2. Food is our forte.
People are our passion.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Table of Contents……………………………………………………………………..1
Contact Information ................................................................................................... 2
About Footers Catering .............................................................................................. 3
About the Footers Family .......................................................................................... 4
Community ................................................................................................................. 5
Company Culture ....................................................................................................... 6
Innovation .............................................................................................................. 7-8
Facts & FAQ .............................................................................................................. 9
Awards & Recognition............................................................................................. 10
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4. FOOD IS OUR FORTE.
PEOPLE ARE OUR PASSION.
About Footers Catering
Today Footers Catering is a second-generation family owned business, owned and operated by Jimmy’s son Anthony Lambatos and Anthony’s wife, April Lambatos.
Passionate about the catering industry, both Anthony and April worked their way up
from the bottom scraping plates and doing dishes. After purchasing Footers Catering in 2010 Anthony and April have worked together to build one of the best companies to work for through a fresh new culture that focuses on fun and innovation while staying true to its gourmet roots and carrying on the standard of excellence expected of Footers Catering.
INSPIRED SOCIAL GATHERINGS
Footers’ passion for creating memorable events and making people happy is at the center of what Footers Catering stands for today. Footers will take care of all the details including clean up so their clients can interact with their guests, stay up late and enjoy their event.
CREATIVE CORPORATE PARTIES
Footers makes their clients business their business and they understand the importance of team building and growing business. Footers strives to make every corporate event a memorable experience that brings people together.
IMPACTFUL NONPROFIT GALAS
Footers knows hosting a fundraiser is not an easy task. Footers partners with non-profit organizations to:
Maximize the return of each event by giving top value for the dollars spent.
Help promote each event to increase guest attendance.
Create an event that stands above the rest to ensure supporters continue to attend year after year.
ELEGANT WEDDINGS
Footers’ wedding planners cater to unique tastes, making sure every vision of their clients wedding dream becomes a reality. As a full- service catering company, Footers offers a wide array of services to ensure every wedding runs smoothly to make the couples’ special day perfect.
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Founded in 1981 by Jimmy Lambatos, Footers Catering is a top Denver caterer committed to exceptional quality and incredible service. For over 30 years Footers has helped create memorable events by providing personal service and the freshest food. Footers Catering is proud to offer full service event coordination that will bring any wedding, social party, corporate or charitable event to life.
MISSION
Love What We Do, Make it Better Everyday, and Create Exceptional Experiences For Our Clients and Their Guests
VISION
Be An Industry Leader In Culinary Excellence, Innovative Design, and Outstanding Customer Service By Valuing Our Team and Creating a Fun Place To Work.
5. Testimonials
People truly are Footers’ passion and they strive to create an awesome place to work. Footers does not use temporary staffing services, all of their staff are hired and trained in-house by their management team. This helps build a strong team that feels like family while guaranteeing top-notch service for all of their clients.
Footers has amazing chefs that clients have grown to know and love and often times request them by name. Their event coordinators get to know all of their clients and it is their goal to make each client’s event unique to their needs and wants.
Footers even has an Ambassador of Awesomeness to foster innovation to build and design cutting-edge displays to make each event unique. Growth and teamwork are important to Footers. They strive to help all of their team members grow along with the company and create a great place to work.
For more information on the Footers Catering team
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“I have and will always enjoy working with Footers Catering because everyone is treated as if they are family. All of our opinions are valued and we move forward as a family not just a company. By having that environment it truly makes me value and love my job even more, because I know that no matter what, everyone will support me both personally and professionally.“
—Kari Quinn,
Footers Catering Event Coordinator.
“Footers recently catered my wedding, and we could not be happier. We have received rave reviews about the food and the catering staff. They were very accommodating and helpful and worked with us every step of the way. They took care of all the setup and take down (including decorations, center pieces, rentals, chairs etc). Overall I couldn't be happier with the service and food we received, and we will definitely consider them for our next big event.”
—Susan W.,
Bride
“Footers Catering makes the planning and implementation of an event go off without a hitch. Their “can do” attitude is always present along with their eagerness to come up with fresh and innovative ideas.”
—Debra Burroughs,
The Anschutz Corporation
“Working with Footers Catering was one of the finest experiences I could have had. You were above and beyond excellent and the staff treated us like King and Queen.”
—Mrs. Pat Jones,
Bride
“Footers’ on-site service and professionalism was greatly appreciated, and in the end the staff’s attentiveness to clean up was excellent.”
—Nadine Leal,
Denver Public Library
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6. INNOVATION
Footers Catering encourages their team to think outside the box to make what they do better every day. Footers use of innovation has made them an industry leader while adding value to their clients. Footers use of innovation has helped business run more efficiently while adding art and creativity to their clients events.
