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Food Truck Employee Appreciation Catering in Santa Barbara

Don't let your amazing employee appreciation event get ruined by poor-quality food or an archaic and slow ordering service. Let Best Food Trucks blow everyone's minds with the best food trucks for employee appreciation events made by our professional chefs and streamlined by Best Food Trucks’ state-of-the-art ordering service!
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Best Catering Expertise

By managing food truck daily life from event booking, to online ordering and catering we have cultivated an intimate relationship with great vendors throughout the country and know exactly which truck(s) will suit your needs, from a small neighborhood party to massive corporate events.

Cities
1900+
Caterings
2,000+
Attendees
300,000+
Cuisines
80+

Food Truck Catering for Offices in Santa Barbara

Imagine giving your team a lunch break that feels more like a stroll down State Street than a mad dash to the nearest fast-food counter. Best Food Trucks brings the top food trucks of Santa Barbara directly to your parking lot, transforming any weekday into a pop-up culinary festival. With a fully equipped mobile kitchen on site, every meal is cooked to order—no heat lamps, no soggy chafing dishes, and absolutely no lost productivity while employees search the Mesa for something better.

Whether your office overlooks the Funk Zone or sits steps from Cabrillo Boulevard, we make Santa Barbara office food truck catering effortless. Our industry-leading scheduling platform lets you rotate multiple cuisines throughout the month, so Taco Tuesday can roll into Fried-Chicken Friday without a hitch. Choose from local favorites like authentic Mexican from Tacos Pipeye, Latin comfort classics from Maravilla Latin Cuisine, gourmet street tacos via Gloria's Gourmet Kitchen, crispy fried chicken and fusion fare from Yummy Bird, or traditional flavors courtesy of Taqueria Mena. There’s a menu to satisfy every palate from Goleta to Montecito.

Our dedicated catering team handles all the logistics—permits, parking coordination, and on-site service—so you can focus on your meeting agenda instead of buffet lines. Need vegetarian, vegan, or gluten-free options for your tech crew over on Hollister Avenue? We’ve got you covered. From planning to cleanup, we provide 24/7 support to ensure your office lunch catering in Santa Barbara goes off without a hitch.

Ditch scoops and sternos; book a fleet of fresh flavors today and discover why local companies trust Best Food Trucks for the best food truck catering Santa Barbara has to offer.

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Fueling Santa Barbara’s Small Businesses

Booking a food truck for your office lunch does more than satisfy hunger—it keeps Santa Barbara’s independent culinary scene thriving. Each truck we partner with is a family-owned or chef-run venture, whether it’s a husband-and-wife team slinging tri-tip sandwiches sourced from the Saturday Farmers Market or a UCSB alum hand-pressing tortillas right on your Goleta campus. Every lunchtime service funnels revenue back into our local economy, from the Funk Zone commissaries that prep the produce to the Santa Ynez farms that grow it.

Food trucks are also an eco-smart choice for corporate catering in Santa Barbara. Because the kitchen is already on wheels, there’s no need for boxed lunches, sternos, or single-use chafing pans—dramatically cutting down waste along Cabrillo Boulevard and beyond. Many of our vendors run on propane or hybrid generators and compost their kitchen scraps, keeping our beaches and bluffs as pristine as your conference room.

The next time “office catering Santa Barbara” pops into your search bar, skip the generic buffet and choose a socially responsible option that tastes as good as it feels. Reach out to Best Food Trucks and turn your workplace courtyard into a pop-up showcase of local talent—one taco, bao, or wood-fired pizza at a time.

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Hire a Food Truck for your Employee Appreciationin Santa Barbara today

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Our features

Streamlined Requests

With our quick and simple online catering form, you can request food trucks for your next event in a matter of minutes, specifying your guest count, budget and dates.

Choose Your Favorites

After you submit a catering request to us, our team will check availability for you and send over a list of amazing food truck menus to browse through (try not to drool).

Simplified Payments

Once you've decided on which truck you'd like to book, confirming them is as easy as clicking a button. All payments are handled securely on our website for ease of booking.

Pre-Ordering

If your meal time is limited, our staff will work with you to coordinate an online pre-order system where meals are predetermined and handed out hot during service.

Support Team

Our dedicated support team will be with you every step of the way from planning to organizing to grubbing your little heart out. With every event you'll have a dedicated member of our team available in case anything should arise.

Corporate Portal

With customizable features, executives can set up their own account, add a credit card and let their employees order as they want from the food truck or set spending limits.

They talk about us

4.64 (164,684 reviews)

Tony F.

29 December 2025

Joann and her team with Senor Blues was a pleasure to work with for our company Xmas party. They showed up early and were ready to go when our party started and the food was delicious.

Matt T.

15 December 2025

Showed up early, were very friendly and the food was good.

Kenneth J.

21 November 2025

We hired the truck for an employee recognition event. Everyone enjoyed the fresh food!

Michael R.

12 November 2025

Always great! Good quality & Portions.

Brenda W.

3 November 2025

Tacos El Poblanito was fantastic! Everyone loved the food and the team on the truck was great. Great service, very personable and speedy service. Will def. hire again.

Tom H.

3 November 2025

Doc is great and we really enjoyed the food as well as is excellent sense of hospitality and customer service.

Michael R.

6 October 2025

Great pizza! Perfect lunch proportions and really friendly crew.

Kathleen G.

30 September 2025

The food was great! EVERYONE enjoyed the variety of the menu, and the husband and wife team were fantastic! GREAT job!

April W.

26 September 2025

Our employees loved the food truck and they were prompt and had enough food for both our day and night shift team members. The food was delicious. We would definitely use them again for future events.

Elizabeth K.

23 September 2025

No complaints. Food was delicious. Workers were nice and hard-working.

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