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Las Abuelas

5.0 (1 review)
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Corporate Caterers Of Wichita - Wedding Reception setup from May 2016.

Corporate Caterers Of Wichita

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During the midwest catholic family conference, we ate at the Drury hotel with food provided by…read moreCorporate. Employees were rude and they did not have enough food for everyone. They had the sorry too bad attitude. We had to ask for ice and the drink contrainers were taken beforelunch was even over. Next year, I will be eating at the hotel instead.

I went into this wedding with an intention to have a great dinner. I mean, with my time in Wichita…read moreand the number of reviews I've done on local businesses, to offer anything else other than an amazing spread would be doing a disservice to myself and the lady unfortunate enough to take my name and the reputation that comes along with it. So I tried to do something kitschy. I looked at a local Mediterranean restaurant, but even trying to cater a modestly-sized wedding (~100 people) like mine had me looking at upwards of $3,000. We were paying for this wedding ourselves and didn't want to start our lives together with an extra grand of debt because I wanted tabouli and hummus at our nuptials. I looked at maybe having a food truck coming out, giving us a lot of control over the menu while paying respects to some of the most creative cooking currently happening in town, but as the months ticked away they were too busy with their day-to-day business to give me the warm fuzzy feeling they were working towards building my menu. Less than four months prior to the big day and there was still no menu nor any idea of what it would cost. I didn't need that kind of stress among the hundreds of other decisions we had to make. Eventually I realized that the day was about our matrimony and the food was only going to be a small part of that. Ten, twenty, or thirty years from now, no one is going to remember what they ate. Even now, six months after the fact, I had to go back and look at what we ended up ordering. The food just needs to be good enough. As the stress piled up, what became more important to us was having an all-inclusive caterer that came with everything we needed for the meal so I didn't have to worry about providing the little things like napkins, silverware, or cups. So finally I broke down and talked to Corporate Caterers. Not because I didn't like their food - I've liked Ben Arnold's restaurants and I've used them before for other, smaller events - but because they're such a safe option due to their ubiquity. Eventually that safety became REAL appealing... something I could just order and let them run with things and know everything will turn out all right. We sat down with Ben, which is a little surprising in and of itself that the owner of this nearly 20-year old business would still be the one doing the meetings. He also does a lot of the cooking, so he can speak to all aspects of the business fairly easily. We picked some items off the menu for starters and he invited us back for his monthly tasting. Once a month he cooks 5-6 of some of the most popular dishes on the menu, and you can just come and try them all. After a very full afternoon of eating we actually ended up changing our two main proteins from what we originally thought we wanted, so it was a very beneficial experience. Ben explained that one of the keys to Corporate Caterers success is that they cook everything about 90% of the way there in his kitchen, then transport it to the site and finish cooking it there so it's not overcooked or dried out in transport, which seemed to make sense to me. Our modest menu had marinated top sirloin, marinated grill chicken, brussel sprouts, and roasted new potatoes. Contrary to many of my meals in Wichita, the meats were almost a little too overseasoned thanks to their marinades, but this aggressiveness ended up playing well with the guests, as i had several people ask me about the seasoning for the beef. The brussel sprouts were also a hit, to the surprise of many people. By the time the caterers arrived we were already well into the day's activities, so I never had any interaction with them, but they bring enough people and have enough experience to ensure things run along smoothly. We had fewer people show up than the minimum number of meals I had to order, so there was some substantial leftovers that they said they were going to give to a homeless shelter. Like everything else having to do with weddings, catering can be a real racket of businesses trying to bilk and pilfer as much money out of you as possible, but as the name implies, Corporate Caterers does more business-type events than weddings, so maybe that's why they charge a little less but still provide a catering experience that's largely unparalleled in Wichita. This wasn't my first time doing business with Ben and it probably won't be the last.

Las Abuelas - catering - Updated May 2026

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