See what’s we’ve got on the menu. From big breakfasts to BBQ lunch and dinner, Tao Events will cater to your needs.
Tao Events is passionate about giving back to the community. For every three people we feed with our business, we feed one homeless person.
We believe a good meal should do more than simply fill your belly; it should fill your soul a bit too.
That’s why all TAO Events breakfasts are served with butter, pancake syrup, condiments, serving utensils, plates, and especially on-site music. After all, music encourages good feelings as well as your digestion.
Speaking of which, additional options include: country style potatoes, breakfast burritos, hot chocolate, and grilled fruit with chocolate sauce. Just ask!
Not enough? TAO Events offers additional options to enhance your breakfast event including: country style potatoes, breakfast burritos, hot chocolate, and grilled fruit with chocolate sauce. Just ask!
*Pricing is based on minimum 100 people, does not include $250 setup, staffing, permits fee. All prices subject to change.
Lunch and dinner are TAO’s main events. Burgers, smokies, steak, chicken, ribs… We live for this. We love it. And when you get a taste of what we’re BBQ’ing up, you’ll understand just how deep that love goes.
These meals come with everything - mustard, ketchup, relish, banana peppers, pop, water, finger desserts, condiments, serving utensils, plates, and of course our spirit-lifting on-site music.
Paolinis Meats supplies all our meat, and the Calgary Italian Bakery provides all our buns. Our servers are Alberta Health certified, and we’ll handle the cleanup when everything’s over.
Additional options include: kabobs, pork roast, baby back ribs, sirloin tip roast, salmon, bison burgers and 8 or 10 oz AAA grade Alberta beef filets or New York Strips. Just ask!
Cheese - add $0.50 per person
Fruit Tray - add $2.50 per person
Salads - add $2.00 per person
Fruit Tray - add $2.50 per person
Salads - add $2.00 per person
Chicken Breast (6 oz.) - add $1.50 per person
Burgers can be substituted with beef-on-a-bun.
Fruit Tray - add $2.50 per person
Not enough? TAO offers additional options to enhance your lunch or dinner event including: kabobs, pork roast, baby back ribs, sirloin tip roast, salmon, bison burgers and 8 or 10 oz AAA grade Alberta beef filets or massive New York Striploins. Just ask!
*Pricing is based on minimum 100 people, does not include $250 setup, staffing, permits fee. All prices subject to change.
TAO Events is a Calgary corporation delivering quality food and food service through its fully licensed catering company. We have designed our catering vision around something we call “The Show”. In other words, we go well beyond food-prep to deliver not just a meal but a meal experience.
All our quality meat products are supplied by Paolinis meats; buns are baked & delivered fresh to your event from Italian Bakery. We are licensed by Alberta Health, & our certified food handling employees guarantee you a safe, quality meal, every time.
The word “tao” has many meanings. But for us, it’s simply “the way”: a path to something greater, something more important. For your event, that means a catering experience that goes further than the food and the service. We bring an unmatched passion to not only how we cook, but how we serve. This is more than a business to us – it’s fun! And when food becomes fun, it becomes a real event. The upshot – you get great food, impeccable service, and a real connection with people who genuinely care about doing this. In other words, this is about so much more than serving up great grub – it’s about building relationships in a real way, over real things we all care about.
More importantly, it’s about creating a vibe that goes further than the event at hand. No, we’re not trying to exaggerate or be weird. The truth is that everything we do has an effect – rippling out and touching people in totally unexpected ways. In fact, it’s quite amazing what happens as a result of the events we cater and the meals we serve; something that goes far beyond our great burgers or killer steaks.
For more on what we like to call the “TAO effect”, check out our sister initiative,
www.thefoodfight.net
In short, we do it all. No, really! Here’s a list of just a few of our clients and their events:
• Universal Lincoln Ford - Customer Appreciation Days
• United Way Kick-off 1500-person event
• The Calgary Stampede – chuckwagon racers and outriders
• Calgary Folk Music Festival
• X-Fest
We also cater to schools for hot lunch days, cook for both builders and developers in their communities, and we’re happy to handle private dinner parties. No event is too big or too intimate. Rain or shine, snow or sleet, we’ll arrive at your event ready to go.
Our state-of-the-art mobile BBQ is ready to roll! It has the capacity to serve large quantities in a short period of time. To get things going, it boasts a sound system delivering over 500 watts of power, kicking up the party a few notches!
