Catering Client-Winning Print Pack: 3 Pieces That Make a New Kitchen Look Established
Clients hand you a wedding, a board lunch or a 300 guest gala based on how prepared you look before anyone tastes the food. This pack is the print that does that work: the card left at the tasting, the menu that carries your pricing into the decision meeting, and the banner that fills your calendar at the expo.
The catering print pack is three pieces that cover the whole booking path. Two sided blockout banners get you seen at expos and markets. Catering business cards survive the tasting and reach the planner's desk. Catering menus put your packages, minimums and per person pricing on paper so a client can sell you internally. Each is priced live and orders separately.
The picks
Business cards at 100, menus at 50, one banner
Start here. These are the three products the pack is built from, each priced live on its own page so you can set quantity, stock and turnaround against a real event date rather than a guess. Cards start at 100 on 73 stock options with a 3 business day turnaround. Menus start at 50 in seven sizes from 4.25 x 11 to 11 x 25.5 inches and take 5. The banner comes in 13 sizes from 2 x 3 ft to 4 x 10 ft and takes 4. Configure them one at a time in the same order.
Design and print help
One kitchen identity on the card, the menu and the banner
The pack only works if a planner holding your card and your menu sees the same company twice. Same logo, same two colors, same typeface, same way of writing your phone number. The menus print on 100# gloss text or 70# uncoated text, so pair a gloss menu with a 14pt or 16pt gloss card and an uncoated menu with an uncoated or soft touch card. The banner is 15oz blackout vinyl, so carry the logo and the phone format across instead of the paper.
How they work together
Expo, tasting, decision meeting
A booking moves from noticed to remembered to signed, and each piece handles one step. Print the one that matches your next event on the calendar and the rest can follow a week later.
Bridal expos, food festivals and farmers market booths. The banner reads from across the hall and works from both approach directions.
A planner leaves with something in hand. Weight, finish and a legible phone number decide whether it reaches their desk or the bin.
Packages, headcount minimums and per person pricing on paper, so the client can sell you to the committee when you are not in the room.
1. Catering business cards that survive the tasting
Catering runs on people who meet you once. The venue coordinator at a wedding, the office manager who liked the sandwich platters, the bride's mother who asked who did the food. None of them are going to search you later. They are going to look at whatever you handed them, days after the event, when the memory of the room has faded and the card is the only thing left.
Give that card a reason to be kept. Put the cuisine or specialty on it, not just the word "catering", because a planner filing three cards needs to know at a glance which one does the barbecue and which one does the plated dinners. Print heavier than a standard stock, up to 80pt, and add the high gloss UV coating so it handles fingerprints better. A phone number people can actually read from arm's length beats any logo you can design.
One card is a handshake. A box of them left with a venue, a photographer and two event planners is a referral network that works while you are cooking.
2. A catering menu that closes the room without you
The catering menu is not a food list. It is your proposal, printed once and reused for every conversation you have this season. Package tiers, per person pricing, headcount minimums, what staffing and rentals include, how far in advance you need the final count. Every question a client would email you twice about belongs on this page, answered in your words instead of guessed at in theirs.
Design it in the order people decide. Lead with the package you most want booked, not the cheapest one, because the first tier read becomes the anchor for everything below it. Keep pricing visible instead of hiding it behind a call, since the buyer comparing three caterers will drop the one who makes pricing feel like a negotiation. Leave a clean margin for handwritten notes, because a planner who writes on your menu has already started planning with you.
Print in two runs. A short run first while your pricing settles, then a larger run once a full season has proven the packages. That is the same logic behind the pieces in the catering local marketing toolkit, where the high-change items stay flexible and the evergreen ones scale up. For more ways to book events with paper, read these catering print marketing ideas.
3. Two sided blockout banners for the expo that fills your calendar
Bridal expos, corporate vendor fairs, food festivals and farmers markets are where a caterer can meet many clients in a weekend. In those rooms people approach your booth from both directions, and a single sided banner means half of them see the back of a blank sheet while they decide who to talk to.
Blockout material solves that with an opaque layer between the two printed faces, so neither side ghosts through the other. Both faces read at full strength, which matters when your booth hangs mid-aisle or your table sits against a walkway rather than a wall. Print the specialty and the service area large enough to read from across the hall, then let the smaller type do the detail work once someone is standing in front of you.
