SPECIALTY COFFEE CATERING

Coffee catering is an industry where companies are plentiful, so it’s easy to find someone catering coffee. The problem with coffee caterers and mobile espresso bars is that most of them dont know what they are doing. They do what most coffee shop owners do, and that is that they get into the industry because they think that it’ll be easy and that all they need to do is get machines and coffee beans, while the rest will handle itself. This is why there are so many bad coffee shops and bad coffee caterers. Rugged Coffee is different though, we have started a coffee catering company because we have catered before and know how to do it so that we are efficient and so that every coffee we serve tastes the amazing.

Specialty Coffee is an industry that is tricky to be involved in, and easy to mess up. The science of coffee is tricky and the variables to keep in mind are plentiful. Things you have to keep in mind are grind size (whether the grind is too coarse or too fine), the water (how much or little water to use or what minerals are in the water), and the brew time (brewing too long will yield bitter tastes and brewing too fast can result in sour and light tasting coffee). Brewing coffee perfectly is hard to do but once you’ve mastered it, then it comes as second nature, but now add another variable into the mix, serving events, and things get complicated again. Treating catering like a coffee shop will result in service that takes far too long, but serving fast without standards will get you back to where we started where the coffee will taste terrible. That is why creating efficient serving standards while keeping coffee quality high is the goal of any coffee caterer. At Rugged Coffee, through the 8 years that we have been in business, we have created many standards to serve fast and coffee quality high.

Try our services out today to find for yourself how we are able to serve your guests fantastic coffee efficiently using our local mobile coffee bar.

INLAND EMPIRE CATERING

Rugged Coffee is a specialty coffee caterer out of the Inland Empire, but travels all over Southern California, from Los Angeles to San Diego and everywhere in between. One place that we especially love is the Inland Empire, where freedom reigns and venues are plentiful. One of those venues is the Ontario Convention Center. Catering coffee at the Ontario Convention Center is such a special place because you get to meet and serve thousands of people all at the same event. A way for you to increase traffic to your booth is by providing coffee at your booth, but not just any coffee, the best coffee a caterer can offer. Instead of the unimpressive bland coffee that most coffee caterers offer, why dont you bring something truly exceptional that will turn your booth into the hub of the event and hire us to cater the best coffee at the Ontario Convention Center.

Another venue that we really love going to is the Riverside Convention Center. This convention center has it all, from smaller rooms for weddings to larger areas for large conventions. We are local to the Riverside Convention Center so bring a coffee caterer there that is familiar with serving massive crowds with our excellent coffee and espresso bar. Since we are very experienced with conventions, we offer a maleable catering experience. We can bring our coffee cart to serve off of in your booth, we can custom brand our coffee cart or we are able to serve off of a counter that you have built out that completes your aesthetic.

Specialty Coffee Catering for Conferences and Conventions is what we really love doing and offering catering in the Inland Empire is even better. Reach out today to see how special and unique we can help to make your next convention the best ever.

DESSERT, PASTRY, & ICE CREAM CATERING

Having top quality desserts after dinner at your wedding or event is a must, which is why we have worked continuously to create a top tiered ice cream that we can be proud to serve at the events that we serve at with our mobile ice cream cart. We have also teamed up with an amazing pastry chef to bring you the most delicious pastries. Gooey Cinnamon Rolls, Decadent Danishes, Flakey Croissants, and more; what more could you ask for in a caterer.

Our ice cream is made-from-scratch so you know that there are no artificial ingredients and since we pride ourselves in the quality of ingredients that we serve in all aspects of our catering, you can rest assured that we make our ice cream with only top tier quality ingredients as well. You get to choose from our list of ice cream flavors for us to freshly make for your wedding, from flavors like our Vanilla, Chocolate, Cookies & Cream, Chocolate Cookies & Cream, Caramel to our more unique flavors of our Lavender and Matcha. Do you want an ice cream flavor that you don’t see? Request it in your initial inquiry and we will try to create that ice cream flavor just for you. When pairing our ice cream bar and our espresso bar together the menu your guests get to choose from dramatically opens up creating options like the Affogato, Mocha Float, Cold Brew Float, Latte Float, any Signature Flavor Latte Float, and anything else that your guests can think of that isn’t already listed.

For our Artisan Mobile Pastry option upgrade we have partnered with one of the best pastry chefs that we have come across ever and because of that, we are able to bring their quality pastries directly to your event so that you can pair that with our decadent coffee beverages. Reach out today to see how our Espresso Catering along with mobile pastries or mobile ice cream bar can make your event truly one to be envied by everyone there.

