CollectiveGreenSF

CGSF is utterly unreliable and is extremely mismanaged.
We contracted with CGSF to cater a large event for ~250 people. We were in continuous communication months before the event. Ken promised us that he would provide certain appetizers, entrees, adequate staffing, table numbers, table cloths, etc. We paid our deposit and the remaining contract amount before the event — epic mistake on our part.
The day of the event, Ken showed up late, with only 3 staff members to cater over 250 people, without the food he promised, without enough or the correct table cloths, without the correct table settings, the wrong freaking plates… the list goes on. The food was not what we had ordered, was not very good, and was not enough for all our guests. We had to have some of our own volunteers scramble around to help cater the event. Our guests left hungry and disappointed by the food. We were so extremely embarrassed about how the catering of the event turned out.
We demanded a refund of some of the money we paid. Ken agreed. This was another empty promise. Money can’t compensate for our disappointment. But Ken has failed to refund all of our money after he ruined the most important event of the year for our organization. Ken does not know how to manage his company and dealing with his inadequacy has been extremely frustrating.

The CGSF Team is absolutely incredible and unique. I contacted CollectiveGreen to host the New Year Holiday party for my company, after hearing about them from multiple referrals.
My fitness-​savvy company team was thoroughly impressed with the healthy food choices and selections that Ken (CGSF founder) and his team prepared for us. CGSF created a cook-​off experience, where our group of 30 was split in half to cook dishes with a few different chefs. We had so much fun working with Ken’s team creating organic, super-​food inspired, and delicious dishes like a sautéed sweet potato medley and chicken meatballs. It was hands-​on to say the least!
The chefs were knowledgeable and very friendly.
If you’re looking for a fun and engaging team building party, you should definitely contact CGSF– they’ll hook you up with the best experience!

I feel bad leaving a poor review since their food is so delicious, but the service is not great at all. Ken is an awesome guy, but the business seems really unorganized. We have been using them for about a month and our food hasn’t shown up twice now. And I usually get the email just a half hour before it is supposed to be here. As an office manager 30 minutes is not enough time to find a new place to eat for a whole office. We have also had problems with the driver showing up late with the food.
Its also hard for them to email me a menu for the week. I usually ask about 2 – 3 times a week if I can get a menu of what we will be eating so I can let our employees know and it never comes to me.

My company uses collective green and they are very hit and miss. The food is, meh, they’re often late and in most cases you end up eating the same thing 2 – 3 times in the same week. Of course its packaged as something different.
Example:
Monday we ate meatloaf, it was like these dry meatloaf patties, not very good. Wednesday we had hamburgers, the meat, you guessed it, the same meatloaf patties we ate on Monday.
They need to get more creative, mix it up, find more selection and keep notes not to keep feeding people the same stuff.

I feel like I searched a good while to find an excellent caterer that could bring in food for my team AND do it up for events, so I thought I’d share with everyone — Collective Green SF is legitimately the best caterer out there.
Ken Hernandez and his crew can set your team up with regular catering by just telling him «20 people, 2 vegans, 1 gluten-​free» and each week, you won’t even have to worry about your order. They’ll bring something new and different each time and best of all — HEALTHY! Everything is delicious but good for you. In addition, you can call and email with a real person, and not a sales rep. Bella is their Office Manager and is the sweetest, plus she replies super fast to any questions.
I’ve also never gotten such great compliments on events until using them. Ken just gets it — you say «client mixer» and fancy foods with great presentation arrives. You say «girls happy hour» and pretty little treats and snacks arrive. If you need someone for holiday parties, his team would certainly add a special element to your event. I can’t speak highly enough about them!
Hope this helps anyone that’s looking!

Our company have been working with Collective Green’s for quite sometime now and we love them all around!
Their catering is not reminiscent to the platforms that are currently out in the market (Zesty, Cater2me. etc). They procur menus on their end and facilitate dietary restrictions to ensure that our employees with restrictions feel that they are well fed. We love the healthy style food that they deliver to us on a daily basis.
As an Office Manager, its quite important for me to not even worry about picking out the menu and trusting a platform that knows us well and this is what collective green does! I’m quite surprise to see bad reviews about them as i’ve never had any of those experiences with them.

If your company is willing to put down money to cater food for over 200 employees, there would be some expectations in quality/​quanity. Ken is a great guy (the only reason I give this 2 stars) but the greatness in business sure lacks.
A few major reasons that stand out:
1. If a company orders food for 200 people, then deliver food for 200 people — not 100.
2. Serve cooked food — I doubt anyone would enjoy uncooked eggs/​chicken. If there is a universal complaint about an uncooked meal, compensate for it. For an upcoming business, relationships are more important than the few dollars lost.
3. Work with companies when it comes to payments. Hounding them for payments 2 days before they are due isn’t helping the relationship either. Agreed, CollectiveGreen is a small upcoming business and funds are limited. But if you plan on catering to bigger companies/​events, manage internal funds better!
Again, this isn’t purely my opinion; I have heard the same from everyone I spoke with at our company.

I can’t say enough good things about Ken, his staff, and the food! Being an Office Manager I battle constantly with not pleasing everyone with staff lunches — until now! My staff has been so pleased with all the food that I haven’t herd one dislike yet — trust me, they aren’t shy about saying so. CollectiveGreenSF is my go-​to and I can’t thank them enough for the lovely food and beyond helpful staff. I’m surprised if anyone has a difference of opinion because if so — they must like non locally grown, gluten filled and un healthy food. A million thank you’s for the delicious food time and time again!

I’ve been stock with them at work as well. The lunches are as bland as it gets, very bland and boring. I don’t know if they have any culinary experience. We have got chicken gyros, chicken tandoori, chicken this, chicken that, but they are all baked bland chicken with absolutely NO spices. It has nothing to do with the name of the chicken dish.
We also get breakfast and it’s as bad. Every time I say I’ll give them another try today and it’s again pretty bad and I end up tossing it.
Have to say they started off pretty good (not the breakfast), but it was a very steep downhill, and now it’s pretty much inedible.

Steve and his team are amazing! We hired them for our holiday party this year and they did a fabulous job! They made sure all the food was hot and all our glasses were full of wine at all times! They even made a separate menu for our one vegan, she was very pleased! I will for sure use Collective Green SF again.

I’ve been stuck eating this at work for a while and I normally skip it now with a few of my coworkers to get something tasty nearby. Some of the dishes are okay, but it’s mostly bland and the options for pescetarians/​vegetarians are usually limited. Prepare to eat mediocre quinoa regularly if you too get corporate catering from them.
They have an affinity for sweet sauces and salads with sweet things in them which generally aren’t pulled off well. Today’s lunch included a grilled lettuce salad and I found my coworkers discussing the low quality of the lettuce amid puzzlement regarding why it was grilled in the first place.
I appreciate the healthy ingredients and the independent company but it sucks to be stuck with it.

Collective Green SF catered Art as Healing conference as San Francisco State University and the food was absolutely wonderful and filling. I find that many places use poor ingredient and so satisfying my appetite as a performer gets difficult. Collective Green SF left me feeling full and satisfied. Thank guys

CollectiveGreenSF catered my son’s first birthday (50 adults). ken (the owner) is fantastic– easy to work with, responsive, fair with pricing. and the food was great! i would highly recommend them to cater an event.