The industry's best education

Catersource education includes the latest and most pertinent issues facing our industry. Learn how to keep your business ahead of the curve and ahead of the competition! Find out how to reduce food costs, save labor, manage effective sales efforts, employ grass roots marketing and so much more!

Walk away away with the latest winning strategies, invaluable tools, new ideas, latest trends and proven techniques for on-premise and off-premise caterers, hotels, colleges, universities, hospitals, restaurants that cater, multi-national foodservice companies and anyone who offers catering to their clients!

Click the dates below and see what these four days of education have to offer!

PLUS:

Xperience Stages
In addition to regular sessions, you'll also have access to the Xperience Stage sessions, fun, fast-paced presentations on small intimate stages.

Event Solutions
Our co-location with Event Solutions Idea Factory gives you access to dozens of event related sessions.

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Special Interest Tracks
Browse the Catersource education program by specific topic of interest. We've broken down the sessions into suggest tracks if your focus is culinary, sales and marketing, business and more.

New this year: Class Level Designations

Class Level Designations are designed to help you make appropriate class choices based on the content being presented. Regardless of the class level, please feel free to attend any class that interests you or that you feel would be appropriate for your company. There are gems of wisdom and sparks of new ideas in every class that can be applied to all levels of catering!

Level 1
Education presented in these sessions is most appropriate for those who have been in the business for less than three years, for those who would like to learn good business and catering fundamentals, and for those whose companies exist in smaller markets with budget-minded price points.

Level 2
Education presented in these sessions is most appropriate for those who have been in business for three to five years, for those whose companies are still growing and are looking for continued expansion, and for those who have more than five employees and exist in a medium or large market with medium and high price points.

Level 3
Education presented in these sessions is most appropriate for those from well-established companies who are or want to become market leaders in their communities, for those who have or want more than one division or profit center, and for those who have more than 10 employees and exist in medium to large or regional markets with the opportunity to serve value, medium and high price points.

Speakers and schedule are subject to change.