Sonny’s BBQ Catering Guide: Pork Pulled or Sliced, Brisket Sliced or Chopped, and How to Order for the Office

Sonny’s BBQ smokes pork, brisket, chicken and turkey across the Southeast, and it sells that food to a group through its own online catering menu, read for this guide at all 88 of its catering storefronts. The packages are priced per person. The meats also come by the pound, the rack and the bird. Platters and desserts come in one size each.

The thing to plan around is the meat list. Sonny’s BBQ lists its smoked meats by the cut, and every cut is its own line on the catering form. Pulled pork and sliced pork are two choices. Sliced brisket and chopped brisket are two. Chicken comes pulled by the pound or whole by the bird, and ribs come three ways. A meat slot on a package is a cut, not an animal, so a Two Meats package can be pork twice, and a Three Meats package can be the brand’s own Pork 3 Ways.

The Meat List, Read by the Cut

Open a package on the brand’s online catering menu and the first question is the meat. At every one of the 88 storefronts, that list runs to twelve names where prime rib is sold and eleven where it is not, and the names are cuts. Pork appears as Pulled Pork and as Sliced Pork. Brisket appears as Sliced Brisket and as Chopped Brisket. Chicken appears as BBQ Chicken and as Pulled Chicken. Ribs appear three times: Sweet & Smokey, Dry Rubbed and Baby Back. Turkey and jalapeno cheddar sausage appear once each.

Count it by animal and the list is six meats. Count it by line and it is 11 cuts before prime rib, 5 of them pork. That is the brand telling you what it is known for. The restaurant menu sells a plate called Pork 3 Ways and describes it as the meat that made the brand famous: pulled pork, sliced pork and Sweet & Smokey ribs. The same menu describes its pork plate as “either pulled and piled or sliced and stacked,” and its brisket as “sliced (lean) or chopped (marbled).” Those are the brand’s own words for why the cuts are separate lines, and they are the words to order by.

Read the table as a rule. When the form asks for a meat, it is asking for a cut, and the cut carries the texture, the fat and the way the meat sits on a plate or a bun. Sliced pork stacks on a sandwich bun. Pulled pork piles on a plate and takes sauce. Lean brisket slices for a plate; marbled chopped brisket goes on a bun or a baked potato. The brand’s portion calculator treats them the same way: pulled pork and sliced pork each get a row, chicken and turkey are listed at a lighter per-guest amount than pork and brisket, and ribs are counted by the bone, four to six a guest. This guide quotes no weight from it. Our BBQ catering menus page covers how barbecue is sold by the pound against per person, and the arithmetic under both.

Six Meats at the Package Price, and the Ones That Add a Charge

The meat list splits in two, and the split is the same at all 88 storefronts. Six cuts come at the package price: pulled pork, sliced pork, BBQ chicken, pulled chicken, sliced turkey and jalapeno cheddar sausage. The rest add a per-person charge on top of the package: both brisket cuts, all three rib lines, and prime rib where a storefront sells it. The added amount differs from storefront to storefront, so read it on the form; this guide carries no figure.

Both pork cuts sit in the first tier. A Two Meats package in pulled pork and sliced pork is the brand’s famous meat two ways at the base price, which is a good default for a team lunch. Brisket and ribs are the upgrade meats, and the form prices them as such on every package. Our Jim ‘N Nick’s catering guide covers another smokehouse whose combos carry brisket as the one added-charge meat; Sonny’s BBQ widens that to brisket, ribs and prime rib and keeps every pork and chicken cut inside the price.

The Packages: One, Two or Three Meats Per Person

The brand sells three packages, One Meat, Two Meats and Three Meats, and the online menu describes every one the same way: “Each package is priced per person. Minimum of 10 people required.” The form takes a headcount from 10 to 250 on one line, then asks its questions in order: the meats, three sides, bread, drinks, paper products, ice and cups, add-ons, and two sauces.

The brand’s package line reads “3 sides, and garlic bread or cornbread. Includes paper plates & utensils, lemonade & our signature iced tea and your favorite BBQ Sauce.” The form gives you more room than that sentence. Sides come three from a list of up to eight: BBQ beans, homemade coleslaw, mac & cheese, green beans, baked sweet potato, potato salad, garden salad and, at some storefronts, broccoli. Bread comes up to two from four: garlic bread, corn bread, sandwich bun and slider bun. Drinks come up to three from sweet tea, unsweet tea and lemonade. Paper products and ice and cups are switched on by default, and bottled water and soda cans sit in an add-on list at most storefronts.

The bread choice follows the cut. A package in sliced pork wants the sandwich bun or the slider bun as one of its two breads, because that is how the brand’s calculator describes sliced pork, “great paired with buns or cornbread.” A package in pulled pork and ribs takes garlic bread and corn bread and eats from the plate. Pick the cuts first, then pick the two breads that suit them.

