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Step into our kitchen and learn from Chef David how Nibblers makes Tortilla Crusted Stuffed Chicken.
Good food isn’t as hard to come by as it used to be. At one time a great menu was the only necessary differentiator, but the culinary arts have spread far and wide. Much to the pleasure of our palates, and with restaurants and kitchens at every corner, our options have grown significantly (and so have our purchase decision factors).
Nowadays, good food isn’t all you’re looking for when you contract someone else to do the cooking. It can’t be! Think about your last trip to a restaurant. Was the menu the only thing you remember? No way. Chances are you remember the atmosphere, the company and, perhaps most significantly of all, the service.
Caterers should be no different when it comes to the “service.” After all, we’re a customer service-oriented industry. Anyone who tells you that catering is “all about the food” hasn’t had much experience with good catering.
So, then, what is catering really all about? If we had to boil down our response to a single answer, it would be this: catering is all about pleasing you. “You,” to Nibblers, are our wonderful corporate clients whom we have the pleasure to serve sometimes as often as every day. And what’s important to you, we’ve found, is a compilation of things—including great food. Some of these things we’ve been since the beginning. For example, thanks to our terrific kitchen team, we have always had tasty menus created using only top ingredients, meats and dairy, and a clean kitchen that exceeds all food safety requirements. And some of these things we’ve perfected over the years, like our creative skills that continuously bring dietary-restricted clients tasty options as well.
Now, what sets us apart from, say, the national chain restaurants that have recently started to cater?
Well, for one, we’ve always been a caterer. As a caterer, our menus were created to be transported to your location, not adapted from a restaurant menu to tolerate transportation! We’re committed to putting fresh and made-from-scratch cuisine on your table. In fact, our food is delivered in temperature controlled vehicles with special transportation equipment because that’s part of what it takes to ensure you get the best-tasting food.
We were founded on a commitment to great catering service. Everything we’ve built is for your convenience and benefit, including our one-stop-shopping capabilities. You can order online or through a well-managed phone system, and you can order everything you need for your event all at one time. We don’t just drop off your order. We track it to the end and even contact you after the event for your honest feedback. All suggestions are welcome; it’s how we continue to strengthen our reputation as The Valley’s “Go To” Corporate Caterer!
You will always have a professional uniformed delivery driver and set up crew, and you will always have polite, friendly and professional staff serving your events. We call them our “waiters on wheels,” and they are 100 percent dedicated to delivering your food on time and on your table, all while meeting your corporate budget.
We’re a chef-owned, woman-owned local business. We’re not some chain restaurant that has no connection to the city we serve. We live and breathe Phoenix and the Valley and believe in supporting our town! In fact, we help out organizations such as Empact and various shelters, and we sponsor some of our client contacts when they are hiking or running for the American Heart and American Cancer Society.
Of course, our great menus and fresh food have certainly made a statement in Phoenix. But it’s our service and commitment to your needs that has kept client after client coming back with more orders that truly set us apart. It’s a differentiator that some companies just can’t match, and it’s a differentiator we will continue to grow because we believe that “catering,” is really “catering to you.” Our Nibblers family happily grows with every new relationship we form within the community because we see it as another opportunity to make someone’s day here in Phoenix, and we want to help make your day too.
Chef David has been on a 11 day trip to Argentina. Check out his blog to see breathtaking photos of the Argentinian & Chilean wilderness and to read about his adventures. Enjoy!!!
Another weekend, another bike ride. This time, Mayson, my granddaughter, and I each hopped on our own two wheels and started pedaling—in the beautiful spring weather—on our way to visit a client’s picnic.
Our journey was ambitious: 27 miles roundtrip. We left my driveway, riding along Missouri to 24th street to Camelback and up to the canal on 40th street. It was at that moment Mayson and I locked eyes in acknowledgement of the cupcake store up the road. Suddenly, our pedaling became slightly more determined, because we knew that on our return trip, that cupcake store would be getting a visit from two tired bicyclists. Yum!
Reluctantly, we passed the cupcake store and traveled down the canal toward Scottsdale, alternating between dirt paths and smooth pavement. To our left was Camelback Mountain, and all around us, Arcadia; it was a beautiful day.
Heading south on 68th street, we turned toward our destination: the SRP Pera Club. Mayson and I thought about stopping at the Ferrari dealer—just to look, of course!—but kept on going to the Bill Luke Chrysler/Dodge picnic and thus say hi to our clients and their guests. Don and Debra Luke, the dealership owners, just couldn’t believe we made the trip on our bikes. They live in the same neighborhood as I do, so they knew how far we’d come, but Mayson and I just smiled because we love our long Sunday morning bike rides.
