Catering Business Cards

What Are Catering Business Cards

Caterers, private chefs, drop-off and event caterers and banquet kitchens order these cards to hand out where the food is served. They print full color on one or both sides in 4 sizes, from the classic 2" x 3.5" card to a 2" x 2" square, on any of 73 stocks, with rounded corners, finish, and turnaround all set in the live configurator.

A catering business card is the card you leave after a tasting, clip to a proposal, or hand across a buffet table at the event itself. It carries your company name, your phone, your booking link, and a reason to call you for the next party. Choose 4/0, 4/1 or 4/4 ink for the front and back, then the stock, the size and the corners, and the price changes with each pick. If you run a dining room too, the Restaurant Business Cards share the same specs, and a Food Truck Business Cards order fits a mobile kitchen on the road.

Catering Business Card Design Ideas

A catering card is handed over at a tasting, tucked under a plate or left with a venue coordinator, so it has about three seconds to say what you cook and how big a party you can handle. These six layouts all do that in a different way, and every one of them can be built from the design templates further down this page.

• Food photo front. One dish, shot close, filling the whole front with no type over it except your name in a corner. The back carries everything else. This is the layout that works when the food is the selling point.
• Menu QR back. Clean front with the logo, and a QR code on the back that opens your current menu or booking form. Nothing on the card goes stale when the seasonal menu changes.
• Tasting offer. A single line offering a complimentary tasting for confirmed dates, printed on the back with room to write in a date and initial it. The card becomes the voucher.
• Event packages list. Three tiers set as three short lines, corporate lunch, wedding, private party, with a guest count beside each. It answers the first question a client asks before they call.
• Chef portrait. Your face on the front and your name under it. For a solo chef or a small team, this is the card people remember, because they met you.
• Minimal type on metallic pearl. Name, phone, one line of service, nothing else, on a stock that shifts in the light. Restrained, and it suits high end and wedding work where a photo would look busy.

What to Put on a Catering Card

Run the layout against this list before you approve a proof. If a line is missing, the client has to call to find out, and most will not.

• The service types you actually cover: weddings, corporate, drop off, full service, bar.
• A capacity line: your minimum guest count and the largest event you staff. This filters out the calls you cannot take.
• Your service area, by city or by radius, so nobody books you three hours away.
• One phone number that a person answers, plus a booking link or email.
• A QR code to the current menu, priced or unpriced, on the back.
• A closing call to action: book a tasting, request a quote, check a date.

Leave the social handles off unless the feed is full of your own food photography. A dormant account on a card costs you more than it gives.

How Much Do Catering Business Cards Cost

A caterer's card count follows the event calendar. You can order 100 for $17.57, or any of 39 quantity tiers up to 100,000, and each step lowers the price of every card. Stock, finish, rounded corners and turnaround change the total, and the configurator shows the exact figure before you order.

Your first 100 cost $17.57, about 18 cents a card. At 900 cards the total is $53.83, 8,000 run $179.25, and 25,000 run $492.07, under 2 cents a card, with the top tier at 100,000 for a season of weddings, galas and corporate lunches. Most caterers land on a set somewhere in the middle for a first print. Drag the slider below to your count and read the total and the per-card cost side by side.

What Size Should a Catering Business Card Be

You get 4 set sizes, with the 2" x 3.5" as the default finished card, plus a 2" x 2" square, a slim 1.5" x 3.5" and a 2.125" x 3.375" credit-card size. A custom size goes up to 2" x 4".

A venue coordinator files the classic 2" x 3.5" with every other vendor card, which is why it is the default. Clipped to a menu packet, the 2" x 2" square looks like a tag and stands apart. The slim 1.5" x 3.5" suits a clean logo, and the 2.125" x 3.375" matches a credit card, so it stays in a client's wallet. For any other shape, set a custom size up to 2" x 4" in the configurator and the price follows it. The specs below list all 4 sizes, both finishes and the full stock list in the same groups the live configurator uses.

What Paper Stocks And Finishes Can You Choose

You can print catering business cards on any of 73 paper stocks: 14pt and 16pt gloss cover, uncoated, kraft, linen, metallic pearl, synthetic plastic, rigid PVC, indoor magnet, and ultra-thick painted-center cards up to 80pt. Finish them Standard or High Gloss UV, and print 4/0 on the front only, 4/1 with a black back, or 4/4 in full color on both sides. For a heavier pearl card, see our metallic pearl business cards on ultra-thick stock.