ICE CREAM AND COFFEE CATERING

What other company offers you the ability to have delicious coffee and ice cream at your wedding that you cant find anywhere else? Since we are a catering company, you wont be able to have our coffee anywhere other than at your event which makes your wedding extremely unique. Most ice cream stores or caterers purchase ice cream from another company that makes it, but we make our ice cream ourselves from scratch, so we know the exact ingredients and make it with the best quality you can find. We offer you the choice of 3 ice cream flavors from our list. Our mobile ice cream cart list includes Chocolate, Vanilla, Cookie & Cream, Lavender Honey, Chocolate Cookies & Cream, Caramel, and Matcha.

When you order our Ice Cream bar upgrade, it comes alongside our Espresso Bar catering which opens the list to a multitude of items that you and your guests can get from us. Our Espresso Bar catering comes with the standard drinks, offered both hot or iced, like the Mocha, Latte, Cappuccino, Macchiato, Americano, Hot French Press Brewed Coffee, Cold Brewed Coffee with our special signature flavors where you get to choose 3 to be on your menu from our extensive list that you can find on the homepage of our website. Pair that mobile coffee bar with our mobile ice cream bar and you get additional items like the Affogato, Mocha Float, Cold Brew Float, Latte Float, and any signature flavor latte float. Some Signature Flavors that we are able to make for your wedding or event that we could add to a float would be the Chestnut Praline, the Samoa, Blueberry Mocha, Pumpkin Pie, Apple Pie, Churro, Hazelnut Praline, Eggnog, and much more.

Not only do you have the ability to add ice cream and coffee together to make floats, but even if you dont want to have coffee but still want to try the signature flavors, then you can always get a Signature flavor milk float or just add some syrup to the top of the ice cream. Anyway you get ice cream is the right way so request that with us in your next inquiry to see what sort of ice cream fun we can make for your wedding or event!

COFFEE AND PASTRY CATERING

There are so many people that ask us for pastries to be accompanied with our coffee and espresso catering that we searched all around and found a pastry provider that serves the quality of pastries that we are proud to offer with our exceptional mobile coffee and espresso bar. With our Pastry option, your guests will get the options from a gooey and out-of-this-world cinnamon roll, Cheese Danish, Berry Danish, Delicious Scones, Galettes, Plain Croissants, Chocolate Croissants, & Soft Blueberry Muffins.

What is better than a mobile coffee and pastry cart with quality that will blow your socks off? We have been in that coffee catering industry for over 10 years and in the specialty coffee industry for over 15 years as the owner of Rugged Coffee has started his career in coffee at the age of 18 and is still in it at his age of 35. Throughout those years he has been a Barista, a Lead Barista, a cafe manager, a Coffee Educator, and is now the owner of a prestigious coffee catering company of Rugged Coffee. He has competed in the Brewer’s Cup competition through the Specialty Coffee Association in 2018 where he went from the Preliminaries in Southern California, to the Qualifiers in Kansas City, and to the Nationals in Nashville where he placed 17th out of 26 competitors. He has now used his skills and knowledge to create the greatest coffee catering company in Southern California and beyond.

People have asked for great tasting pastries to be offered with our excellent coffee so we stepped up to that challenge. Now people have requested that we serve a Hazelnut Latte, so we created that flavor and call it our Hazelnut Praline. What better drink to pair with a pastry is there other than a Hazelnut Praline Latte? Request the Hazelnut Praline to be on your menu when you inquire about our coffee and espresso catering with our pastry service!

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA WEDDINGS

Weddings in Southern California are the most magical. You’ve got the beautiful beach and the mountains, all within a few hours of each other. From the west coast venues with Huntington Beach, Newport Beach, Laguna Beach, San Clemente, Dana Point, Oceanside, Carlsbad, La Jolla, San Diego to the mountains with Big Bear, Mountain High, and everywhere in between. With all of that, the choices are vast.

A few of our favorite venues are the Terranea in Rancho Palos Verdes, Venue by 3 Petals, The Pelican Courtyard, The Red Horse Barn, Crystal Court Community, Seven 7 Seven in Laguna Beach, Laguna Village Arts and Flowers, Aliso Viejo by Wedgewood Weddings, Franciscan Gardens San Juan Capistrano, Marbella Country Club, The Casino San Clemente, La Ventura Event Center, Bellagala Events in Oceanside, La Jolla’s Women’s Club, The Loft at UCSD, San Diego Convention Center, Mission Beach Women’s Club, Thr Point in San Diego, The Marriott, and much more. The venues we enjoy in the mountains are Big Bear Lake Convention Center, Knickerbocker Mansion, Big Bear Lake Christian Camp & Conference Center, Miller’s Landing, and more.

Providing Specialty Coffee at your wedding is what can help keep your guests awake and alert while the festivities are going. Coffee is especially needed when you have guests flying in from out of town or venues that takes a long drive to get to or festivities that go late into the night. No matter the reason, coffee is a good choice. We have heard so many great compliments from wedding guests about providing specialty coffee at the wedding they were at and that it helped keep them awake through the night.