To support their vision of innovation Footers Catering has a full time “Ambassador of Awesomness” with a master’s degree in architecture who focuses on innovation. The “Ambassador of Awesomeness” has helped Footers to create a synchronized digital scheduling system to manage event production and communication to help business run more smoothly. Footers has re-fabricated the standard industry chaffing dish to make it more efficient, light-weight and easier to transport and store. Footers Catering now has a superior product and has even sold their custom chafers to other catering companies.
Footers uses creativity to help bring their clients vision of an event to life through custom designed and built food stations to give clients events a unique look and feel . These custom stations include an Asian inspired four foot tall Chinese takeout bento box, a real life tailgate mounted on three empty kegs that brings the tailgate party to their guests to serve football themed items and a Colorado ski station customized with real skis and snowboards. These creative real life works of art add value to any event.
Footers Catering also uses one-of-a-kind displays to help bring a client’s specific vision to life. Recently Footers has designed a one of a kind vertical spiral bread tower for a client who wanted a more impactful display than a standard basket of bread.
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…If it doesn’t exist, create it.
7. The image to the right is of a custom beach inspired food station designed and built by Footers Catering.
The image below is of a
one of a kind giant Chinese
take-out box food station built
by Footers Catering.
The image above is a one of a kind vertical bread display created by Footers Catering at a clients request.
…If it doesn’t exist, create it.
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The image below is of a
one of a kind giant Chinese
take-out box food station built
by Footers Catering.
The image above is a one of a kind vertical bread display created by Footers Catering at a clients request.
The image to the right is of a custom beach inspired food station designed and built by Footers Catering.
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Community
BOOKLOVER’S BALL
For the past six years Footers Catering has had a close-knit relationship with the Denver Public Library supporting many of their annual events including their largest annual fundraiser, the Booklover’s Ball. In addition to providing outstanding food, drinks, and service for the event Footers Catering is dedicated to building an invaluable relationship with the Library. Owner, Anthony Lambatos, also sits on the sponsorship committee helping with fundraising and generating awareness for the library. Lambatos’ ongoing involvement ensures a healthy working relationship that improves the event each year while giving back to the community.
WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT
The Footers Catering team helped put together a first time event for over 600 guest to benefit the Wounded Warrior Project. Members of the Footers team even volunteered their time and expertise to be on the planning committee for this event and took responsibility for logistics. In addition, Footers Catering sponsored the event, provided their services at a discounted rate and donated items for auction in support of the cause.
CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION
When the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation needed a location to host a small fundraiser – Footers offered up their one of a kind showroom at no charge and helped put on an event that both raised money and awareness for their cause. Instead of offering a discount, Footers offered a gift certificate for a dinner party for ten guests to be sold at a live auction for Anchor Center for Blind Children. This auction item raised over three times more than what a discount for the cost of the gift certificate would have been.
Footers Catering created unique book themed food stations and displays for the Booklovers Ball.
The image to the left is of the promotional invitation for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation fundraiser hosted by Footers Catering on Oct. 10, 2012
Footers Catering is not only about great food, drink and throwing parties, Footers is also about giving back. Supporting non-profit organizations and community involvement has been a longstanding tradition at Footers Catering, since 1981 when founder Jimmy Lambatos first supported the Junior League of Denver. Footers doesn’t just give money and great ideas, they give of their most valuable asset, their time and expertise. Every year Footers supports more than 40 non-profits throughout the Colorado community. Footers doesn’t want to just write a check and have their name on a donor list. They strive to have a deeper relationship and partnership with non-profits and the community.
Community development is important to Footers Catering on both an individual level as well as corporate. Footers Catering owners, April and Anthony Lambatos, are both involved in the community during their free time and encourage the entire Footers team to do the same. To encourage community involvement Footers Catering has staff suggest organizations and causes important to them that they would like to have Footers Catering support and the entire team will vote and Footers will then get involved with the winning suggestion. Some of the organizations that the Footers Catering team support or are involved with are:
Denver Public Library
Veterans Green Jobs
Wounded Warriors Project
Junior Achievement
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
We Don’t Waste
Minds Matter
Cancer League of Colorado
Colorado Youth at Risk
Mile High Young Professionals
South Metro Chamber of Commerce
Café 180
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9. "We really want to create a great place to work, where our employees can express themselves, grow and know that their hard work directly impacts the success of our company."
—Anthony Lambatos
Footers Catering, Owner
Footers Catering strives to create a great place to work with part of their mission being “Love what we do”. Footers facilitates their mission by allowing their employees to express themselves. One way Footers has supported their employees in expressing themselves is by having an office painting party when they moved to their new location where their employees got to paint and decorate their offices to help create an atmosphere all their own. Footers even has an “Awesomeness” room where employees can take a break and play a game of foosball, ping pong or shoot some hoops.
