CORPORATE — YEAR-END
Year-End Function Catering — Ke Dezemba, Sorted
Mid-November to Christmas is one long booking window. Peak Fridays commit first — here's how to get your team's date locked.
Year-end function catering across Cape Town for teams of 20 to 150 and beyond — plated dinners, canapé parties and spit braais, at your office, a villa, an estate or a beach-legal venue. All-in quotes with staff, rentals and travel itemised before you book. from R395–695 pp per person · Min spend R10,000.
The short answer
Year-end function catering across Cape Town for teams of 20 to 150 and beyond — plated dinners, canapé parties and spit braais, at your office, a villa, an estate or a beach-legal venue. All-in quotes with staff, rentals and travel itemised before you book.
Ke Dezemba is real: from mid-November the city's catering calendar compresses into about five Fridays. The earlier you lock yours, the more choice you have on menu, format and venue.
The booking window, honestly
Book by October if you want a Friday. By early November, peak Fridays are usually committed and the conversation shifts to Thursdays, Saturdays and daytime formats. By December, you're asking what's left — sometimes something is, and we'll tell you straight.
A useful trick: December daytime functions — long lunches, braai afternoons — are easier to staff, cheaper on rentals, and often better attended than evening events. Ask your coordinator to price both.
Packages by headcount
Twenty to fifty guests: plated or family-style in the office or a private room. Fifty to a hundred and fifty: canapé receptions or a premium spit braai with plated sides. Beyond that: volume formats with a site visit and a run-sheet.
Every package line renders from the same rate card as our pricing page — per-person bands, staffing and rentals itemised. Prices include VAT where stated; festive multipliers for public holidays are published, and dates in the super-peak window carry a stricter ladder.
| Service | From |
|---|---|
| Corporate cateringMin spend R10,000 · All-in quote — staff, rentals, travel itemised | fromR395–695per person |
| Spit braai events (20–49 guests) | fromR450per person |
| Spit braai events (100+ guests) | fromR320per person |
| Canapés receptionMin 20 guests | fromR395per person |
Verified October 2026 · Festive 1.5×–2× · Prices include VAT where stated.
Any venue that makes sense
Year-end functions don't need a function venue. Four formats we cater every December:
- 01The Office Takeover: your own boardroom and balcony, styled and staffed — zero venue hire, zero transport logistics.
- 02The Villa Party: a Seaboard or Constantia villa for the afternoon — pool deck, braai, long table.
- 03The Estate Lunch: a Winelands estate with published Zone 2–3 travel, vines and a slow afternoon.
- 04The Beach-Legal Braai: where permits allow, a sunset spit braai near the sand — we advise on what's actually permitted.
Entertainment and coordination
We cater; we don't pretend to be an events agency. But December is smoother when one coordinator holds the run-sheet.
Included
- service run-sheet, timeline coordination with your DJ, musician or MC, setup and strike
- bar staff at published hourly rates — you supply the drinks, we keep them cold and poured
Quoted separately
- rentals, marquee or stretch-tent cover, Zone 2–3 travel, festive multipliers
- venue hire, entertainment booking fees and liquor licensing — we'll tell you when a licence question applies
Why teams rebook the same team
A year-end function is the one corporate event everyone actually remembers. Our job is to make the food the easy part: one brief, one itemised quote, one coordinator on the day, and a replacement guarantee on every staff member booked.
Set up a recurring account and next year's date gets flagged in our calendar before the season rush — standing brief, monthly invoice, no re-onboarding.
Planning around Cape weather
December in Cape Town means long, dry evenings — and the odd southeaster that arrives uninvited. Outdoor formats carry a wet-and-windy plan as standard: stretch-tent or indoor fallback agreed in advance, braai stations positioned on the sheltered side, and a decision deadline written into your run-sheet.
Your coordinator watches the forecast in the final week and makes the call with you, not for you. The goal is simple: the weather is a footnote to the party, never the story.
Deposit & terms, up front.
50% deposit locks the date
Balance due 10 days before
Cancellation tiers published
Festive super-peak (26 December – 7 January): stricter ladder — published in writing before you book.
In writing, not in vibes — read the full booking protection terms.
Proof, as it's earned
Client names publish here with written permission as accounts deliver. Until then, our references are available on request.
Questions, answered.
More corporate formats
Tell us the date, the guests and the place.
We handle everything else — menu, shopping, cooking, service, cleanup. Guaranteed.
Replacement-or-refund · Fixed itemised quote · Published cancellation tiers