Revealed: The 2026 Top 30 Movers & Shakers: Catering

In 2026, catering has become one of the fastest-growing engines of brand loyalty and scale in the restaurant industry, and a new class of leaders is rewriting…

Top 30 Movers & Shakers in Catering 2026

This annual initiative shines a spotlight on the visionary leaders, innovators, and brands redefining off-premises dining. From pioneering game-changing…

Presented by MONKEY Catering Platform

Nominations closing soon for 2026 Top 30 Movers & Shakers: Catering

July 23, 2026

Time is running out to nominate catering industry leaders for the Top 30 Movers & Shakers: Catering, with submissions closing July 28.

What the data says about restaurant catering today

by Mandy Wolf Detwiler — Editor, Connect Media

As corporate catering transforms into a critical growth engine for the restaurant industry, top brands will share their battle-tested, data-driven playbooks…

Nominations now open for Top 30 Movers & Shakers: Catering

by Cherryh Cansler — Publisher, FastCasual.com

Nominations will close July 28, 2026.

Standardize Without Strangling: The Multi-Location Catering Paradox

How the best multi-unit brands protect brand consistency without killing the local flexibility that actually drives catering revenue.

Presented by MONKEY Catering Platform

Your Best Customers Are Already in Your Database

Why a purpose-built CRM - not pricing, not promotions - is the real growth engine for catering.

Presented by MONKEY Catering Platform

The State of Catering 2026: What the Data Is Really Telling Us

The State of Catering 2026 is a market report built on real transactional data from 100+ restaurant brands across the MONKEY network, 8,000+ locations, $1B+ in…

Presented by MONKEY Catering Platform

Catering is not takeout. Mixing it together stifles growth.

Catering is a fundamentally different business from takeout, and the tech built for one simply cannot run the other well.

Presented by MONKEY Catering Platform

The 5 Stages of Catering Maturity: Where Does Your Brand Stand?

The brands with 20%+ of revenues attributable to catering didn't start there, they moved through the same stages many other operators did. What separates them…

Presented by MONKEY Catering Platform

Valsoft acquires MonkeyMedia

May 5, 2025

Valsoft Corp. Inc., a Canadian company specializing in acquiring and developing vertical market software businesses, has acquired MonkeySoft Solutions from…

Cartwheel, MonkeyMedia integrating to deliver automated catering operations

May 2, 2025

Restaurants may now streamline and automate their catering delivery operations, thanks to a partnership with delivery management platform Cartwheel and…

ezCater secures $150M in latest funding round

April 2, 2019

Online catering marketplace, ezCater, has raised $150 million is a Series D-1 investment round co-led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and GIC, which will go…

EzCater acquires Monkey Group

March 27, 2019

EzCater, an online catering marketplace, has acquired Monkey Group, an enterprise software, training and insights company, and the developer of Monkey, a cloud…

Top 100: People – Erle Dardick, MonkeyMedia Software

October 31, 2014

Erle Dardick, CEO of MonkeyMedia Software, is number seven on our list of the 2014 Fast Casual Top 100 Movers & Shakers: People.