Medellín event catering since 2019
Medellin Elite Catering is the corporate caterer for companies that need food on time, to spec and on paper that their finance team accepts. Since 2019 we have fed board meetings on the Milla de Oro, product launches in Ciudad del Río and a year-end party for 900 employees, our largest single event to date.
We work for multinational offices, BPO and tech firms, startups around Ruta N, foundations, production companies and schools. Many of our corporate clients are foreign companies with a Medellín team, so every coordinator is bilingual and quotes, menus and invoices can come in English or Spanish.
Corporate catering is a repeat business, and we built our process for that: one coordinator per account, the same menus delivered the same way each week, and electronic invoices that match the purchase order line by line.
Plan your event
We cater every kind of company food in Medellín, from a coffee break for 12 to a conference for 900. The work falls into two types: recurring orders, such as weekly breakfasts or daily lunches, and one-off events, such as launches, trainings and year-end parties.
Our clients range from contact centers in El Poblado and Envigado to software teams around Ruta N in Sevilla, financial offices along Avenida El Poblado and production companies shooting across Antioquia. Each type of buyer has different priorities: HR wants a fair menu for everyone, marketing wants food that photographs well, and procurement wants the paperwork right.
All corporate orders are billed with a DIAN-validated electronic invoice, and quotes arrive itemized within 24 hours, Monday to Saturday. The sections below map our corporate services and explain what to expect from the first request to the final invoice.
Our corporate services cover the full working day and the full working year. Each group below has its own page with menus, formats and lead times.
Breakfast meetings work best with food that can be eaten while people talk: arepitas with quesito, perico (eggs scrambled with tomato and onion), fruit, yogurt with granola and good Antioquian coffee. Our breakfast catering service covers corporate breakfasts, coffee breaks and refrigerios (mid-morning snacks), either delivered ready to serve or set up by our staff.
Lunch is our most frequent corporate order, either as individual boxes for a meeting or as a daily lunch for a whole team. Our corporate lunch catering service explains formats, daily contracts and delivery windows by zone.
For conferences at Plaza Mayor or hotel ballrooms, product launches, trainings and office celebrations, see our corporate event catering service. December is the busiest month of the corporate year, and our Christmas party catering page covers year-end parties and novena gatherings for teams.
Some organizations buy catering like a company but work very differently. Productions need crew meals around a call sheet through our film set catering service, foundations and NGOs need menus and paperwork that satisfy donors and grant reports through our non-profit event catering service, and parent associations thank staff with our teacher appreciation catering.
Your procurement team will usually ask for our tax registration, legal existence certificate, bank certificate, staff food-safety training and proof of staff social security before the first order. We send the full supplier registration pack by email within 24 hours of a request, in Spanish, with English summaries if your head office needs them.
If your supplier form asks for anything beyond this list, such as a specific inspection record or safety-management documentation, our coordinator will tell you in writing what we can provide and when. We would rather answer precisely than promise a document we do not hold.
A corporate account turns repeat catering into a routine: one coordinator, standing orders that run without new quotes, and one invoice at the end of the month. Accounts suit companies that order at least weekly, such as a Monday team breakfast or lunch boxes for every training session.
Once your company has registered us as a supplier and approved the first order, recurring orders can be invoiced monthly with payment terms agreed in the contract. Your coordinator keeps the standing order, adjusts headcounts by email and rotates the menu so the same dish does not appear twice in two weeks.
Corporate contracts start with a tasting at our kitchen, which most companies use to let the HR or office manager approve the rotating menu. For daily meals at plants, warehouses and campuses rather than offices, our institutional catering services run on the same account structure.
Ordering takes three steps, and lead time depends on the format. Drop-off orders need 48 hours, staffed events two weeks, and events above 200 guests or in December are best booked two to three months ahead.
| Order type | Minimum notice | Format |
|---|---|---|
| Breakfast, coffee break, lunch boxes | 48 hours | Drop-off in compostable packaging |
| Drop-off hot buffet | 48 hours | Delivered in insulated Cambro carriers |
| Staffed event | 2 weeks | From 15 guests, with servers |
| Conference or event over 200 guests | 2 to 3 months | Staffed, with an on-site coordinator |
Use the quote form with the date, address, headcount, service style and any dietary needs. If you already have a purchase order format or a supplier form, attach it so the quote matches it from the start.
The quote reaches you within 24 hours, itemized line by line for food, staff, rentals and delivery. A deposit reserves one-off events, with the balance due 7 days before, while registered corporate accounts follow their contract terms.
Confirm the final number 7 days before a staffed event, or by the agreed cut-off for recurring orders. We bill the confirmed count and send the electronic invoice after the event.
Questions and answers
Yes, every order is billed with an electronic invoice (factura electrónica) validated by DIAN, Colombia's tax authority, and sent to the email your accounts team gives us. The invoice itemizes food, staff, rentals, delivery and tax, and it can carry your purchase order number and internal department code. Foreign companies paying from abroad can settle by bank transfer or a card payment link.
Drop-off breakfasts, lunch boxes and buffets need 48 hours' notice, and staffed events need two weeks. Conferences and year-end parties for more than 200 people are best booked two to three months ahead, and December dates sooner, because it is our peak season.
Reserve your date
Tell us your company, the kind of service you need and roughly how many people it feeds; a corporate coordinator answers with an itemized proposal within 24 hours. Procurement teams can request our supplier pack at info@medellincatering.com.