Food Cart Hire for Events
Bring fresh food, friendly service and a little more interaction to your event with mobile food cart hire from Gathering Events.
Our food carts can cater for corporate events, conferences, brand activations, workplace functions, weddings and private celebrations, with food and service tailored to suit the occasion.
Gathering Events provides mobile food cart catering across Sydney and Brisbane, as well as Melbourne, with surrounding areas also covered by our local teams.
Mobile food cart catering for your event
A food cart gives guests somewhere to gather, choose something to eat and enjoy food served as part of the event rather than simply placed on a catering table.
Gathering Events can provide food carts for breakfast, lunch and event catering, with menus built around the style and timing of your event.
Options can include fresh hot and cold food, gourmet sandwiches, burgers, salads, pastries, breakfast favourites and lighter choices, with vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free requirements able to be considered when planning your menu.
Whether you are feeding an office team, conference guests or people attending a private celebration, we can help create a food cart experience that fits naturally into your event.
What can a food cart serve?
The menu depends on the type of event and the experience you want to create.
Breakfast food carts
Start the day with food served directly from a mobile cart. Breakfast options can include bacon and egg rolls, pastries, wholesome slices and lighter choices.
For morning events and conferences, a breakfast cart can also be paired with our mobile coffee cart hire for freshly prepared specialty coffee alongside the food service.
Lunch food carts
Turn the usual catered lunch into something more social.
Our lunch catering can include gourmet sandwiches, burgers, salads and packed options, allowing guests to enjoy fresh food without losing the relaxed atmosphere of the event.
Food carts work particularly well for corporate lunches, workplace events, conferences and other occasions where you want food to be part of the experience rather than simply a break between activities.
Sweet and speciality food carts
Looking for something different from breakfast or lunch?
Gathering Events also offers a range of dessert cart hire and speciality cart experiences that can be booked alongside your food catering.
Options across our wider range include popcorn carts, churros carts, cannoli, gelato, icy poles and other event treats.
Food cart hire for corporate events, conferences and celebrations
Our mobile carts can be adapted to suit everything from a morning seminar to a large brand activation.
Corporate events and workplace catering
Food carts are an easy way to bring people together for office lunches, company celebrations, launches, staff events and end-of-year functions.
Rather than organising a conventional buffet or static catering station, guests can collect freshly served food directly from the cart while the event continues around them.
Conferences and trade shows
For conferences, exhibitions and trade events, mobile carts can provide breakfast, lunch or refreshments in a format that is easy for guests to access throughout the day.
For an early start, combine breakfast catering with a coffee cart. For longer events, talk to our team about combining food and drink services to suit your programme and guest numbers.
Brand activations and launches
Food can become part of the activation itself.
Gathering Events has created custom food cart experiences for product launches, retail events and campaigns, giving brands another way to attract attention and engage with guests.
For larger campaigns, explore our brand activation services or speak to us about custom branding for your cart and event presentation.
Weddings and private events
Food carts can also bring a relaxed, interactive style of catering to weddings, engagement parties, birthdays and private celebrations.
Tell us about the type of event you are planning and we can help you work through food choices and complementary cart services.
Real food cart experiences created by Gathering Events
Food carts can be much more than somewhere to collect lunch.
Our teams have created bespoke carts and catering experiences for events and activations across Australia.
Coach – Bondi Beach activation
For a two-day Coach summer campaign activation at Bondi Beach, Gathering Events created a combination of custom donut, pretzel and gelato carts.
Porsche – loaded waffle cart
For Porsche’s “More is Better” campaign, the team created a custom-branded loaded waffle cart as part of the event experience.
Myer – wellness carts
Gathering Events teams in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne created wellness carts serving granola and yoghurt cups as part of a spring retail activation for Myer.
Seminar breakfast catering
For a one-day seminar, Gathering Events combined a breakfast cart with a mobile coffee cart, giving guests food and freshly prepared coffee from two coordinated services.
Make the food cart part of your event
Every event is different, so the cart, menu and presentation can be planned around what you are trying to achieve.
For a straightforward corporate breakfast or lunch, that might mean a simple mobile food cart and professional service team.
For a launch or activation, the cart itself can become part of the visual experience. Gathering Events offers custom cart branding for events where branded presentation is important.
If you are planning several catering elements, you can also explore our food and drink packages.
Food cart hire in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane
Gathering Events provides food cart catering across Australia’s three major east-coast event markets, with teams also servicing surrounding areas.
Our Sydney team caters for events across Sydney CBD, the Central Coast, Western Sydney, Northern Beaches, Wollongong and surrounding areas.
Corporate events, conferences, private functions and brand activations can all be catered for with mobile food cart options.
Looking for a food cart for an event in Victoria? Explore our dedicated food cart hire Melbourne service.
Our Melbourne team services Melbourne CBD and surrounding areas including Geelong, Ballarat, Mornington and North Melbourne.
Our Brisbane team provides event food cart catering across Brisbane and surrounding areas including the Gold Coast, Sunshine Coast, Noosa, Ipswich and Byron Bay.
Food carts are available for corporate events, conferences, activations, weddings and private celebrations.
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DONUT CART
COACH
We created a large-scale two-day activation at Bondi Beach in Sydney for Coach. This event was to launch their new summer campaign. We created a custom Donut Cart, Pretzle Cart and Gelato Cart.
WAFFLE CART
PORSCHE
In line with their new, ‘More is Better’ campaign, we created a Loaded Waffle Cart with custom branding.
WELLNESS CART
MYER
Welcoming customers into Spring, our Brisbane, Sydney, and Melbourne teams created Wellness carts including granola & yogurt cups to give our complimentary to shoppers.
