oil as the chicken and tossed in the same bowls, so they are not a clean vegetarian item, let alone vegan. Past the carrots, celery and a side, a vegetarian at a Buffalo Wild Wings spread is left hunting, and there is no meatless entree that stands on its own.

Sauces carry their own allergens. Several sauces and the ranch and bleu cheese contain dairy, and ingredients vary by sauce, so anyone avoiding dairy cannot assume a given flavor is safe. Check the current allergen guide for the specific sauces you plan to order rather than the menu as a whole.

No halal or kosher certification. Buffalo Wild Wings makes no such claim in the United States, so a team that keeps either is ordering from elsewhere.

Stack those together and the picture is clear. Buffalo Wild Wings serves an omnivorous room that eats gluten and does not need certification, and it serves that room well. If your headcount includes people who eat vegetarian or vegan, anyone eating gluten-free, or anyone who keeps halal or kosher, plan a second order from somewhere else. Our guide to ordering catering for mixed dietary needs covers how to run that split without making anyone feel like an afterthought, and if the standing brief is a lighter table, our healthy office catering guide is the better starting point.

How to Order Buffalo Wild Wings for a Group

1. Start on the catering menu, not the regular one. Order catering on buffalowildwings.com, by calling the restaurant, or through ezCater, DoorDash or CaterCow. The standard ordering flow will sell you individual meals; the catering menu sells the wing trays and the Bundles.
2. Pick the location closest to your office. Menus, wing counts, sauces and handoff options are set per store, so the location you choose determines what you can order and how fresh it arrives.
3. Choose bone-in, boneless, or one of each. Bone-in reads as the event and holds up better on a drive; boneless eats cleaner at a desk. A 50/50 Bundle splits its hundred wings between the two and covers both preferences in one line item.
4. Spread your sauces, do not double up. Use all four sauce slots on every tray and order across trays so the table runs mild to hot, with a dry rub in the mix for the no-mess crowd.
5. Ask for sauce on the side when it has to travel. Lightly sauced or sauce on the side is the difference between crisp wings and steamed ones by the time the box reaches the conference room.
6. Add the sides and the dips per head. Potato wedges and the fried appetizers are separate line items, and on a plain wing tray so are the carrots, celery and every dip, at $1.99 each.
7. Give a big order real notice and confirm it. Notice runs from four hours to a full day depending on the store, and late changes are capped, so book early for anything at the 125-wing size and call the store to confirm the kitchen can produce it all for your time.

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Keeping Wings Good on the Drive Over

Fried food is the least forgiving thing you can cater, and wings add a second variable most orders do not have: how wet they ride. A closed box of hot, heavily sauced wings steams itself, and the breading on boneless wings goes soft fastest. Reviews that pan Buffalo Wild Wings takeout are usually describing exactly this, wings that were crisp at the counter and limp by the time they were eaten.

Four moves fix most of it. Order sauce on the side or lightly sauced so the wings are not sitting in liquid on the drive. Favor bone-in and dry rubs for anything with a long trip, because both hold their texture better than sauced boneless. Crack the box lids as soon as the food is out so steam escapes instead of settling back onto the breading. And put the potato wedges out first, since they fade faster than the wings and are worth eating while they are hot.

Pros and Cons for Office Catering

Who Buffalo Wild Wings Catering Is Best For

Buffalo Wild Wings vs. Other Catering Options

Buffalo Wild Wings and Raising Cane’s land on the same shortlist whenever the brief is a crowd-pleasing chicken lunch, and the split is menu shape. Cane’s does one item and one sauce with almost no decisions to make; Buffalo Wild Wings hands you twenty-three flavors and four slots per tray, and asks you to choose well. For a celebration where the variety is the fun, Buffalo Wild Wings wins. For a Friday where you want zero debate, Cane’s is simpler. If you are weighing chains more broadly, our Chick-fil-A, Panda Express and Subway alternatives guides lay out the rest of the field, and the Outback Steakhouse and Dickey’s Barbecue Pit guides cover the sit-down and smokehouse ends of it.

If it is the game-day flavor you want rather than the brand specifically, Zerocater’s barbecue catering directory and Southern catering directory list local kitchens that bring the same heat with a real vegetable side. Worth a look: Charred Wing Bar in Chicago, Firewater Sports Bar & Cafe near Austin, Baco’s Smokehouse BBQ in Glendale, Roaming Buffalo BBQ in Denver and Dipped N Smashed in Cliffside Park.

A Better Option for Recurring Office Meals

Buffalo Wild Wings earns its place on a celebration. Twenty-three sauces, two wing styles and a spread built to share make it one of the easiest ways to turn a launch or a game-day afternoon into something people remember. Bring it in for the win, and it lands.

