3 Reasons Houston's Galleria and Greenway Plaza Office Catering Clients Love Our Boxed Lunch Delivery and Sandwich Trays post from Julie Nelson at C3.

Did your boss once again tell you he needs lunch for tomorrow’s meeting as he headed out the door? Ordering meals isn’t what you were hired to do, but as your office’s point person, you’re determined to make the box lunches or sandwich trays a winner. However, the office doesn’t look forward to lunch meetings, in part because the food is usually bland and predictable. You might feel defeated before you get started on the order. You need office catering to help with box lunch delivery in Houston’s Galleria and Greenway Plaza districts.

Grocery store sandwiches don’t give anyone what they want, especially if you have to consider food allergies or dietary restrictions. Pizza, while tasty, can be unhealthy and messy, prompting complaints. However, ordering a whole buffet of food, complete with multiple main courses, side dishes, and dessert can be daunting, especially when you’re in charge of setting up the serving tables, finding serving utensils, and keeping everything warm before the meeting begins.

You probably wish there was a way to strike a balance between healthy options, variety, expense, and ease of service. What if you could get credit for providing everyone a quality lunch, but also avoid the hassle of arranging the details that make the difference between a great working lunch and a lackluster one?

Good news is here. There is a happy medium between box lunches and well-crafted sandwich trays, and we can help you provide healthy, affordable, stress-free lunches that accommodate the restrictive diets and the picky eaters in your office. With an expert catering concierge, you can be your office’s lunch hero without time-consuming or complicated ordering. Find out three top reasons our clients love ordering box lunches and sandwich trays for their office events with us.

1. Boxed Lunches and Sandwich Trays Are Simple

When it comes to lunch meetings in Houston’s Galleria and Greenway Plaza districts, you know that easiest is often best. Working with us helps you focus on your other tasks instead of calling to confirm your orders, hoping they arrive on time, and fearing that the food order could be lost altogether. With a catering concierge looking out for you, the simple meal is also easy to order.

We help you choose box lunches or sandwich trays to streamline the eating experience while offering a wide array of choices. Because box lunches come contained and ready to go, they’re simple to eat and don’t create a sticky mess, which minimizes meeting disruptions. The same goes for sandwich trays, which avoid the traffic jams of buffet lines and serving utensils, which take up a lot of room, suck time away from the meeting, and create noisy distractions.

In fact, box lunches and sandwich trays, which come with some sides, encourage self-service and a no-fuss atmosphere. Attendees can focus on mingling or finishing their meals before the meeting even begins. Everyone can find something they like quickly, which allows the meeting to proceed efficiently, finish on time, and perhaps end a few minutes early. Suddenly, everyone feels a lot better about lunch meetings now that they’ve been well-fed and were able to leave the meeting on time. By choosing box lunches or sandwich trays, you’ve more value to the office than merely securing food for the meeting.

On your end, box lunches and sandwich trays save you time and effort. With our help, even if you submit your order an hour-and-a-half in advance, you can expect same-day fulfillment. Best of all, because box lunches and sandwich trays encourage self-clean-up, so you save time tidying up after the lunch meeting. That’s a perfect solution for last-minute lunch-meetings that are likely to crop up right when you’re busiest.

2. Boxed Lunches and Sandwich Trays Are Versatile

Box lunches and sandwich trays are an excellent solution for many events, such as regular lunch meetings, lunch-and-learns, and conferences with anywhere from 200 to 400 attendees. When you bring people together to eat, they are bound to bring different food preferences and habits with them, but by offering flexible choices, you set yourself up for success.

The boxed lunch, which is handy to eat on-the-go, is particularly convenient for speakers or executives who need to leave for the airport or other travel right after the meeting or conference. In a setting without enough seating, boxes enable attendees to find another space on campus and eat in small groups. Additionally, after the meeting, attendees can smoothly pack up their box lunches or sandwiches to take away and finish later without creating a mess.

In contrast, sandwich trays provide the opportunity to showcase beautiful trays of food that attendees can mix and match to try different things, instead of only getting the sandwich in your box. This can foster fun conversations about the creative food choices you made and bring people together in a community atmosphere that might make the meeting run smoother.

With minimal effort, you can ensure that you will have appropriate options for any vegetarian, vegan, and gluten-free attendees, as well as accurately prepared meals for any attendees with food allergies or other restrictive diets. Veggie sandwiches, gluten-free bread, and salads can be swapped for standard options.

And because the right catering company will work to guarantee the versatility of your menu, you can accommodate any extra meeting or conference attendees by ordering a few extra box lunches or arranging for large sandwiches to be cut in half for sandwich trays. This is a big advantage over sit-down set menu service, which can be less forgiving if you have an extra vegetarian.

3. Boxed Lunches and Sandwich Trays Can be Crowd Pleasers

If everyone in your office groans when they’re having a working lunch, they probably expect boring sandwiches and uninspired potato chips for side dishes. When you work with us, we listen to you to get a sense of your office culture and preferences to find out-of-the-box lunch choices that will fit your budget and please even your pickiest eaters.

Favorites include BBQ brisket sandwiches, lobster rolls, tacos, and steak wraps. Especially if there are a lot of men in the office, these unexpected proteins will make them happy. In addition to a variety of sandwiches, including turkey, ham, roast beef, chicken salad, and tuna fish (an excellent choice for Lent!), you can surprise the office with Caprese sandwiches, salads, and black bean or quinoa burgers. Corporate catering clients love our warm box lunches with paninis and cold lunches with fresh subs or nutritious wraps. We help you find high-end executive box lunches with a higher quality of meat and bread for meetings meant to impress.

We also source food your office wants to eat, like freshly made sandwiches and salads from Stone Mill Bakers, Firehouse Subs, and California Pizza Kitchen, as well as no-hormone chicken sandwiches from Local Foods and Au Bon Pain. It’s hard to find same-day baked bread and ethically sourced meats for catered meals, but if those are important to your team, we can help you wow your foodies.

For unexpected favorites, we bring you crawfish po’boys from Boudreaux’s or Ragin Cajun, Mediterranean gyros or shawarma wraps from Fadi's Mediterranean Grill, and spicy Kati rolls from Bombay Pizza Company. It’s fun to mix up the usual sandwiches with creative lunch options at the same price-point with the same amount of clean-up.

Another way to elevate the entire lunch is to be creative with the side dishes. Instead of accepting default sides, we help you select upgraded sides, such as a variety of green salads, fruit cups, homemade potato chips, seasonal vegetables, potato salad, pasta salad, and Asian slaws.

We also recommend upgrading your dessert options for a wow-factor. Premium desserts like mini cupcakes or macaroons that are easily packaged, served, and enjoyed will put smiles on faces as the meetings wrap up. We work with Dessert Gallery Bakery and Café, whose sandwiches come with chocolate-dipped cookies that are sure to make a splash and win you positive feedback.

The next time you have to set up a lunch meeting, lunch-and-learn, or conference, consider our tips for box lunches or sandwich trays can deliver variety, accommodate dietary restrictions, and make the whole event easy from planning to clean-up. Office catering never has to be difficult again.

How have you ordered lunch for the office in the past in Houston’s Galleria or Greenway Plaza? What food choices have been the biggest hits with your team? Whatever your needs or challenges, we would love to work with you and help you transform lunch meetings into anticipated events.

Let's do lunch!