Match the stock to the food you serve. The default 14pt Gloss Cover is clean and affordable for everyday handouts. Kraft suits farm-to-table and backyard events, and 14pt or 18pt linen gives a texture a client feels as you hand it over. The metallic pearl stocks catch light like a plated dessert under the lights. Then the ultra-thick cards, which climb from 24pt right up to a genuinely chunky 80pt, some with a colored center core that shows a stripe at the edge. For finishes you pick Standard or a High Gloss UV coat that makes a photo of your spread snap, and you set ink coverage to 4/0, 4/1, or 4/4 depending on whether you print the back.

To design the card yourself, pick a layout from our library of 10,000+ free design templates and swap in your dish photo, logo and booking link in the online editor.

If your designer already made the card, download a press-ready blank at the size you ordered. Each template marks the trim, the bleed and the safe margin, so keep your phone number and QR code inside the safe line, drop your art in, and upload.

Food brands live or die on how the card feels, and a catering card gets handled with busy hands. Four choices out of the 73 stocks do most of the work here. Gloss keeps a dish photo saturated, and the optional High-Gloss UV Coating takes it further while giving you a surface that wipes clean when a thumb comes off a chafing dish. Kraft and uncoated go the other way, warm and matte, right for farm to table, barbecue and rustic wedding work, and they are the two that take a pen if you write a date or a quote on the back. Linen adds a woven texture that reads formal at a hotel or corporate tasting. Metallic pearl shifts in the light and suits a minimal, type only card. If the cards ride in a van, a prep kitchen or a service apron all season, order them on synthetic plastic or rigid PVC instead: both shrug off water and grease that would pulp a paper card. Rounded corners are worth adding on any of them, because a catering card spends its life in a pocket.

Can You Round The Corners Or Personalize Each Card

Yes. Round the corners to a 1/8" or 3/8" radius, or keep them square. With variable data printing, one run can give each card its own name, code or QR link while the design stays the same.

A tight 1/8" radius or a softer 3/8" radius gives the card a finished shape and keeps it from snagging a proposal folder. For a staff of coordinators, variable data puts each person's name, a booking code or a QR link to their menu on their own cards in the same order. Switch on the Variable Data option and upload a spreadsheet with one row per card, and one run covers your whole staff or a batch of unique referral codes.

How Do Catering Cards Compare To The Rest Of The Range

Catering business cards are the natural pick for a kitchen that travels to the event, but they share a family. If you also run a dining room, a truck, or a bakery counter, compare the starting prices first. The chart below lines up catering cards against their closest food-service siblings, the Restaurant Business Cards, Food Truck Business Cards and Bakery Business Cards, so you can compare the starting price on each before you choose.

See How A Finished Catering Card Lands

The gallery below shows cards our customers printed in-house across different sizes, stocks and finishes. Check how a food photo holds its color on gloss against kraft before you choose. Tap any print to see it larger.

How Fast Can You Get Catering Business Cards

Catering business cards print on a 3 business day standard turnaround, and when a date sneaks up you can move that to 2-day, Next-Day or even Same-Day production. Each step buys back time for a set percentage on top of the base price, so you only pay for speed when you actually need it. Same Day orders need to be approved by noon EST to ship that day. Compare every turnaround tier below and see exactly what the rush adds before you pick.

See The Rest Of Our Cards

The full print product range holds the rest of our cards. If a slimmer cut, a square shape or a heavier stock suits your service better, each option below shows its own starting price and links to its product page.

Print the rest of the set while you are here: catering menus to leave behind after a tasting, restaurant menus if you run a room as well as events, and the full range at business card printing.

Print Your Catering Business Cards Today

At 4OVER4.COM, quality comes first, and it's backed by a satisfaction guarantee and 25+ years of printing since 1999. Pick the size and the stock, add your menu QR code and booking link, and upload or start from a template. Need them before a tasting or a weekend event? Our Same-Day production keeps you covered. A box of 100 catering business cards starts at $17.57.