Catering by Royal Gourmet

I have used Royal Gourmet for over eight years now for my workshops and seminars. I was very surprised by some of these reviews because I have always found RG to be extremely easy to deal with, very flexible concerning my menu selections, always on time and most importantly always delivering excellent food that gets rave reviews from my clients. We usually do a lunch… if I don’t serve their pulled pork I have upset client… or breakfast and always have some type of break included. As a result of RC catering my events, I know that many of my clients have used RC too and again always to rave reviews. I would highly recommend Royal Gourmet for any catering function from a casual pig roast to weddings.

We used Royal Gourmet to cater our outdoor tent wedding in September. The planning process was very easy and they offered a tasting which we liked. The service at the event was pretty surly (no smiling, generally annoyed attitude) and the food was ok. All in all I felt nothing to really warrant a good or bad review. Then over the holidays I met up with some friends that I had not seen since the wedding and heard about the table throwing incident. Towards the end of the reception, a strand of our tent perimeter lights went out. I guess this caused the caterers to not have enough light over at the catering station outside of the tent so they had to use their headlights to give them additional light. I guess this really pissed them off because my friends said they were packing up and slamming boxes with plates into the truck. Then one of the boxes fell of the truck and I’m assuming some stuff was broken. So one the caterers got even more irate that she dropped the box and went over to a table and flipped in over (real housewives style). I asked another couple that had sat at that same table to see if they noticed this episode too and they did but didn’t want to tell us because only their table saw and they know I would be so embarrassed. The owners are nice but the people they send out to cater are terrible. It’ sad that when you ask people if they had a good time at your wedding and the most memorable part was how awful the caterers were.

«I have been very pleased with Royal Gourmet’s catering. Everything is made fresh from scratch. I am also a huge fan of the beef from their sister company Kessler Farms. They have the best ever all natural farm raised beef which you can purchase by the lb or a whole side. Their prime rib got rave reviews from my family over Christmas. It was better than what I have had at famous restaurants. My nephews told me they would paint my deck and mow my lawn anytime in exchange for another meal like that!»