A La Carte: By the Pound, the Rack and the Bird

The a la carte list sells the same cuts loose, eleven lines at nearly every storefront, and here the measure follows the cut too. Pulled pork, sliced pork, sliced brisket, chopped brisket, sliced turkey, pulled chicken and jalapeno cheddar sausage come by the pound. The two St. Louis rib lines, Sweet & Smokey and House Dry-Rubbed, come by the pound as well. Baby back ribs come by the rack, full or half. BBQ chicken comes as a whole bird, listed as mixed pieces. The by-the-pound lines take two sauces from the same six as the packages.

The a la carte list is how you add a cut without changing the package. A Two Meats order in pulled pork and BBQ chicken for a room that also wants brisket adds sliced brisket by the pound; a room that wants ribs on one table adds a rack. The brand’s own note on the list is the planning fact to keep: “Plates, napkins, and cutlery are not included with a la carte meats. To receive these, please order a catering package.” The package brings the paper goods; the pound does not.

Sides by the Pan: Small, Medium and Large

Sides sell by the pan in three sizes, and the brand prints a serves label on each. BBQ beans, coleslaw, mac & cheese and potato salad carry the three sizes at every storefront; green beans at nearly every one; broccoli where it is sold. Garlic bread and corn bread come by three pieces.

A package already carries three sides per person, so the pans are for a fourth side, for a by-the-pound order that has none, or for the one dish a team asks for more of. The brand’s labels do that sizing; pan arithmetic in general, where each size carries a stated headcount, is covered in our Capriotti’s spotlight.

Platters That Serve Twenty, Box Lunches and Desserts

The appetizers come as platters, seven at most storefronts, and every one is listed as serving 20 people: chicken tenders, BBQ wings, smoked wings, BBQ meatballs, burnt ends, smoked buffalo chicken dip, and a pimento cheese and hotlink platter. The three desserts carry the same count: banana pudding, peach cobbler, and a platter of chocolate chip cookies and brownies. One number on every platter line makes the dessert and appetizer order simple arithmetic. Our Applebee’s catering guide covers a brand that sizes its whole catering menu to one serves line; at Sonny’s BBQ the one number covers the platters and desserts, and the packages run per person.

Box lunches come two ways. The hot box holds a pulled pork, pulled chicken or smoked turkey sandwich, with BBQ beans, mac & cheese, green beans or potato chips, a sauce and a cookie. The cold box holds a smoked turkey sandwich, a chicken salad sandwich or a garden salad, with homemade coleslaw or potato chips, a sauce and a cookie. Napkins and silverware are an opt-in line on the box form. For a room that splits between a shared table and desk lunches, our guide to boxed lunch, buffet and family style covers how to decide, and the directory’s boxed meals menu page lists local catering partners for the boxed side.

Sauces: Two on Every Line

Every package and every a la carte meat asks for two sauces from six: Original, Sweet, Sizzlin’ Sweet, Smokin, Mustard and Mild. The chicken tender platter takes a dipping sauce from a longer list that rotates seasonal flavors through the year. The brand also sells its sauces by the bottle and its dry rub by the bottle on the catering menu, and it publishes a sauce pairing guide that matches each sauce to a meat.

The pairings follow the cuts. For a Two Meats order in pulled pork and sliced brisket, the brand’s own guide points to Sweet for the pork and Smokin’ for the brisket, which is two sauces, which is what the form asks for. Order the pairings the brand prints and the two slots fill themselves.

Pickup, Delivery or Set Up and Serve

The brand’s catering page describes two ways to get catered. Online ordering, for pickup or delivery, is the one the brand recommends for events from ten to fifty people. Set Up and Serve, which the page describes as delivering, setting up and serving “from the tables to the carving station,” is the one it recommends for fifty and up, by request form or a call to the restaurant. The online menu lists each food category twice, once for pickup and once for delivery, with the same food on both.

Four planning facts, three from the storefronts and one from the brand’s FAQ. Pickup carries no order minimum at any of the 88. Delivery carries an order minimum that varies by storefront, and some storefronts state a delivery fee in their notice. The online menu asks for at least 48 hours at nearly every storefront, and the catering page asks for 72, so plan to the longer one and call the restaurant for anything sooner. The brand’s FAQ asks for 24 hours’ notice to adjust or cancel.

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Two Office Orders Built by the Cut

A team lunch for 12. Order a Two Meats package for 12 in pulled pork and sliced pork, the brand’s famous meat both ways at the package price. Take BBQ beans, coleslaw and mac & cheese as the three sides, corn bread and sandwich buns as the two breads, sweet tea, and Sweet and Mustard as the two sauces. Pick it up; the package brings the plates.

An all-hands for 40. Order a Three Meats package for 40 in sliced brisket, pulled pork and BBQ chicken, three animals in three cuts, with brisket as the one added-charge meat. Add a full rack of baby back ribs a la carte for the rib end of the table and a Large pan of mac & cheese for the dish people come back for. Add two dessert platters, two times twenty. Choose delivery, and check the storefront’s delivery minimum and notice when you set the location.

Before either order, ask the room about allergies and diets. Our guide to ordering catering for mixed dietary needs covers how to collect that from a team. The brand publishes its allergens list as a PDF; speak to the restaurant directly about any serious allergy.