Our converted trailer stands over 12 feet high with a stainless steel kitchen along with two flat tops. It’s ready to deliver quality catering to both corporations and schools in the Calgary area 12-months a year – any weather, any time. Sponsored by Universal Ford Lincoln, it is undeniably the biggest chuckwagon available during Stampede!
The newest addition to our fleet. This 24-foot class-c converted motorhome is without question the envy of all “happy cookers” out there.
Top to bottom stainless steel and a 5 foot Garland steel double oven are ready to deliver H-appy’s appys to hungry patrons on the streets of Calgary.
Check it out at
H-appyTruck.com
As one of the leading Home Builders in Calgary Jayman MasterBuilt and all the divisions it encompasses prides itself on maintaining a high level of moral and appreciation with not only our employees but with our trade partners as well. Throughout the year we work hard towards ensuring the entire Jayman family is having a good time. In order to do so we call on our favorite vendors to help us out. Tao Events Catering has been working with us for a couple of years now and we have called on them for many events to date. These events would include our annual Stampede Celebration, Community family days, annual family day BBQ/Camping Trip, Trade Appreciation BBQ’s and any other function we might dream up along the way.
Tao Events Catering is a staple for any function we might be considering. The team is fast, they are efficient, friendly, organized and experts at what they do. Being flexible with menu items and choices enables us to utilize them for a broader spectrum of functions and events. Jayman could not be more pleased by the fact that with every meal we provide to our people we are also actually contributing to feeding some of Calgary’s very own Homeless residents. Tao’s work with the Homeless only increases the level of respect and appreciation we have for each meal prepared for us. Not only do we recommend Tao Events Catering to any person or company who might be looking, but we will continue to call on them for all our future events as well.
I began working with Perry McGeough from Tao Events in April, 2010. This relationship began on a professional level, with him hosting a radio event bbq for my dealership, Universal Ford Lincoln. I was so impressed with Perry and his dedication to his customers as well as his time spent volunteering in the community. His work ethic is second to none, and very admirable. He is always very professional, and takes pride in his work.
Since our initial meeting, Universal Ford Lincoln has contracted Perry for our weekly staff/customer barbecues. The customers and staff are always impressed and look forward to the food and atmosphere that is offered by Perry and his team.
Through the time spent working with Perry, I have developed a friendship with him. I consider this a valued partnership built on mutual respect and beliefs. He has a heart of gold, and no dream is too big for him to achieve. I have watched his passion for helping feed the less fortunate in the city of Calgary, and every time I am in awe at how he helps people so selflessly. Not only does he donate his time, he also donates food and organizes events throughout the year.
I would recommend using Perry McGeough, and Tao Events for any aspect of catering. Whether it’s a party of 10 or a group of 2000, he will deliver a great experience in a professional manner, and the food will be consistently fabulous. He takes on any job big or small with the same kind of importance. It is very rare to find an individual who just loves what he does, and wants people to be happy with the experience he provides.
"Master's Academy is an Elementary school in Calgary, Alberta. We and have chosen Tao Events to cater our Back to School Barbeque and our monthly burger lunches this year.
We have always found this organization to be easy to work with, committed to excellence and very knowledgeable about the safety aspects of the food service industry. Serving over 390 students and teachers monthly requires dependability and organization, both qualities that we have found evident in Tao Events. Mr. McGeough is personable and has a commitment to unwavering quality, necessary qualities when catering for young children.
It is with pleasure and confidence that I recommend Tao Events and look forward to a continue relationship with this company."
"I would like to take the opportunity to share my thoughts about tao events catering company. We were lucky enough last June to have Rawlco's Up 97.7 Radio Station host our year end School party and BQ. The station provided the entertainment and tao events catered the BQ. It was outstanding. We have hosted lots of events at the school and have used many facilities through-out Calgary and found tao events to be one of the best.
We liked them so much we hired them to do our annual Back to School parent BQ and Christmas Breakfast. We have also booked them to do our year end School BQ again this year. They are incredibly professional, prompt and willing to work with us to accommodate a variety of dietary restrictions. It is not easy to please children, teenagers and parents but tao catering seems to do this very successfully. Their products, service and level of friendliness is what brings us back. They are easy to deal with and I look forward to many more catered events."
When you choose TAO Events for your catering needs, you become part of something bigger: you become part of the mission that started it all. Our mission has always been to help those less fortunate here in Calgary. We accomplish that by delivering one meal to a homeless person for every three people we feed for you. It’s really that simple.
Thanks in part to our corporate sponsors and partners, last year alone we were able to feed over 40,000 meals to Calgary’s less fortunate. To learn more about about how this was accomplished, please visit:
