About Us- The “Catering Crate” Story

The “Catering Crate” was developed over time by John Hatcher, owner and co-founder of Café Pacific Catering. Café Pacific Catering has been serving the greater Puget Sound region (Seattle/Tacoma) since 1989.

After many years of “drop-off” corporate catering John was frustrated with the available options for transport and heat retention. He did not like the cheap look of wire chafing dishes, the damage to or loss of cambro containers and/or metal chafing dishes, the inconvenience and expense of return trips to pick up cambro containers and/or metal chafing dishes and the unattractiveness of virtually all transport/heat retention catering containers. And most importantly the cost of all the available options was too high.