Catering Rogers AR: Notice, Prices and Clinic Lunches

Show notes

Catering in Rogers, AR generally takes 24 hours' notice. Two hosts go through who orders, what a meal costs per person, how a clinic lunch differs from an event, and how to choose a kitchen, with a look at Rx Catering NWA.

Read the full article:

https://rxcatering.net/blogs/news/catering-rogers-ar-clinic-office-lunches

Watch the video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oE3ab7xgu-o

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Rx Catering NWA

121 West Township Street, Fayetteville, AR 72703

Phone: (479) 502-9879

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Website: rxcatering.net

Full transcript

Dakota: Welcome to the Hometown Trades Journal. I'm Dakota, and Roger's with me.

Roger: Hello, Dakota. The subject today is catering in Rogers, Arkansas, home to Mercy Hospital Northwest Arkansas on South Rife Medical Lane. Rule number one: generally twenty-four hours' notice.

Dakota: Okay, a day's notice. Whose kitchen is this about?

Roger: The crew at R-X Catering N-W-A. They cook in Fayetteville and deliver to Rogers. The company dates to two thousand one, and its Fayetteville kitchen has served Northwest Arkansas since fall twenty twenty-five.

Dakota: Who is calling in these orders?

Roger: Their corporate customers are mostly pharmaceutical reps feeding clinic and hospital staff. Behind the stove are former pharmaceutical representatives and executive chefs, with sixty-plus years of combined experience between them. Now, the Rogers-Lowell Chamber's undated list puts Mercy Healthcare at three thousand people across Rogers and Lowell. That describes the city. It doesn't say who the kitchen feeds.

Dakota: What does a plate run, per person?

Roger: Meals are priced per person, and these are starting prices from the store. Assorted sandwich trays start at eleven dollars and twenty-nine cents, minimum ten. A box lunch, with a wrap, chips, a cookie and a fruit bowl, starts at thirteen dollars and forty-nine cents. Hot breakfast is thirteen ninety-nine, and beef brisket is sixteen ninety-nine. Sides are three dollars a person. Extras are separate: a fruit tray from sixty-two ninety-nine, and banana pudding shooters at three fifty each.

Dakota: Does a clinic lunch get set up the way an event does?

Roger: No. An office or clinic lunch comes in insulated carriers, ready to serve. For an event, the crew sets up chafing dishes on site. Serving utensils, plates, napkins and cutlery come with hot meals either way. A pharmaceutical rep named Bernie wrote in a review that, in Rogers or Bentonville, the delivery is handled professionally and the food quality is consistent.

Dakota: So how does anyone pick one kitchen over another?

Roger: First, a posted price list, so the total exists before anyone picks up a phone. Then the notice, against your date. Then reviews with detail. Remus wrote that feeding a hundred fifty-plus guests can be a nightmare, but they made it affordable and seamless. The kitchen is A-D-H certified, belongs to the Arkansas Restaurant Association, and was a Best Caterer finalist at AY Magazine and the Arkansas Times in twenty twenty-four. Dakota, you've got a clinic booking in your notes, right?

Dakota: I do. Marcus is a pharmaceutical rep with a lunch to order for fourteen staff at a Rogers clinic. The month before, a sandwich order from a chain arrived two meals short. So on a Tuesday he called the crew at R-X Catering N-W-A for a Thursday lunch at eleven thirty.

Roger: What did Marcus put on the order?

Dakota: Fourteen box lunches at thirteen forty-nine, and fourteen banana pudding shooters at three fifty. The bill for the food was two hundred thirty-seven dollars and eighty-six cents, before tax. Each lunch was packed for one person, so the staff could eat between patients.

Roger: And did the count come out right?

Dakota: It did: fourteen staff, fourteen lunches, nobody a meal short. Marcus made one call on Tuesday, and Thursday took care of itself.

Roger: So what goes on the checklist before the call?

Dakota: A day's notice, a price per person against the heads in the room, and a setup that suits the space. That covers most of a catering order in Rogers.

Roger: Find the crew at R-X Catering N-W-A, who cook in Fayetteville and deliver to Rogers, at R-X catering dot net. Or call four seven nine, five oh two, nine eight seven nine.

Dakota: Rogers, Arkansas, lunch starts with a call a day early. That's the Hometown Trades Journal. New episodes every week. Thanks for listening.