BREAKFAST CART
BLANK
For a one-day seminar, we created a custom Coffee Cart and Breakfast Cart for guests.
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Alex and her team were a pleasure to work with- they brought both professionalism and genuine care to every detail!
On behalf of the Workspace Commercial Furniture team, thank you to Gathering Events for the amazing oyster cart at our recent showroom launch. The oysters were outstanding and a real highlight of the evening. Ollie was exceptional, personable, charming, and fantastic with our guests, creating a great atmosphere throughout the night. Highly recommend and look forward to working together again.
Thanks for supporting our event with your popcorn cart and personalised artwork on the cart and cups. Bump in and bump out ran smoothly and was all well received by our tenants! We will definitely do it again!
Thanks for supporting our event with your coffee cart – as with past events, the booking process was super easy, drop off and collection ran smoothly and the coffee was so well received by our guests, such a nice added touch to our event. Thanks and see you again for future events.
We chose Gathering Events for our corporate launch events across Australia. Booking with Stephanie was straightforward, and she accommodated all our requirements. We also worked with Phoebe, Claudia, and Matt, who were all very professional and communicated well. Their forms made organizing logistics simple. The baristas at each location were excellent, and staff gave positive feedback. The carts, decorated with umbrellas and flowers, added a nice touch. I would highly recommend their services.
It’s always great working with the team at Gathering Events. They’re efficient with estimates, make the scheduling process simple, and their on-site event crew is always professional and friendly. See you at the next event!
I can't thank Stephanie, Jennie and their team enough for their prompt assistance at the 11th hour to assist me with getting a gelato cart sorted for an event. The Staff who assisted on the day were amazing. The gelato was delicious, feedback from attendees on the day were fantastic and I can't wait to book another cart with them in the future. I highly recommend!
We had a fantastic experience with Gathering Events! The coffee cart looked incredible, and the staff were so professional and easy to work with. Highly recommend to everyone!
Adam & Jen and the crew are awesome! We held our wedding at Maleny Retreat and Gathering Events had our service of alcohol covered - They helped with quantities and advice on what to serve to our guests. We even had the guys do espresso martini's which went down a treat with our everyone! Jen also helped co-oridinate our special day and we couldn't thank her enough! Thanks for making our day so special!
These amazing people did the popcorn cart for our wedding! It was something special we wanted to do and it was exactly how I hoped! We loved it so much and they made every step so easy. Great communication and so wonderful to work with. Highly recommend. The server was also excellent and the set up was perfect. Thanks again! Full-size Image by Sam Wyper Photography
I could not recommend Jenny and her team highly enough. Their entire team is a joy to work with - so accommodating, helpful and personable. This is a perfect addition to any event - big or small. You won't be disappointed, they really know their stuff and client experience seems to be at the top of their priority list. I wish all suppliers/businesses worked at this calibre!
My recent experience with Gathering Events was fantastic. I held a 30th birthday party at my house and the process/Setup was smooth and Adam and Jen were amazing! The cocktails were absolutely delicious and glasses were full all night. Cannot fault the service, will definitely use again.
Gathering Events provided an outstanding coffee service for our event! The coffee cart setup was fantastic, and the team's service was impeccable. The quality of the coffee was superb, and they also offered delicious gelato options. Highly recommend their services!!
We had Gathering Events run our bar at our garden wedding this month. From the first email I was impressed but I didn't yet know that they would offer such a professional and impeccable service. Jennifer was a pleasure to deal with in the lead up and answered all my questions promptly and confidently (even when I was stressing about numbers vs bar staff). Then on the day they well and truly delivered. Friends of ours raved about Adam at the bar and we felt like we could relax knowing that our guests were never thirsty or waiting too long for a drink.
Absolute pleasure to deal with!! We used Gathering events at a work function to help celebrate the 10 year anniversary of our business. Jen, Adam and their team were fantastic throughout the whole process keeping up communication prior to the event and then rolling out excellent service on the day. Made the event effortless for us and I highly recommend them for any occasion.
Wow!!!! Don't think I could give this review anymore stars if I tried..Jen and her team from Gathering Events were absolutely amazing from the get-go. I knew I could trust Jen's advice, as she steered me in the right direction for our office launch party for Talent's new Brisbane office. Food and cocktail carts were raved about by our guests, and the team were incredibly attentive. Thank you for making our event such a huge success!!
We booked Gathering Events for our wedding in April, we booked the timber pop-up bar and the caravan bar, Jen was so amazing and easy to deal with she was so helpful with my many questions and helped to bring the vision of what we hoped our wedding day would look like to life. We had a lot of requests and Gathering Events fulfilled all of them and more! From ceremony drinks right through to last drinks it was perfect and all our guests raved about the cocktails and the bars! They looked amazing! Thank you so much!! Couldn’t recommend Gathering Events more!
Absolutely amazing company Jen and Adam have created. Delicious coffee served by friendly staff. The styling is perfect and our customers loved it. Definitely keeping in touch for future events!
Gathering Events are simply awesome!! We have the pleasure of dealing with Adam, Jen and the Gathering Events team on a daily bases, and they are so customer focused its magic. I highly recommend engaging in Gathering Events services if you want your next event to rock!!!!!
Gathering Events gelato cart was the biggest hit at our recent launch night. Staff were so LOVELY! It was an ease to set-up from the booking through to the set-up on the day. Looking forward to having Gathering Events back on-board for future events.
Can not recommend Gathering events highly enough. They were the stars of our wedding. They made sure everything ran smoothly and even knew our guests by name and drink by the end of the night! Don't hesitate to work with them! outstanding service.
We organised a juice cart activation for our workplace through Gathering Events, Jen was amazing throughout the entire booking process and Chris was awesome on the day, making sure the day was a great success! Will definitely go through these guys again for our next event!