Top Hat is a family-owned Irvine caterer. We have served Orange County businesses for about forty years. Meals are scratch-made. We aim to be on time and easy to work with in real office buildings, not only on paper.

Labor Day Week: Ease Back Into Work Without Food Chaos

The week around Labor Day is a reset. People come back from time off. Q3 work piles up. Someone always asks if the regular lunch order is “officially” back on. Good food service should make that week easier, not add another open question to the group chat.

Busy week? Boxed lunches help

When everyone returns at once, sending the whole team out to eat burns time and parking. Boxed lunches give each person a labeled meal, a quick pickup, and fewer questions about allergies or diets at the table. If you need talking points for “why not just order delivery apps,” this post covers the time savings in plain language: boxed lunches and a more productive workday. Team events still need a plan

Team Events Still Need a Plan

Back-from-summer parties still need basics covered: where the truck parks, ice, trash, and a phone number that answers if the room changes. Office catering in Irvine pulls together office parties, milestones, and everyday workplace meals so you are not hunting a new vendor for every date on the calendar. When clients are on site or you are running a scripted all-hands, the bar goes up. That is the same work we list under corporate event catering: accurate headcount, dietary notes that match the list, delivery on your schedule.

Picking a caterer you can trust

Even a casual team lunch hurts trust if it is forty-five minutes late. Here is a short checklist-style post on what reliability looks like for us in Irvine: reliable corporate catering in Irvine.

Where we work

We deliver across Irvine, Newport Beach, Costa Mesa, Santa Ana, Tustin, Lake Forest, Anaheim, Huntington Beach, and the rest of Orange County. The same cities and hours we list on the rest of the site apply here.

Monday–Friday, 9 AM–5 PM Pacific, closed weekends

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