The trouble starts when you try to make it the standing order. The wings that make it great on Friday are the same wings you cannot serve every Tuesday, and no amount of ordering around the menu produces a vegetarian entree, a gluten-free plate or a lighter option for the people who want one. It is also drop-off only, so someone on your team handles the food every time, and the messy, hands-on format that suits a party fights a normal workday.

Zerocater was built for the other half of that problem. Menus rotate across more than a thousand local restaurants, so the team is not eating the same thing twice a month, and dietary needs are labeled and planned for rather than worked around. Delivery and setup are handled, so nobody spends a lunch hour on a pickup run. For one-off events, CaterAi builds a menu from your headcount, budget and dietary requirements in a chat, and you edit it until it fits. When the event has a run of show, corporate event catering covers the staffing and logistics, and how it works walks the whole process.

Several of the guides on this site pair well with this one if Buffalo Wild Wings is one option among a few you are weighing: lunch and learn catering, board meeting catering, the office manager’s guide to ordering catering, boxed lunch versus buffet versus family style, and the industry guides for law firms, tech companies and financial services. For per-head budgeting in a specific market, our cost guides for Chicago, Dallas and New York City give a realistic range, and the Dallas and Atlanta listicles name local caterers worth calling.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Does Buffalo Wild Wings do catering?

Yes. Buffalo Wild Wings caters through Bundles and a la carte ordering, built around trays of traditional bone-in and boneless wings sold by the count. A 75-wing tray ran $124.79 to $131.79 at the two stores we priced in September 2026, and a 100-wing Bundle with potato wedges, carrots and celery ran $215.09 to $229.19. You can order on buffalowildwings.com, by calling the restaurant, or through a catering marketplace such as ezCater, DoorDash or CaterCow. Catering is drop-off, so no one comes to staff or set up the food.

What comes in a Buffalo Wild Wings wing platter?

Wings in your choice of up to four of the 23 sauces and dry rubs on the catering menu. The menu names the trays by count: 75 wings serving 12 and 125 wings serving 20, plus a 100-wing Bundle serving 16. Only the Bundles include the party-size potato wedges, carrots and celery. On a plain tray the carrots, celery and each dip are $1.99 add-ons, and the wedges and fried appetizers are separate line items.

How many wings should I order per person?

Buffalo Wild Wings uses 6.25 wings a head on every catering item: 75 wings serve 12, 100 serve 16 and 125 serve 20. Plan on roughly six a person when wings are the meal, and about four when they are an appetizer or the sides are hearty. Boneless wings run smaller, so lean toward the high end on those, while meatier bone-in wings hold at the low end. A 50/50 Bundle splits its hundred wings between the two styles and is the reliable way to cover a mixed room.

How do the sauces work for a group order?

Each tray carries up to four of the 23 sauces and dry rubs on the catering menu, so the smart move is to spread flavors rather than double up. Anchor with a mild or sweet sauce almost everyone eats, add a crowd-favorite signature, include a dry rub for the no-mess crowd, and add one genuinely hot flavor only if you have heat-seekers. Four flavors on a single tray covers most offices.

Is Buffalo Wild Wings catering good for vegetarians or gluten-free eaters?

Not really. Buffalo Wild Wings uses shared fryers and states that nothing is certified gluten-free, vegetarian or vegan. Boneless wings are breaded and contain wheat, bone-in wings share the fryer with breaded items, and the cauliflower wings are breaded and fried in the same oil, so they are not a clean vegetarian option. Plan a second order elsewhere for anyone with those needs.

Does Buffalo Wild Wings deliver catering, or is it pickup?

Both are possible. Delivery through ezCater carried a $30 and up delivery fee at both stores we priced, on a $100 food and beverage minimum in the Chicago area and a $75 minimum in Dallas, while pickup carried no minimum at all. Either way it is drop-off catering with no on-site staff, setup or service, so someone from your office puts the food out.

How far in advance do I need to order Buffalo Wild Wings catering?

It is set per store and the spread is wide. The Chicago-area store we priced asks for four hours of notice and takes changes up to four business hours out; the Dallas store asks for twenty-four hours on both counts. For large orders at the 125-wing size or for weekend events, give more notice than the minimum and call the restaurant to confirm the kitchen can produce it all for your time.

How do I keep Buffalo Wild Wings from arriving soggy?

Order sauce on the side or lightly sauced so the wings are not steaming in liquid on the drive, and favor bone-in wings and dry rubs for a long trip because they hold their texture better than heavily sauced boneless. Crack the box lids as soon as the food is out so steam escapes, and put the potato wedges out first since they fade fastest.

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