Click here to watch our arrival at the Bill Luke Chrysler/Dodge picnic!
After the two of us saw all the fun the picnic-goers were having while eating, playing, jumping and winning prizes, we thought it was time for us to go have some more fun of our own—back at the cupcake store. Like a good grandmother, though, I did make the two of us have some lunch before we got any dessert. After a couple of burgers, Mayson enjoyed a grasshopper cupcake, and I had a snickerdoodle cupcake. Finishing our dessert put us into the home stretch.
It’s always amazing how much quicker the return trip is than the departing trip—no matter where you go, you always seem to get to home-sweet-home in no time. Before I knew it, we were sitting in a comfy chair, with our feet up and taking a little nap.
It’s always amazing how much quicker the return trip is than the departing trip—no matter where you go, you always seem to get to home-sweet-home in no time. Before I knew it, we were sitting in a comfy chair, with our feet up and taking a little nap.
Step into our kitchen and learn from Chef David how make quick and easy canapés out of simple items on hand.
We consider ourselves very fortunate to call Phoenix and The Valley our home. The landscape, the weather, the atmosphere, the people…it means something to us. So, when I was asked the other day about the power of a local company, it sparked the idea for this post.
Nibblers Catering has always been (and always will be!) a local company. We’re proud to be a positive element in the community where we live, we’re proud to know the clients we serve by more than just their names, and we’re proud of so many other things that we share with this community.
Nibblers Catering is a locally-owned, woman-owned and chef-owned business. We employ over thirty people throughout the community, each with very different backgrounds. Though our diverse staff represents a variety of cultural backgrounds, ages, interests and personalities, we all speak the language of food…and that has brought us together to serve our local community over and over again.
Our company is committed to freshness. We receive a delivery of fresh food and ingredients each morning and get started on your orders from scratch. It may not be the easiest way to feed our long list of loyal clients, but we’re a part of this community and the local economy, too. We live here, we work here, and our families are here. We want to treat you to the same high level of freshness to which we would treat our own families.
There’s a feeling of identity between local companies and the community—a feeling of identity that nationally-owned companies don’t always understand, but that often goes unspoken between members of a tight-knit community—and we are thankful to share in that experience.
-Diane
This recipe comes from Chef David’s childhood memory book! Click here for your very own Brown Sugar Oatmeal Crisps recipe card (3″ x 5″). Enjoy!!!
We’ve had our fair share of cold and rain lately, which is one of the many reasons my granddaughter, Mayson, and I had big smiles on our faces when we took out our bikes out last weekend for our weekly riding ritual.
The other reason, at least for my smile, was that Mayson and I were pedaling to McCormick Railroad Park in Scottsdale on our way to visit Jennings, Haug & Cunningham, one of Nibblers Catering’s happy clients, at their law firm’s outdoor picnic.
Our 21-mile roundtrip bike ride took about two and a half hours. We traveled north on 7th Avenue to Maryland, under the tunnel and out the other side before going up 22nd and across Lincoln to Scottsdale Road and Indian Bend.
When we pedaled up to the picnic, the client was surprised and a bit impressed to learn where Mayson and I had begun our trek. It was a long trip, but this grandmother-granddaughter combo loves riding our bikes. Plus, I love visiting clients, so it was the perfect opportunity to do both!
Other than seeing the smiling picnic-goers enjoying Nibblers’ hamburgers, hot dogs and pulled chicken sandwiches, our favorite part of the bike ride had to be taking the back roads near Camelback Mountain to see some beautiful homes while biking safely in a lightly-trafficked area.
Mayson and I are already excited for our next client visit. We’re looking forward to someone booking a picnic at Kiwannis Park in Tempe so we can bike along the canals to get there… so, who’s ready for an outdoor picnic in Tempe?!
Straight from our kitchen to yours. Warm up with our very own Turkey Black Bean Chili today!!! Click here for your very own Turkey Black Bean Chili recipe card (3″ x 5″). Let us know what you think.
For Valentine’s Day this year, we thought we’d share one of our favorite romantic recipes with you. Share this special Nibblers dessert with your Valentine, or better yet, try making it together! Happy Valentine’s Day. Click here for your very own Belgian Chocolate Truffles recipe card (3″ x 5″).