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Catering

Alternative Catering Vendors

View individual vendor profiles for additional information:

Purchasing and Strategic Sourcing encourages departments and schools to use Northwestern Dining, the official campus caterer. Catering provided by Northwestern Dining is charged directly to chart string provided to either Student Affairs (Evanston) or Procurement (Chicago).

Purchasing and Strategic Sourcing has also established contracts with six additional off-campus caterers. You can view the Catering Comparison Chart to select from these caterers.

These six contracted caterers have signed a specified Northwestern Event Rider as part of the Master Agreement. Departments and Schools will not need to obtain the Rider if using the contracted caterers.

Using External Caterers

Schools and departments that do not use on the caterers listed here must create a Northwestern Catering Rider.

  • A Catering Agreement is required for each banquet, reception, private function, or other formal catering event.
  • All catering vendors should sign the Catering Agreement and generate a of Certificate of Liability Insurance for the date of the event.
  • Department or schools need to provide the Office of Risk Management with the insurance certificate prior to the event date.
  • All non-preferred caterers should sign the Northwestern Catering Rider and gain a Certificate of Liability with Northwestern as "additionally insured."
  • A quote needs to be generated and a Purchase Order should be created to pay the invoice against, or the invoice must to be submitted for through the Payment Request process.