Super Bowl Catering

Kickoff is Sunday evening, when the office is closed and nobody is coming in. The workplace version is not a menu decision. It is a decision about which day you cater.

The Friday before is what most teams run, and it books far more easily. Put out the food everyone associates with the game, at noon, at work, and nobody gives up a weekend for it.

The other version is a watch party in the office on the night, with screens, seating and a spread that lasts hours. Different job, handled in our watch party catering guide.

The menu everyone pictures is a party menu, and a Friday lunch still has to work as lunch.

• Wings, boneless or with the sauce on the side. Bone-in reads as the party. The sauce choice matters more than the wing style, and our Buffalo Wild Wings catering guide walks it.
• Sliders that arrive built, not a station the room assembles.
• One hot tray that eats like a meal: chili, a baked pasta, a pan of brisket.
• Something green beside all of it, or you lose the afternoon.

One theme only this date supports: take the two cities playing and build from what they eat. Our post on tailgate foods by team city names a dish for every team.

Most dates on the office calendar spread their demand around. This one concentrates it into a weekend. Wing and pizza kitchens have long treated that week as the busiest of their year.

• Order weeks out, not days. Friday noon delivery slots go first.
• Ask what the kitchen is capping. A large order in one wing flavor loads a single fryer hard.
• Pick a second kitchen before you call the first.

Valentine’s Day lands anywhere from a few days to two weeks later, depending on where the game falls. Book both in one conversation. Our Valentine’s Day catering guide covers that one.

A wing and slider spread prices like anything else you cater at noon, $12 to $20 per person. The theme adds nothing to the bill.

An office watch party costs more, because it buys hours rather than a sitting. Budget $18 to $30 per person for a spread that stays presentable all evening.

The date most offices skip is the one after. A good part of the room arrives short on sleep, and Monday morning moves slowly. A recap lunch, ordered the week before alongside everything else, is cheap goodwill.

CaterAi starts from a Friday and a headcount, then puts up nearby kitchens with capacity left that week. Other dates worth booking this far ahead are in our catering guide to the holiday calendar.