MONKEY Catering Platform News & Media

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.

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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…

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Nominations now open for Top 30 Movers & Shakers: Catering

by Cherryh Cansler — Publisher, FastCasual.com

Nominations will close July 28, 2026.

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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.

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Your Best Customers Are Already in Your Database

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

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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…

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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.

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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…

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