Tasty Catering is elated at our nomination as Best Catering Company at this year’s Jean Banchet Award for Catering Excellence! We’re incredibly honored to have our cuisine share nominations with the likes of Berghoff Catering, Levy Restaurants, and Limelight Catering. Nominees in each category are hand-picked buy a “Culinary Cabinet” composed of food and restaurant […]
Archives for 2010
CEO Tom Walter Featured in Daily Herald article, Small Business Outlook For Next Year C+
Daily Herald Columnist Jim Kendall polled the small business community to get a feel of the business out look for 2011 as well as posed to the question to local entrepreneurs, “What was the most important step you took to survive the recession?” Click here to see what Walter and other business owners had to […]
Tasty Catering Honored with Governor’s Sustainability Award
CHICAGO – Tasty Catering has been honored with the Governor’s Sustainability Award for significant achievements in protecting the environment, helping sustain the future, and improving the economy. Tasty Catering was presented with the award by the Illinois Sustainable Technology Center (ISTC) along with 26 other companies. Patrick Pankiw, Tasty Catering corporate sales account executive and […]
Tasty Catering is First Chicagoland Company to Win in Staples Small Business Hall of Fame
CHICAGO, Ill. – October 20 – Staples, Inc. (Nasdaq: SPLS) and the Chicago Bears have announced that Tasty Catering of Elk Grove Village, Ill., is the first “enshrinee” to be inducted in the Staples Small Business Hall of Fame. Tasty Catering is the first of four Chicagoland small businesses to receive this honor. In keeping […]
Tasty Catering featured in Chicago Tribune article, Ties That Bind
Chief Procurement Officer and co-owner, Kevin Walter was featured in the Monday October 11th, 2010 Chicago Tribune article entitled, “Family-owned businesses instill loyalty in tough times.” Kevin, is one of three Walter brothers who own Tasty Catering and since opening in 1989, the Walter brothers have treated all employees like family, which has helped to […]
Tasty Catering Named One of America’s Fastest-Growing Private Companies by Inc. Magazine
CHICAGO – Tasty Catering has been recognized as one of America’s fastest-growing private companies on Inc. magazine’s fourth annual Inc. 5000, an exclusive ranking of the nation’s fastest-growing private companies. The list represents the most comprehensive look at the most important segment of the economy—America’s independent-minded entrepreneurs. Tasty Catering is in good company with Illinois […]
Tasty Catering CEO Tom Walter featured in CBS News article, Handing Over My Company To Millennials Helped it Grow
Tasty Catering CEO Tom Walter’s article “Handing My Company Over to the Millennials Helped It Grow” was featured on bNET (the CBS Interactive Business Network. The article discusses how Tom got his catering company out of the rut and into younger, more innovative hands. To read the article, click here.
Tasty Catering Named One of Chicago’s 101 Best and Brightest Companies to Work For
CHICAGO – For the second consecutive year, Tasty Catering has been named as one of Chicago’s 101 Best and Brightest Companies to Work For by the National Association for Business Resources (NABR). In great company with customers such as Assurance, Comcast, Paylocity, Mortenson Construction, RSM McGladrey, and Wheels, Inc., other companies on the list include […]
CEO Thomas Walter Featured in Inc. Magazine article, Letting Employees Run The Company
Thomas Walter had the same reaction as many leaders have had upon encountering Jim Collins’s seminal Good to Great for the first time. First came the surge of enthusiasm. Then the question: How can my business be more like these? In 2005, Walter, who is CEO of Tasty Catering, a $5.3 million company in Elk […]
Tasty Catering Honored as Best Place to Work in IL
CHICAGO – Tasty Catering, based in Elk Grove Village, IL, was recently named as one of the 2010 Best Places to Work in Illinois in the small- to-medium category (25 to 249 employees). Selection is based on criteria developed by Best Companies Group, including employee surveys and interviews. Tasty Catering was competing with 19 other […]