In addition to loving what they do, Footers Catering also dedicated to excellence and has an employee recognition and reward program for when their employees display any of the Footers Catering values.
Footers Catering owners, April and Anthony Lambatos, believe in having fun at work and encourage their employees to do the same. Footers Catering has truly found a system that allows their employees to have fun and be themselves at work while maintaining productivity, growth and continuing to offer exceptional food and service.
“After working at Footers Catering for over five years, what I love the most is that not only do we provide amazing food, but we have a great team. I take pride in the fact that I work somewhere that not only is productive and ahead of the curve but also very fun. That kind of atmosphere goes a long way in helping provide the best product and service we can.”
—Charles “Chip” Smith
Footers Catering Event Captain
TEAMWORK is the ability to work together toward a common vision. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.
EXCELLENCE is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
Probably no greater honor can come to any man than the RESPECT of his colleagues.
ETHICS is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do.
There are no great limits to GROWTH because there are no limits to human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.
SERVICE is the awareness of needs, problems, fears, and aspirations.
Take the best that exists and INNOVATE it. If it doesn’t exist, create it.
It is all about quality of life and finding a BALANCE between work and friends and family.
The Footers Catering “Awesome” room featuring foosball, ping pong, a basketball hoop and a draw-erase wall full of inspiration and awesome client comments.
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Culture & Values
10. FACTS & FAQ’S
Footers Catering got its name from an Italian chef who was flown in to develop the menus for the original Footers Restaurant whose nickname was “Footer’.
The catering industry first emerged in ancient Greece from the hospitality industry after the first hostels and inns were built.
Each year Footers caters over 600 events and over 130 weddings.
In 2012 Footers prepared more than 10,000 meals.
The Footers Catering team consists of 35 fulltime and 75 part- time employees.
In 2012 Footers Catering served 6,165lbs. of tenderloin.
The first meal on the moon, eaten by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, was turkey in foil packets.
The Footers Catering kitchen alone is 4,800 square feet.
In order to provide the freshest meals possible Footers has their own herb garden on their property where they grow fresh herbs including, sage, rosemary, thyme, chives, basil, cilantro and mint.
The catering industry consists of over 10,000 companies.
What does Footers Catering do?
Footers is a top Denver caterer and provides full service event coordination for all kinds of events including weddings, private parties, holiday, corporate and charitable events.
What makes Footers unique?
Footers Catering has an “awesome” culture that focuses on fun and people.
Footers prepares and cooks all of their food on-site to ensure it is as fresh as possible.
All of the staff at Footers is trained in-house, as a result guests receive top-notch service.
Footers offers customized menus which allows them to design menus to fit the hosts vision.
What kind of services does Footers Catering offer?
Footers offers full event coordination to clients and is willing and able to help as much or as little as the client needs.
Footers provides a full service staff for events and will take care of setup as well as clean up and make sure all guests are taken care of.
Service styles include: buffet, plated, family style and stations.
Footers has rental items you may need including: tables, chairs, linens, plates, flatware, decor and more.
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11. COLORADO BIZ MAGAZINE 25MOST INFLUENTIAL YOUNG PROFESSIONALS
OCTOBER 2010
Footers Catering owner, Anthony Lambatos, was named one of Colorado Biz Magazine’s 25 Most Influential Young Professionals list for 2010 in recognition of his professional achievement, community involvement, ambition and perseverance.
2011 CATERSOURCE ACE AWARD REGIONAL SEMI-FINALIST
Footers Catering was a western regional semi-finalist for the Catersource Achievement in Catering Excellence (ACE) award which distinguishes industry leaders that show noteworthy achievement in the catering industry through culinary, business, community and professional development.
COLORADO’S FINEST HONOREE 2012
Footers Catering owner, April Lambatos, was acknowledged for her commitment to business, philanthropy and community by the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation as a 2012 Colorado’s Finest Honoree.
THE 2012 BIGGEST B.I.T.E WINNER
Footers Catering earned the title of the company with the Biggest B.I.T.E during the 2012 competition, facilitated by Intern America and Experience Pros, proving Footers Catering has the best values, an intimate company culture, is team oriented and encourages community development.
COLORADO’S WOMEN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE 2012 YOUNG PROFESSIONAL OF THE YEAR AWARD SEMI-FINALIST
April Lambatos, owner of Footers Catering was recognized as a semi- finalist for the 2012 Young Professional of the Year Award to recognize her accomplishments and contributions to the business community.
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