Company Picnics, Open Days and Family Days

A company picnic is a different job from a corporate lunch, and the difference is not the food. It is that people arrive across two hours instead of all at once, half of them bring children, and nobody is sitting at an assigned table.

We bring a wood-fired pizza truck to picnics, open days and family days across Tennessee. Here is what makes those events work. If your event is closer to a seated lunch or an annual meeting, corporate catering is written up separately.

People arrive in a long trickle

This is the defining feature, and precooked food held in a warmer for two hours or more loses quality. It shows. Food set out at noon for a crowd that drifts in until two is either cold by the end or produced in a rush at the start.

A truck is built for a trickle. Pizzas come out of the oven continuously rather than in one push, so the person who arrives at 1:40 gets the same quality food as the person who arrived at 12:10.

Tell us the window rather than a single serving time. A two-hour service and a thirty-minute service require different preplanning, so the more information we have, the better.

Children are the whole ballgame

At a family day, roughly a third of your headcount may be under twelve, and they will eat less than an adult and be far more particular about it.

Pizza is the rare catering choice that does not require negotiating with a seven-year-old. A plain cheese or a plain pepperoni covers nearly all of them, and the ones who will only eat one thing can see exactly what is on a slice before they take it.

Give us your rough adult and child split when you book. It changes the number of pizzas more than the headcount alone does.

Outdoors, and what that actually requires

Picnics are outside, which suits us. We need somewhere reasonably level to park, room to put an awning out, and a route in a large vehicle can take. We do not need a kitchen or a hookup of any kind. The oven burns wood, and we carry our own water and a gray water tank.

Two things worth agreeing early. Where guests stand or sit relative to the truck, so a line does not form across a walkway. And the ground. A grass field after a wet week will not always hold a truck this heavy, and one we can cross on Wednesday is not always one we can cross on Saturday.

Rain itself is manageable. We cook inside with an awning over the service window. The question is where your people stand while they wait, and that is worth a plan.

What goes alongside

Salads work well at a daytime event, either individually portioned or self-serve in bowls. Consider our meatball dish and the pasta salad too, for a bit of variation on the table. The full list of what we make is here.

Booking your company picnic

Send us the type of event, the date, the location with city and state, the serving window rather than a single time, and your estimated headcount with a rough adult and child split. The same list is on our catering page.

We cover Tennessee from Nashville to Chattanooga and from Fayetteville across to Crossville, and we are based in Coalmont.