Caterers and Food Trucks / Los AngelesLA County

Websites for caterers and food trucks in Los Angeles.

We build your site before the first meeting, then customize it with your real name, services and reviews. Approve it and go live the same day. $500 down and $49/mo, or $1,500 to own it.

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Nº01 / LocalCaterers and Food Trucks in Los Angeles

How Los Angeles hires.

Los Angeles catering has a customer no other county has: production. Shoots permitted through FilmLA in Hollywood, Culver City and across the Valley need craft services and hot meals on a call sheet schedule, and the studios, agencies and post houses order lunch for the office every day. Add the weddings from Malibu to Pasadena, the corporate calendar Downtown and in Century City, and the quinceaneras and family events across the Eastside and South LA.

Trucks run a separate city. The LA County Department of Public Health permits the truck and requires a commissary, and the truck carries a letter grade like a restaurant. The stops that matter are known: Smorgasburg at ROW DTLA on Sundays, First Fridays on Abbot Kinney, the breweries of the Arts District, the office parks of Playa Vista, and the lunch rotations that fill a block for ninety minutes.

Knowing Los Angeles

The business geography of Los Angeles runs along its corridors: Ventura Boulevard through the Valley, Melrose and Beverly across the middle of the city, Figueroa through Highland Park, Crenshaw through the southwest, and Gaffey down into San Pedro. Local customers navigate by those streets.

Permits go through the Department of Building and Safety with its well-known queues. LADWP handles water and power inside city limits while Edison and SoCalGas pick up at the borders, and street parking rules can decide when a crew can start.

Angelenos hire off screens because the city is too big to hire any other way. Nobody drives from Eagle Rock to Mar Vista to size up a contractor’s shop. They size up the website, the reviews, and the response time.

Areas we cover

Silver Lake, Highland Park, Sherman Oaks, West Adams, Koreatown, Mar Vista, Eagle Rock, San Pedro.

Permits run through LADBS, power through LADWP, and the housing stock spans 1910s Craftsmans to new small-lot builds.

Nº02 / The briefFor caterers and food trucks

What your site actually needs to do.

  • 01

    Inquiries come in as a two-line email asking how much for fifty people. You spend an hour answering before you know the date, the venue or the budget.

  • 02

    The truck schedule lives in Instagram stories that expire. Regulars cannot find you on Thursday, and the office that wants to book you cannot find a form.

  • 03

    Deposits and contracts happen over text and a payment app. A client who cancels the day before costs you a day of food and staff, and nothing was signed.

What we build for caterers and food trucks.

  • Inquiry form that qualifies: date, headcount, venue, service style and budget range, so every reply you write is a real quote and not a question.
  • Menus and packages as pages: per-person tiers, sample menus and dietary notes that Google can read and a client can forward to the person who signs.
  • Schedule and location feed: this week’s truck stops on a map with times, updated from your phone, with a text list for regulars who want to know where you are.
  • Deposits and contracts: a booking that takes the deposit by card and gets the agreement signed before you buy a single ingredient.
  • Corporate and production accounts: a page for offices, production companies and event planners with recurring orders, dietary counts and invoicing.
  • Booking calendar: dates you already hold shown as taken, so inquiries land on days you can actually serve, and a text to you the moment one comes in.

What that looks like in Los Angeles.

Production catering is bought by coordinators with a call sheet and a deadline, not by a couple planning a wedding. A page written for them, with per-head pricing for crew meals, craft services, dietary counts, a form that asks the shoot dates, the location and the crew size, and invoicing for production companies that pay on terms, puts you in front of the people who book the same caterer for every job.

A truck’s site is a schedule first. This week’s stops on a map with times, updated from the cab, and a text list for the regulars who want to know when you are back in Highland Park or Sawtelle. Under it, a private booking form for the brewery in Frogtown, the office in Playa Vista or the birthday in Eagle Rock, asking the date, headcount and budget so you can say yes or no in one reply.

Weddings and family events run across a county too large to drive on a hunch. A site that lists the venues and neighborhoods you actually serve, from the Westside to the San Gabriel Valley, shows sample menus for a backyard quinceanera in Boyle Heights and a rooftop reception Downtown, and takes the deposit and the signed agreement before you buy, gets the event without the six emails that usually come first.

Nº04 / PricingTwo ways to pay

Same build. Two ways to pay.

You keep your domain either way.

Standard.PKG

$1,500One time

A complete site that gets you found, trusted, and called.

  • Up to 5 pages, designed and written for you
  • Built before our first meeting, live the same day you approve
  • Contact form that texts your phone when a lead comes in
  • Click-to-call, booking embed, and service-area map
  • Google Business Profile, Search Console & LocalBusiness schema
  • Google Reviews live widget
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Department.PKG

$99Per month

We run your whole web presence. You run your business.

  • We spot improvements and make them before you ask
  • Review monitoring + help responding
  • Ongoing content & SEO refreshes to keep you ranking
  • Photo gallery refreshes from shots you send
  • Lead-form monitoring so you never miss an inquiry
  • Monthly plain-English performance report
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// Questions3 answered

Asked by caterers and food trucks in Los Angeles.

Yes. You post the stop, the time window and a note, and the page and the map update at once. Regulars get a text when you post if they signed up. No app, no story that expires at midnight.