Notes on local catering, team events, and the chamber-restaurant network.
How offices plan team meals and offsites at neighborhood restaurants. How chambers turn a member directory into a useful, daily-used network. How restaurants build inbound catering revenue without changing what they already do well.
For office managers, HR leads, and EAs: what to put in the first email, what kills the conversation, the 24-hour rule, and three small things that make repeat orders easy.
For ChambersEvery chamber has a directory. Almost no chamber has a network. The difference: directories list, networks transact — and three signals tell you whether yours is working.
For RestaurantsCatering is the highest-margin work most restaurants do. A practical look at the marketplace tax, what chamber-curated networks cost (nothing), and the single highest-leverage habit: responding within 24 hours.