To build and maintain a business with a solid foundation. Provide quality jobs for honest people. Offer limitless customer service fueled by creative passion. Be a leader in the industry with cutting edge food, presentation and people.

Heidi’s Events and Catering offers Full Service Catering and Special event planning for Corporate, Weddings, Social Events, and a full line of Rental Equipment. Heidi’s Events and Catering has been making the good times easy since 1992. We Have been rated one of the top Twenty-Five caterers in the Valley by the Arizona Business Journal every year since 1999. Heidi attributes her success to a commitment to provide quality service, effortless event planning, creative menus, and incredible presentation. Most recently Heidi’s was voted Best Caterer at the Scottsdale Culinary festival.

We will gladly assist you with your event planning. We will go over all your options. All of our services and menus are kept current on our website: www.HeidisEvents.com. If there is something you want and do not see it there, we’ll be happy to create it for you. The sky is the limit! Special requests can almost always be accommodated.

Servers (minimum of one per twenty five guests), Floor Captains (minimum of one per one hundred guests), and Scullery Assistants (minimum of one per one hundred guests) are available at eighteen dollars ($18.50) per hour. Banquet captains (one per event), Scullery Captains (one per event), and Chefs (varies per event) are twenty-five dollars ($25.00) per hour. Bartenders are thirty dollars ($30.00) per hour. Heidi takes pride in her serving staff. They are very professional: Casual or formal attire, or in costume for an additional charge. Your team will do everything to make sure that your event is a success. They will build displays, set tables, put out guest favors and centerpieces, pass Hors D'Oeuvres, and beverages, keep things clean, tend to the needs of your guests, and open up your time to enjoy the affair! After the event, the staff will pack the leftovers, and tear down and clean everything. Staffing should be scheduled to arrive in ample time to have everything in place prior to the arrival of your guests. And allowed enough time to clean up at the end. Gratuity is not included and should be given directly to the Banquet Captain if you are happy with the service provided. Standard gratuity starts at 15% to 20% for good service. Corporate accounts will be pre-billed gratuity for staffed events if direct billing applies. HEC is a Drug free workplace. We drug test to maintain the integrity of our policy.

We accept company checks, Visa, MC and AMEX. Corporate accounts can be set up for regular corporate clients with terms as follows: Minimum guaranteed count is due ten days prior to event date. Final count may be increased but not reduced up to forty-eight hours prior to the event. Final payment is due thirty days from event date. A one and one half- percent (1-1/2%) finance charge will be applied to any events unpaid past thirty days. Cancellations within forty-eight hours of an event are subject to the full cost of the event. All services and equipment are subject to a fifteen percent (15%) operations fee and eight and one tenth percent (8.1%) sales tax. Gratuity will be added to all Staffed Corporate events prior to billing.

A one hundred-dollar deposit is required to hold the date. The deposit is nonrefundable if event is cancelled. Minimum guaranteed count and non-refundable payment is due ten days prior to event date. Final count may be increased but not reduced up to forty eight hours prior to the event. All services and equipment are subject to a fifteen percent (15%) operations fee and eight and one tenth percent (8.1%) sales tax. Gratuity is not included and should be given directly to your staff; if you are completely satisfied with the service.

Unlike most people who venture into the food business, Heidi's passion was not cooking. Her career began as a professional, and single mother of two Heidi has always been a self-motivated, determined, strong woman, with a drive for independence. She majored in marketing/merchandising at SCC, and ASU. Recruited from Plaza Three Academy by Diamond's (now Dillard's), Heidi worked the corporate ladder for seven years in the fashion industry. She left Dillard's to pursue a District Management position. After two more years in retail, Heidi felt it was time for a change. The next three years Heidi spent as "Cupid" directing one of the world's largest dating services. "Until now, that was the most fulfilling job I've ever had," says Heidi. Since 1992, Heidi has worked to build her catering business into the successful event planning/catering company it is today. In the beginning, she had her hand in everything. From jack hammering the floor to laying the pipes for the sinks, as well as the accounting, planning menus, cooking, loading trucks, building props, serving at events, Heidi did whatever it took. In 2004 when it came time to buy a new building, Heidi put on the general contractor hat and presided over the building of her new 11,000 square , when it came time to buy foot, state-of-the-art kitchen, show room and rental warehouse. Today, Heidi’s organization consists of a multifaceted, experienced team of professionals ranging from event planners and designers, and a talented culinary team to over 50 site chefs, food servers, scullery workers, banquet captains, floor captains, bartenders, rental set up crews and drivers. Today things haven’t changed much; Heidi still has her hands in everything. However, after assembling a great team, she can focus on the part she loves--planning events. Don’t be surprised if she answers the phone when you call or shows up at your event to check in.