Not only are we a great option for you to keep your guests up and alert throughout the night, but we also are able to provide a Made-From-Scratch Ice Cream and Affogato service along with our coffee service, which means that we have got it all to make your wedding complete. Email us today to see how we can help to make your wedding a wedding to remember forever.

SAN DIEGO CONVENTION CENTER

Rugged Coffee is an expert at catering massive crowds. We keep our quality top notch while serving thousands of guests the most delicious coffee they’ve ever had. We have many years of experience serving at the San Diego Convention Center while serving our delicious coffee to an audience of 10,000+ guests for the Hitachi Energy center booth. We have served for large companies like Oakley Corp., Fox Racing Corp., Lincoln, Levi Strauss, Taylormade Golf, Standard Chartered, and we consistently serve backstage at the Honda Center, and the House of Blues Anaheim, as well as, The Terranea Resort. So you can see that we are trusted by some of the most well know companies and brands.

At the Distributech International convention at the San Diego Convention Center, we had a coffee cart set up at the Hitchi Energy booth (which was the main center attraction booth) and we were also set up at the ABB booth serving delicious coffee to the masses out of 2 separate locations of these sister companies. We not only serve amazing coffee, but we also serve amazing flavored lattes, like our Churro Latte, or Chestnut Praline Latte, and even our Reese’s Mocha, plus many more. Because we were at the main booths of the convention, we were busy nonstop all day.

Another convention that we served at was the AFP convention where all of the top banks were at showcasing their companies. At this convention, we were in the Standard Chartered Bank booth which is a massive bank that has locations worldwide. At this convention we weren’t at the center main booth, but after just a little bit of time there, we were serving the guests like we were the main booth because once people find out about how delicious our coffee is, guests will flock to us no matter what.

Catering at Conferences and Conventions in Southern California and Las Vegas Nevada is what we do best, so if you want an excellent coffee provider to come serve your guests joyfully and quickly with the best drinks they’ve ever had while showcasing your brand, then look no further because you found the best.

COFFEE IN EASTVALE

Rugged Coffee is a catering company that is based in Eastvale, CA. We cater all over the Southern California area but love the city that we live in which is why we want to open a cafe or coffee shop in Eastvale, CA someday. Eastvale is a new city started in the earlier 2000’s and is now a thriving city with some of the best restaurants and shops. Eastvale is also building a new center that they are calling Downtown Eastvale, and we would love it and be so appreciative if you would tell the city council of Eastvale that you want Rugged Coffee to be in that location.

Eastvale is part of the Inland Empire, or Riverside County, and we travel all over the Inland Empire and the greater Southern California area. Some of the best events that we serve at are the busiest, like conventions, conferences, or large weddings. Convention Center’s like the Riverside Convention Center, the Big Bear Lake Convention Center, the Pasadena Convention Center, the Anaheim Convention Center, and our favorite the San Diego Convention Center are all great spots to have these larger gatherings. At each of these conventions there are a large number of guests that attend, anywhere from 5,000 guests to 25,000 guests, and we serve coffee at them all. If you want the best coffee catering and mobile espresso bar at your convention or booth, then you have found the best. No matter where we are located in the convention, guests quickly get word about the quality of coffee that we are serving so we then become the busiest coffee station there which will make your booth the busiest booth and driving more potential customers for you.

When you work with the best, then expect the best results, which is what we will give you in Eastvale, CA and beyond. Reach out today to see what we can do for your event.

QUALITY COFFEE CATERING

Finding the right coffee company to cater your event, wedding, conference, or convention can be a bit daunting, not knowing the quality or experience a company has to offer. This is why we post the brand of coffee roaster’s that we work with so you know that we only offer the best. We also has been operating as a catering company for 8 years now and the owner of our company has been in the Specialty Coffee Industry for over 18 years. During those 18 years, he has been a Barista, Shift Lead, Quality Control, and manager at Portola Coffee in Costa Mesa, California, he has also helped open other Specialty Coffee shops in Orange County California. After his coffee shop days, he worked as a coffee educator for a Specialty Coffee Corporate Company where he traveled the nation teaching Michelin Star Chef’s, Restaurants, and resorts how to make excellent coffee, so you can say that he knows a thing or two about coffee science and on how to make coffee taste delicious. Not only did he do all of that for his career, but he also placed 17th in the nation in the 2018 National Brewer’s Cup championship for the Specialty Coffee Association (SCA).

Coffee Catering in Southern California is what we do best. We offer Coffee Catering in San Diego, Coffee Catering in Orange County, Coffee Catering in Riverside County, Coffee Catering in the Inland Empire, and Coffee Catering in parts of Los Angeles. Because we travel so much, and visit so many different venues, we know what to look for and what to prepare for when the unexpected happen and you can only do that through experience. We bring our own extension cords, gaffing tape, menus, and we even like to talk with the Coordinator beforehand to ensure that everything that we need is provided for so there are no interruptions in our service.

