FOOD INDUSTRY NEWS DECEMBER 2016
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DECEMBER 2016
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Elk Grove, Illinois-based Tasty Catering has turned a successful, familyowned and operated business into a thriving member of Chicagoland’s culinary community. With a 7-point credo that dictates “High customer service standards” to “Freedom and responsibility within the culture of individual discipline,” Tasty Catering has grown from a humble hot dog site to a large 22,000 sq-ft facility for the creation of amazing, edible creations. Beginning in the 1980s with Tasty Dawg, the first of several fast food hot dog restaurants, they began picking up requests for catering, beginning with smaller lunch orders and soon growing into entire picnics and corporate events. In 2005, they moved on from hot dogs and into their new facility to accommodate the expansion in sales, food and event production, services,
menus and employees. Today, Tasty Catering stands at the top of area caterers, handling some of the area’s most unique spaces gave their chefs opportunities to produce exceptional cuisine: Winter salad, cod with fresh citrus segments, smoked pit ham, Great Lakes cheese selection, goat cheese and grape truffles and their festive dessert table are among the holiday selections this month. While one of their suggestions is a “Blue Christmas,” they admit that blue food isn’t easy to come by, but if it means putting a perfect finish to the holiday season, the mission is well worth the effort. Tasty Catering has been catering Chicago since 1989. They are recognized by Forbes “Best Small Companies in America.”
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