A true Arizona native, Troy was born and raised in Mesa. He is one of three boys, and now a husband and father. After graduating from Mesa High School, Troy went to Mesa community College for two years before joining the U.S. Army. While in the Military as a Combat Medic, he served with the 4th Infantry Division. Troy earned the Expert Field Medical Badge a very accomplished honor, amongst other awards. Upon his return to Arizona in 1986 Troy joined the Price Club Corporation (now Costco). For 15 years he worked in various departments, working his way through the corporate structure and opening several new warehouses. In 2005 Troy transferred to Costco Home as their Customer Service Manager. Since 1995 Troy has worked on and off with Heidi’s Events and Catering. He was largely responsible for the development of the rental portion of the business. In 2002 when Heidi purchased the new building in Tempe, Troy took a very active roll in the construction and set up of the new warehouse and commissary. In 2005 Troy left his longtime career at Costco and joined Heidi’s full-time as the Director of Operations. Troy and his team maintain the building, the equipment, the vehicles, and the massive inventory. His team is in charge of all rental equipment and set up for events.

Drew was born in the small rural town of Dixon, IL. He left the Midwest to study Business at Arizona State University. While attending school, Drew took a job as a server at the formerly named Heidi’s Home Catering. He really loved working with Heidi, and by the end of his college career, he was a key player and responsible for hiring, scheduling and training servers as well as overseeing and coordinating events and operations. Drew graduated from ASU with a degree in Computer Information Systems in 2004, but his real passion was in event planning. He had experience in every aspect of events and catering, except sales. As Heidi’s business grew, her demand for a sales team developed and Drew joined the Heidi’s sales team in June 2005.

Karen is the owner of My Fantasy Florals located inside Heidi’s Events and Catering. Hailing from Minnesota, she has lived in Arizona since 1968 and has been a floral designer in the Valley for over 15 years. With a background in art, Karen dabbles in watercolor painting, has done children’s fashion design, is an accomplished writer, interior designer and a calligrapher. She has served as a community board member for the Tobacco Use Prevention Program which teaches children the dangers of smoking, has volunteered at the Child Crisis Center and is actively involved in politics. When not creating beautiful floral designs, she enjoys sports, reading and spending time with family and friends.

Carl Wendt is an award-winning Chef with 24 years of experience. Originally from Chicago, Carl came to Arizona and was the top Honor Student at Scottsdale Community College in Culinary Arts in 1993. He has worked 10 years for Hyatt Corporation in Chicago as a Sous Chef and Catering Chef. Returning to Arizona, Carl worked two years with Troon Golf as Executive Chef and has pursued his passion as an Executive Chef in the catering field at Heidi’s Events and Catering. Carl is drawn to the diversity and creativity that catering allows him. Carl has a strong family background and extends that to each and every guest and event. With Chef Carl's creative use of his skills and attention to detail, your event will delight the most discriminating guest.

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...started in 1991. As with so many companies, it was an idea long before that. The weekly home meal program was the first to thrive. One busy family led to another; then the first party, the first wedding, and so on. Today, HEIDI'S CATERING AND EVENTS is incorporated with over 11,000 square feet of kitchen, corporate offices, and the rental division in Tempe, Arizona.

Construction started with a state-of-the-art kitchen in October of 1995. Heidi physically did 80% of the work herself with help from family and friends. Since construction was not her area of expertise, it presented her with a challenge. "If you can read, you can learn to do anything, with a little help from Home Depot," Heidi says. "How-to-do-books" and a desire to know everything took a great part in the development of Heidi's success. The kitchen opened officially in April 1996 with a grand opening party: over 200 guests attended. In March 2001, Heidi's expanded by opening its corporate offices and Rental division. In 2004, Heidi purchased an 11,000 square foot building in Tempe and has over 50 employees. Heidi attributes her success to "hard work; as much as it takes, no debt; don't buy until you can afford it, and to have something to do it all for."

Heidi's Home catering is a member of the Ahwatukee, Tempe, and Chandler Chambers, the Better Business Bureau, the Better Wedding Bureau, as well as being an active member in the Women Owned Business Association, Minority Business Owners Association, Entrepreneurial Mothers' Association, and the Small Business Enterprise Association. Heidi also has the honor of being one of the top 100 women in business named by Arizona Woman's Magazine. Heidi's passion is the creative side. The event planning and coordinating side of the business. Heidi does the marketing and continues to oversee most aspects of the business.

Event planning for large scale corporate events, grand openings, breakfast and luncheon meetings, employee celebrations, holiday parties and box lunches. Social events to include house parties, bar/bah mitzvahs, church functions, birthdays, retirement, themed parties, and wedding services include receptions, anniversaries, showers, and bachelor parties. Heidi's also owns a complete division of rental equipment to fully service all your event needs. From tents, tables, chairs, linens, china, glassware, lighting, cooling, heating, floral, entertainment, frivolities, and more.