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Sample rows

10 of the 942 rows. Emails and phone numbers are masked here; the CSV has them in full.

What the list shows

California has the most listings: 129 businesses, 90 of them with an email address. Texas follows with 63.

No business name is used by 10 or more listings. 921 businesses have a name used only once.

The median Google rating of the 797 rated businesses is 5.0, and 406 have a perfect 5.0.

Of the 659 email addresses, 240 (36%) are role addresses such as info@, 179 (27%) name a person and 240 (36%) are free mail.

Source: ProfessionLens, November 2026.

What is in this catering food and drink supplier email list?

Google calls the category Catering food and drink supplier, and the CSV counts 942 listings in it as of 9 November 2026. A row is a company that provides food or drinks for events: a caterer that cooks for weddings and office lunches, a drop-off lunch service, a bar service, a coffee cart or a company that stocks event menus for others. A caterer with a commissary kitchen in one city and a second Maps pin in another is two rows.

In 659 rows an email address was found on the company's website, one per business. The phone column is filled in 902 rows and the website column in 720. Caterers take quote requests by phone and by a web form, which explains why phone coverage is so high.

All 942 rows carry the same Google category. To tell wedding caterers from corporate lunch services, you read the business name and, where you want certainty, the website.

How can you segment the file?

Caterers can be sliced in a spreadsheet by name, place and address type.

The business name is the best handle on what a caterer does. Words like wedding, BBQ, taco, corporate, boxed lunch, cocktail, coffee or bartending suggest the menu and the clientele. A seller of chafing dishes and one of cocktail ice want different slices of the same list.

State and city set the delivery range. Catering is local, as the van travels to the venue, so a supplier of linens or disposables needs shops within a day's drive of its warehouse. San Francisco and Oakland are on the city list next to each other with 15 and 12 listings, which makes the Bay Area a single territory.

Email type is evenly split between roles and personal mailboxes. Of the 659 addresses, 240 are role addresses such as info@ or events@, 240 are on free mail domains such as Gmail, and 179 are named-person addresses.

• Business name keyword: wedding, BBQ, corporate, boxed lunch, bartending, coffee.
• State and city: the delivery territory of your warehouse or route.
• Email type: events@ style role address for a booking desk, free-mail or named address for the owner.
• Website: 720 rows can be opened to read the sample menus.

Who buys a catering food and drink supplier email list?

The people who pay for this list sell into the catering kitchen and the event it serves. Foodservice distributors and specialty importers sell proteins, produce, cheese, sauces and baked goods. Beverage companies sell coffee, tea, mixers, wine and kegs, and ice suppliers keep bar services stocked.

Disposable packaging makers pitch boxed meal containers, cutlery, napkins and chafing fuel. Rental firms rent tables, linens, glassware and tents. Catering software vendors sell proposals, menus, deposits and kitchen prep sheets. Event insurance brokers, food truck builders, uniform suppliers and wedding platforms that list vendors also target this segment.

How do you run outreach to caterers?

A caterer reads mail around its event calendar. The week of a large wedding or a conference lunch, nothing gets answered. Send on a Tuesday or Wednesday morning, when prep for the weekend is done and the next order list is being written.

Use the address type to choose the first sentence. The 240 role addresses often land in a shared inbox where a sales coordinator sorts quote requests, so state your offer and ask to be passed to whoever buys supplies. The 179 named-person addresses and the 240 free-mail addresses reach owners and chefs, who prefer a price and a delivery day over a pitch deck.

Offer something a caterer can try on one event. A distributor can send a case of a product for the next tasting. A packaging seller can quote a boxed lunch container at three volumes. A software vendor can offer a proposal template for a first client. Caterers judge a supplier on whether the goods arrive on time, so mention delivery windows.

Check the website column for the type of event they cater and name it in your first line. Dedupe by domain, send a first batch of a few hundred and review the replies before sending more.

What email rules apply when you contact caterers?

Federal CAN-SPAM rules want your business's postal address in each commercial message and an opt-out that operates and is respected. If a caterer's events manager asks you to stop, take that address out of every later send.

Which states and cities should you start with?

California has 129 listings, Texas 63 and Florida 56. New York has 32, Illinois 18, then Arizona and Georgia 17 each, Colorado and Ohio 16 each and Pennsylvania 15.

San Francisco leads the cities with 15 listings, followed by Miami (13), Oakland, Atlanta and New York (12 each), Chicago (11), Dallas (10), Philadelphia (9), and Denver and Orlando (8 each).

A regional distributor can take a single metro such as Atlanta or Chicago and cover the whole market. A national packaging firm can send state by state, beginning with California. Rows without an email can be reached by phone, which matters in a trade where a call to the kitchen often gets a faster answer.

What is in the list

Source: ProfessionLens, November 2026. Counted 9 November 2026.

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