Catering Menus
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Seven sizes from 4.25" x 11" to 11" x 25.5", 100# Gloss or 70# Uncoated Text, flat, half fold or trifold, and 50 menus from $57.11 on a 5 business day standard turnaround.
- From $57.11 per 50 menus, with the per-menu price dropping as the run climbs all the way to 25,000.
- 7 sizes, from a tall 4.25" x 11" up to a full 11" x 25.5" spread, plus custom sizing up to 11" x 26".
- 2 papers: coated 100# Gloss Text when the menu carries plated photos, natural 70# Uncoated Text when guests or staff write on it.
- Flat, half fold or trifold, printed full color on the front only or on both sides, in a Standard finish or with a High Gloss UV Coating.
- 5 business day standard turnaround, with 2-day, Next-Day and Same-Day rush, rated 4.5 out of 5 across 25 reviews.
Print the Menu That Closes the Booking
When you're not standing at the table, the menu makes the pitch for you. It lays out your dishes, your packages, and your prices in a layout a client reads over coffee or carries home from a tasting. Print it coated for rich food photography or uncoated so a guest can jot notes, fold it or keep it flat, with runs of 50 from $57.11 and a 4.5 out of 5 rating across 25 reviews.
These menus earn their keep at every booking. They cost pennies each at volume, they carry a full pricing tier a screen would bury, and the paper in a client's hand does half the selling for you. Want to see how catering menus sit next to the rest of the lineup? Browse every style on menus printing, or stay here and build yours from the choices below.
The price rewards a bigger run. A set of 50 starts at $57.11, and the per-menu cost keeps sliding as the count climbs, so printing for a full season of events costs far less per menu than a single tasting batch. Tap any tier below to see the live total and exactly how much each step up saves before you commit.
What Are Catering Menus
Catering menus are printed menus a caterer or event company hands to clients, printed full color in 7 sizes from 4.25" x 11" up to 11" x 25.5", on coated 100# Gloss Text or writeable 70# Uncoated Text. People reach for them at tastings, package pitches, buffets, and drop-off orders, anywhere a guest needs the dishes and pricing right in front of them. Because the sheet is bigger than a card and folds, one menu can carry the whole offer. If you run a sit-down room instead of events, the Restaurant Menus cover that format, and the catering version sits right beside it for off-site work.
For catering print, these are the options you set on this product before you upload:
- Size: 7 sizes from 4.25" x 11" to 11" x 25.5", or custom up to 11" x 26".
- Paper: 100# Gloss Text or 70# Uncoated Text.
- Ink and finish: Full color front only or both sides, Standard or High Gloss UV Coating.
- Fold: Flat, half fold or trifold, with optional perforation for a tear-off slip.
- Quantity: 50 for $57.11, 500 for $155.97, 1,000 for $180.13, up to 25,000.
- Turnaround: 5 business days standard, with 2-day, Next-Day and Same-Day rush.
- Your file: Artwork on the blank catering menu template at trim size, or a layout from the menu design templates.
Event Menus for Weddings, Banquets and Corporate Dinners
An event menu is the same print job as a catering menu doing a different job. It sits on the table while people eat rather than selling the booking, so the format follows the service style: one card per seat when plates come out of the kitchen, a standing menu when guests serve themselves.
Wedding receptions
A single flat card per place setting is the format that photographs best, and the tall 4.25" x 11" size fits on a charger without crowding the glassware. Count one card per seat, then add spares for the head table, the vendors' table and the couple's album. Runs start at 50 and the per-menu price keeps dropping as the run climbs, so ordering the next tier above your head count usually costs less per card than trimming to the exact number.
Banquets and plated dinners
For a long banquet table, a half fold menu stands on its own between two settings and serves both sides, which halves the count against one card per seat. Print the courses on the outside faces so nothing has to be picked up and opened mid service.
Buffet and station cards
Buffet menus get handled, splashed and moved. Print them flat on the coated 100# Gloss Text with the High Gloss UV Coating so a spill wipes off, and run one card per station plus a full menu at the head of the line. A wider size in the range up to 11" x 25.5" reads from a step back, which keeps the queue moving.
Corporate dinners and tasting menus
Tastings and corporate dinners want the natural 70# Uncoated Text, because guests write on it: a note against a wine, a score against a course, a dietary flag handed back to the captain. Print the courses down one face and leave the facing panel clear for those notes.
What Size Should a Catering Menu Be
The right size comes down to how much you need to lay out. A 4.25" x 11" menu is the tall, narrow sheet that stands at a place setting or slides into a folder. A 5.5" x 8.5" or 8.5" x 11" gives a package menu room for photos and pricing tiers. An 8.5" x 14" or a full 11" x 25.5" reads like a shared spread a whole table can browse. All 7 sizes, both papers, both finishes and the fold options are grouped below exactly the way the live configurator presents them, so you know what you can change before you change it. Prefer a wipe-clean sheet for a buffet line? The Laminated Menus add a sealed finish, and the everyday Menus are the plain pick.
Here are a few easy ways to make a catering menu pull its weight.