Hang it the morning the booth goes up and keep it rolled between shows. One banner can serve every show of the season, which is why launch packs in other trades, from the golf course launch pack to the security systems bundle, build around one too.
Configure two sided blockout banners from $108.75 for one banner
Specs and pricing
What a catering business card costs at 100 and up
The business card sets the stock and finish everything else answers to. It comes in 2 x 3.5, 2 x 2, 1.5 x 3.5 or 2.125 x 3.375 inches, on stocks from 14pt gloss and 16pt uncoated with soft touch up to 80pt ultra white uncoated, with an optional high gloss UV coating and 1/8 or 3/8 inch rounded corners. Check the quantity breaks here, then match the menu to whatever you choose.
| Quantity | Price Per Unit | Total |
|---|---|---|
| 100 | 17.6¢ | $17.57 |
| 200 | 11.5¢ | $23.07 |
| 300 | 9.15¢ | $27.46 |
| 400 | 7.96¢ | $31.86 |
| 500 | 7.25¢ | $36.26 |
| 600 | 6.77¢ | $40.64 |
| 700 | 6.43¢ | $45.04 |
| 800 | 6.18¢ | $49.43 |
Wally explains the pack
Three pieces, one brand, printed to book events
Wally thinks of a catering pack the way a caterer thinks of a service line. The banner is the room setup, it decides who walks over. The card is the plate handed across, small but the thing people remember holding. The menu is the check presenter, the piece that turns interest into a signed number. Skip one and the guest stalls somewhere between curious and booked.
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Catering print we handled start to finish
These catering menus came off our presses. A half fold or trifold 8.5 x 11 sheet gives each package tier its own panel, so compare how these layouts separate the tiers before you set yours.
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Where to go next
The restaurant collection holds every food service piece in one place, and the catering toolkit covers the print that keeps you in front of buyers between events. The four launch kits show how a real estate office, a gym, an insurance agent and a tax preparer build their first set.
By the numbers
One pack, printed to book the next event
Common Questions
Common questions about the catering print pack
What is in the catering client-winning print pack?
Three pieces that cover the way catering actually gets booked. Catering business cards for every tasting, expo and drop off. Catering menus that carry your packages and per person pricing into the client meeting. Two sided blockout banners for the booths and events where people meet you for the first time. Each one is priced live on its own product page and orders separately.
In what order should I print and use these?
Follow the money. The banner comes first if your next event is a bridal show or a festival, because visibility has to happen before anything else does. Cards come next since you will burn through them fastest and they cost the least per piece. Menus come last, after your packages and pricing are settled, so you are not reprinting a whole run over one number.
Do I really need printed menus when I can email a PDF?
A PDF gets forwarded, skimmed on a phone and forgotten. A printed menu can sit on a corporate office desk or a kitchen counter for weeks and get shown to the people who actually approve the budget. It also lets you control the reading order, so the package you want booked is the one they see first, not whatever the phone renders at the top.
What stock should catering business cards be printed on?
Go heavier than you think. Catering cards live in aprons, back pockets and event bins, and they get handled with wet or greasy hands. A thick stock with the high gloss UV coating handles that better. If you want the card to feel like the food does, the 16pt uncoated with soft touch reads premium the second someone picks it up.
Why a two sided blockout banner instead of a standard vinyl banner?
Blockout material carries an opaque layer between the two printed faces, so the artwork on the back does not ghost through the front. At an expo booth or a hanging position in the middle of a hall, both sides read clean and full strength. A single sided banner in the same spot means half your traffic walks past a blank sheet.
How much does the full pack cost to print?
Each piece is priced live on its product page and moves with quantity, size, stock and turnaround. Catering business cards start at $17.57 for 100, catering menus at $57.11 for 50 and two sided blockout banners at $108.75 for one 2 x 3 ft banner. Build a real quote by configuring the quantity you need on each product page, and check the price break one tier up before you order.
Can I add more pieces as the catering business grows?
Yes. The pack is a starting point, not a ceiling. You can add table tents, event flyers and branded labels once the calendar fills, and the whole restaurant collection is built to reorder from. Keep the same stock family and color palette as you expand so the tenth piece still looks like it came from the same company as the first.
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Catering menus start at 50 for $57.11
Print the pack from one place, in one checkout, and time it so the cards, menus and banner arrive before your next tasting.
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