With our services and our experience, we offer unparalleled quality and top of the line Professionalism with each catering service that we provide. Reach out today and find out what we can do to help make your event the most special and unique it can be.

ICE CREAM CATERING

Rugged Coffee is a specialty coffee catering company, but we don’t just stop at specialty coffee. We also provide specialty ice cream catering and ice cream coffee mixes. The ice cream that we provide is made from scratch with no artificial ingredients and they are even made with our Signature Flavored syrups. Our ice creams on our ice cream cart come in several different flavor options, such as, Vanilla, Chocolate, Cookies and Cream, Lavender Honey, Chocolate Cookies and Cream, Matcha, and Caramel.

Our ice cream can be combined with any coffee drink to create a float. You can try a Mocha Float, Matcha Float, Chai Latte Float, Vanilla Latte Float, Caramel Latte Float, or the fan favorite the Affogato. Not only can you combine coffee drinks with ice cream, but you can also just add your favorite flavored syrup onto the ice cream to give it that extra delicious flavor. Flavors like Samoa, Big Red, Vanilla, Caramel, Chocolate, Gingerbread, Lavender Honey, Maple Spice, Cinnamint, and the list goes on.

Consolidating your caterers is not only cost effective, but it also makes your planning easier. We offer you customizable options and quality with the ease of planning because you will only need to allocate 1 area for our serving space, instead of 2 different spaces, and you will only need to worry about 1 vendors electricity requirements, instead of 2. Because this is an upgrade, we offer this quality service for a lower price than most other ice cream caterers and, at the same time, this upgrade gives your guests access to a much larger menu than any other ice cream caterer. Ice cream and coffee, sounds like a match made in heaven to us. Inquire today to find out how we can best serve your event or check out our “Packages” page on our website to see more info.

SOCAL SPECIALTY COFFEE

Specialty Coffee in Southern California is an industry that is booming and so no wonder why people want that Specialty Coffee at their event or wedding, but the Specialty Coffee industry was not always booming out here, though. There was the intro to it back in 2011 with Portola Coffee who were all about the quality of the coffee and not so much care for the customer service or experience, then after a few more specialty coffee shops opened, the turn to customer service was starting to be top priority again. Now most specialty coffee shops only care about that and not so much about creating a great coffee beverage or coffee experience anymore. We believe that you don’t have to have a tradeoff of the two, that those two aspects of coffee can work harmoniously together and we showcase that at each event that we serve at. We cater small events to catering very large events, there is no event size too big or small for us.

Being a Southern California catering company has its benefits, such as, the weather is usually pretty great so indoor or outdoor events are pretty much always available to happen, but because of that, the competition is fierce. That is why we make sure that we are on the top of our game and that we are providing the best quality and service in the industry. We provide Specialty Espresso and Coffee Catering all over the Southern California area, from Los Angeles to Orange County to the Inland Empire (or Riverside County) to San Diego County and we even travel to Las Vegas for our catering. Basically anywhere you need coffee in Southern California, we can bring that coffee catering to your event or conference or convention and even weddings. Reach out today and see how we can elevate your event by providing the best coffee and the best service around.

CATERING IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

Finding the right caterer in Southern California can be tricky at times because there are so many different companies out there and they all tell you that they are the best, but how can you really be sure based on their website? Well, we offer free tastings for our coffee so you can get a real sense of how good our products actually are. Tasting a caterers drinks or food really does make the difference because that can give you the assurance that you are choosing the right company with the right product to make your corporate event catering, wedding catering, conference catering, or convention catering the best possible.

Our coffee and espresso catering in southern california is unbeatable in taste and customer experience. We have over 15 years of experience in the Specialty Coffee industry and over 10 years in the coffee catering industry which can give you the peace of mind knowing that not only do we know how to make and serve great coffee, but we also know how to serve it in a catering setting (which is much different than a coffee shop setting). You might be a great coffee shop, but not know the difference between catering and your normal day to day setting, so you will probably spend too much time only worrying about the coffee and not the customers (which we know is how all too many coffee shops are now these days), or you may be looking at a company that is a coffee caterer, but never spent time learning the science of coffee because most coffee company owners think that coffee is as easy as pushing a button leaving you with disgusting and burnt or watery coffee. We are masters of both realms of customer experience and excellent coffee.

Choosing us, you can rest assured knowing that all of your event or wedding guests will get served the most delicious coffee they have ever had at a speedy rate while leaving our bar feeling satisfied and happy because we love having quick meaningful chats while serving and giving out free coffee advice.