Which paper suits the room
Two stocks cover every setting here, and they behave differently under the light in the room. The coated 100# Gloss Text holds food photography without the color going flat, so use it for any menu carrying plated shots, package images or a hero dish. The natural 70# Uncoated Text has no shine under candlelight or a chandelier, which is why formal dinners and tasting menus land on it, and it takes pen and pencil for guest notes and course marks.
For a menu that gets handled all night at a buffet or a station, put the High Gloss UV Coating on the gloss stock. That is the surface that survives wet hands, serving-spoon drips and a hundred pickups, where an uncoated card would soften at the corners by the second seating.
Pick a paper that fits the room
A coated 100# Gloss Text gives food photography a rich, saturated look, the right call for a client-facing package menu. The 70# Uncoated Text is natural and matte, so a guest can write a note or an order on it. A High Gloss UV Coating makes a cover photo snap and shrugs off a kitchen splash, while the Standard finish keeps it clean and cheap. Fold the sheet half for two panels or trifold for six, and a single menu splits appetizers, mains, and packages cleanly.
Design it without a designer
Start from a layout in our menu design templates and put in your own dishes, package tiers and prices in the online editor. On a trifold, give each panel one job, starters, mains or packages, and use one strong food photo on the cover rather than a small photo beside every dish.
Already have your artwork? Skip the editor and download a press-ready blank instead. Each blank catering menu template is built at the real trim size with the bleed and safe margin already drawn in, so your layout never crowds the cut. Grab the size that matches your order below, drop your art in, and upload.
Press-Ready Blank Templates
How Much Do Catering Menus Cost
Catering menus start at $57.11 for 50, and the per-menu price keeps dropping as the quantity climbs toward 25,000, so a cheap catering menu really comes down to how big a run you order. Most caterers land on 500 for $155.97 or 1,000 for $180.13 to cover a season of events. Drag the slider below to your count and read the run total and the per-menu cost side by side.
Wally sets the table with your menu
Why a $57.11 stack of catering menus wins the booking.
Fifty catering menus start at $57.11, printed full color on real menu paper your clients can hold. Fold them trifold, add a High Gloss UV coat, or keep them flat and writeable. Pick a size, set your speed, and Wally gets them printed fast.
Can You Fold or Perforate a Catering Menu
Yes. Order any size flat, as a half fold with two panels, or as a trifold whose six panels keep courses and packages apart. You can also add perforation, so a tear-off order slip or RSVP lives right on the sheet and a client can hand part of it back. Pair a fold with full color on both sides and a finish that fits the room, and one printed menu does the work of a folder full of loose pages.
Which fold suits which table
Three formats ship on this product: flat, half fold and trifold. Each one belongs somewhere different.
- Flat: the place setting card. Nothing to open, nothing to prop, and it lies on the charger or slides under the napkin. This is the wedding and plated dinner default.
- Half fold: a menu that stands by itself. Set it upright between two covers on a banquet table or on a station and it reads from both sides without a holder.
- Trifold: the working menu for buffets and takeaway. It stands on a table on its own panels, and folded down to a third of the flat sheet it drops into a takeaway bag, a catering folder or a client's jacket pocket after a tasting.
If your event needs a different fold, the wider menu printing range covers the other formats.
How Do Catering Menus Compare to the Rest of the Range
Catering menus are the pick when you print for events and drop-offs, but they are not your only move. If you are weighing a wipe-clean laminated sheet, a sit-down restaurant menu, or a plain standard menu, it helps to see the trade-off in plain numbers. The chart below lines up catering menus against their closest siblings so you can compare the starting price on each before you choose.
See How a Finished Catering Menu Lands
The gallery below shows menus our customers printed in-house across different sizes, papers and finishes. Compare a gloss package menu with an uncoated tasting card before you choose your paper. Tap any print to see it larger.
Real Menus Our Customers Printed
How Fast Can You Get Catering Menus
Catering menus print on a 5 business day standard turnaround, and when a tasting or a booking moves up you can shift that to 2-day, Next-Day or even Same-Day production. Each step buys back time for a set percentage on top of the base price, so you only pay for speed when you actually need it. Same Day orders need to be approved by the daily cutoff to ship that day, and across 4OVER4, 99.8% of orders arrive on time with 82% shipping early. Compare every turnaround tier below and see exactly what the rush adds before you pick.
See the Rest of Our Menus
Catering menus are one stop in a much larger lineup, and you can scan the full print product range any time. If a laminated sheet, a restaurant menu or a plain standard menu would serve a job better, the rest of the family is one tap away. Each option shows its own starting price and links straight to its product page, so finding the right fit takes seconds.
More From Menus - Fast Turnaround
Printing for a reception rather than a client pitch? The wedding menus page runs the same stocks in the sizes built for a place setting. For buffet and station cards that get wiped down between services, laminated menus take the handling that a coated text stock eventually loses. The full menu printing range sits behind both, with the take-out, dine-in and tri-fold formats alongside these.
Print Your Catering Menus Today
At 4OVER4.COM, quality comes first, and it's backed by five guarantees and over 25 years of printing since 1999. Whatever size, paper or finish you pick, these catering menus are built to look right in a client's hands and make your food the easy yes. Need them before a tasting or an event? Our Same-Day production keeps you covered. Print your catering menus today.
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