Required Years of Experience
1 year
Job Details
Adelante Restaurant Group is looking for an organized, personable, and proactive Catering Coordinator to support catering sales, client communication, order coordination, and event execution across our restaurant and catering operations.
This position combines hospitality, organization, sales, and attention to detail. The right candidate communicates professionally, follows through consistently, and understands that every inquiry is an opportunity to build a lasting client relationship.
What You'll Do
- Respond to catering inquiries promptly and professionally
- Help clients select menus, quantities, and service options
- Prepare accurate catering orders, proposals, and estimates
- Follow up with prospective and existing clients
- Confirm event dates, times, locations, guest counts, and order details
- Coordinate dietary needs and special requests
- Communicate order details with restaurant and culinary teams
- Coordinate pickup, delivery, setup, and service requirements
- Review upcoming catering orders for accuracy and readiness
- Maintain organized client, order, and event information
- Help convert qualified inquiries into confirmed orders
- Identify appropriate opportunities to increase order value
- Build relationships with repeat clients
- Respond to changes and concerns professionally
- Support corporate, private, wedding, community, and special-event catering
What We're Looking For
- Highly organized and detail-oriented
- Professional and welcoming communicator
- Strong follow-through
- Comfortable managing multiple deadlines
- Confident discussing menus, pricing, and recommendations
- Attentive to order accuracy
- Proactive when something needs attention
- Calm and professional when plans change
- Comfortable working with clients and restaurant teams
- Interested in hospitality, sales, and relationship building
- Accountable for responsibilities and results
At least one year of relevant experience is preferred.
Experience may come from catering, restaurants, hotels, events, hospitality, sales, customer service, office administration, or another client-facing position. Previous catering experience is helpful but not required.
Strong performers may have opportunities to develop into Catering Manager or take on additional sales, event, and operational responsibilities.
Compensation Details
Compensation: Salary ($45,000.00 - $55,000.00)
Benefits & Perks: Health Insurance, Dining Discounts
Required Skills
Strong Interpersonal Skills
Ability to Multitask
Customer Service Orientation
Problem Solving Skills
Time Management Skills
Sales Acumen
Attention to Customer Needs
Team Collaboration
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Latin American, Mexican, New American
Restaurant Group
Moving hospitality forward.
Adelante Restaurant Group is an independent restaurant and hospitality group based in Kansas City, built around good food, thoughtful hospitality, strong operations, and the people who make restaurants work.
“Adelante” means moving forward or welcoming, and that idea guides how we approach our company. We believe progress comes from learning, improving, developing people, strengthening what works, and being willing to change what does not.
Our restaurants and hospitality businesses are shaped by distinct ideas and experiences, but they share the same foundation: quality, consistency, genuine hospitality, responsible growth, and respect for the people behind the work.
We are building a company where talented people can develop meaningful careers. Team members have opportunities to learn across operations, culinary, catering, marketing, administration, and leadership as the organization grows.
We look for people who are dependable, curious, organized, accountable, and willing to take initiative. Experience matters, but so do communication, judgment, follow-through, and the desire to keep improving.
We want leaders who develop people, team members who support one another, and professionals who care about both the details and the bigger picture.
Our goal is not simply to operate more restaurants. It is to build better ones, and to create an organization capable of growing without losing the qualities that made each business worth building in the first place.
Restaurants shaped by good food, thoughtful hospitality, and the communities around them.
Keep learning. Keep improving. Keep moving forward.
