Feeding an office along the Route 1 corridor

An office lunch has one hard constraint nobody mentions: it has to be eaten in the gap between two meetings, at a desk, without a knife. That decides the menu more than anyone's taste does.

What travels, and what does not

Gravies travel beautifully — butter chicken, tikka masala, Dal Makhni, paneer — because a chafing dish is close to the pot they came out of. Tandoor items are best eaten within the hour, so we bag the breads last and pack kebabs on the top. Anything fried is honest about its window: chaat and pakora are best on a live counter, not in a tray that has been closed for forty minutes.

For a desk lunch rather than a buffet, individual boxes beat trays. The $17.99 lunch box is a complete plate and stacks, which matters when the order is thirty of them and the lift is slow.

Sizing it without waste

Trays serve roughly 10–12, 20–25 and 30–35 guests. For a working lunch, plan one entrée tray per fifteen people plus rice and breads, and one vegetarian entrée for every meat one — vegetarian demand in this corridor is consistently higher than people budget for. The catering guide has the full arithmetic.

Tell us about the room as well as the headcount: whether there is a table to lay out, whether people will graze across an hour, and whether anyone needs Jain, vegan or no-onion-no-garlic. Those three requests are routine here and much easier to honour with a day's notice.

Where we deliver, and how far ahead

We cover the Route 1 and Exit 8A corridor — Princeton, Plainsboro, West Windsor, Monmouth Junction, Dayton, South Brunswick, Cranbury and the warehouse parks around 8A — plus the wider county. Forty-eight hours is comfortable for a large order; a same-week lunch is usually possible if you call.

Pricing is per tray from $85, itemised before you commit. See the catering page, or leave a number on it and we will call you back with a quote rather than a brochure.

Common questions