How to Order Sonny’s BBQ Catering for the Office

1. Count the room. Ten to fifty, the brand points you to the online menu. Fifty and up, it points you to the request form for Set Up and Serve.
2. Set the storefront. The online menu shows its prices, its delivery minimum and its notice once it knows the location.
3. Pick the package by the number of cuts you want on the table. One, Two or Three Meats, and enter the headcount.
4. Pick the cuts, not just the animals. Pulled or sliced pork, sliced or chopped brisket, BBQ or pulled chicken. Count each cut as one meat slot.
5. Choose the breads to match the cuts. Buns for sliced pork, garlic bread and corn bread for the plate.
6. Add by the pound, the rack or the bird for any cut the package does not hold, and a pan for the side people want more of.
7. Choose pickup or delivery, at least 48 hours ahead online, 72 by the brand’s catering page, and keep paper products switched on.

Our office manager’s guide to ordering catering covers what to have ready on the day, from the pickup run to the table setup.

Where Sonny’s BBQ Fits

The storefronts read for this guide sit in Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama, South Carolina and North Carolina, with the largest share in Florida and the second in Georgia. Georgia offices can compare the brand with the local catering partners on our Atlanta catering page, the Atlanta BBQ catering page and the Atlanta corporate event catering guide.

A delivered package suits an all-hands, a company picnic or a team celebration, and the directory’s buffet menu page covers how a shared line runs. The platters suit a happy hour or any standing event on the appetizer menu page. Our BBQ corporate catering guide covers the cuisine across every brand, the Dickey’s catering guide covers a smokehouse built around the one-two-three meat ladder, and the Southern catering page lists partners for the sides.

For the headcount lines the brand draws, our catering for 20 people page and catering for 50 people page cover what changes at each size. The full catering directory lists the rest.

A Better Option for Recurring Office Meals

Sonny’s BBQ makes a one-off barbecue lunch easy: pick the package, pick the cuts, and the plates and tea come with it. An office that eats together several times a week, and wants the food to change, needs a different setup.

Zerocater runs office catering as a program. You describe the room once, including who skips pork and who needs a lighter plate, and CaterAi builds a menu from local catering partners that deliver to your address, then rotates it so the food changes week to week. Our office lunch ideas show what a rotation can look like, how it works walks through the steps, and our corporate catering page covers the service in full.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Does Sonny’s BBQ do catering?

Yes. Sonny’s BBQ runs its own online catering menu with per-person packages, box lunches, meats by the pound, sides by the pan, platters and desserts, and it takes larger set-up-and-serve events by request through its catering page.

What is the difference between pulled pork and sliced pork at Sonny’s?

The brand’s menu describes the same slow-smoked pork two ways: pulled and piled, or sliced and stacked. On the catering form each one is its own line, so you choose the cut when you choose the meat, and a two-meat package can be pork both ways.

Which meats come at the Sonny’s package price?

On the brand’s online catering menu, pulled pork, sliced pork, BBQ chicken, pulled chicken, sliced turkey and jalapeno cheddar sausage come at the package price. Sliced brisket, chopped brisket and the three rib lines add a per-person charge, and prime rib appears as an added-charge meat at many storefronts.

How many people does a Sonny’s catering package serve?

Each package is priced per person, with ten people as the smallest order the online menu takes and 250 as the largest on one line. You enter the headcount, then choose one, two or three meats, three sides, bread, drinks and two sauces.

What comes with a Sonny’s catering package?

The brand lists three sides, garlic bread or cornbread, paper plates and utensils, lemonade, its signature iced tea and BBQ sauce with every package. The online form adds the choices: up to two breads, up to three drinks, two sauces, and paper products and ice and cups switched on by default.

How are Sonny’s a la carte meats sold?

By the pound for pulled pork, sliced pork, sliced brisket, chopped brisket, sliced turkey, pulled chicken, jalapeno cheddar sausage and the two St. Louis rib lines; baby back ribs come by the full or half rack; BBQ chicken comes as a whole bird. The menu notes that plates, napkins and cutlery come with a package, not with a la carte meats.

How many people does a Sonny’s appetizer platter serve?

Every appetizer platter and every dessert on the online catering menu is listed as serving 20 people: chicken tenders, BBQ wings, smoked wings, BBQ meatballs, burnt ends, smoked buffalo chicken dip, the pimento cheese and hotlink platter, banana pudding, peach cobbler and the cookie and brownie platter.

How far ahead do you order Sonny’s catering?

The online catering menu asks for at least 48 hours at nearly every storefront, and the brand’s catering page asks for 72 hours. For a sooner order, the menu says to contact the restaurant directly. The brand’s FAQ asks for 24 hours to adjust or cancel.

Does Sonny’s deliver catering, and is there a minimum?

Yes, through the online catering menu. Pickup carries no order minimum at any storefront read for this guide. Delivery carries an order minimum that varies by storefront, so check it where you order.

Every meat line, package rule, pan size and serves count in this guide was read from the brand’s online catering menu at 88 of its catering storefronts, its catering page, its restaurant menu and its portion calculator on 24 October 2026. Menus change, so check your own storefront before you order. Nothing here describes an order that was placed. This guide is not allergy, dietary or medical advice.

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