Same-day catering requests don't have to be turned away. See how Houston restaurants handle last-minute orders without missing delivery windows.
The call comes in at 9 AM: a Houston office needs lunch for 30 people by noon, no advance notice, no standing account. For a lot of restaurants, the instinct is to say no — same-day catering feels too risky to fit into an already-planned prep schedule. But same-day and last-minute catering requests are one of the most common ways Houston offices actually book catering, and restaurants that can reliably say yes capture business that fully-booked competitors turn away.