From TV writers’ rooms to executive offices to on-site productions, there are certain Los Angeles eateries that seem to have a ubiquitous presence at group work lunches across Hollywood: Joan’s on Third, Tender Greens, Sweetgreen.
For group-order staple Mendocino Farms, over 50% of its Los Angeles business revolves around the entertainment industry. But once Covid-19 hit the U.S. in March 2020, prompting the major studios, entertainment law firms and accounting firms to go remote, the restaurant chain’s catering business cratered.
Pre-pandemic, catering accounted for a “decent portion” of Mendocino Farms and had been steadily increasing year over year, said Sarah Cavalier, Mendocino Farms’ director of sales and catering, who has been with the company for seven years.
“We got a lot of cancellations, one after another — we had just opened a brand-new location in Dallas the day before pretty much the world changed. And it was just kind of shocking how quickly everything changed,...
For group-order staple Mendocino Farms, over 50% of its Los Angeles business revolves around the entertainment industry. But once Covid-19 hit the U.S. in March 2020, prompting the major studios, entertainment law firms and accounting firms to go remote, the restaurant chain’s catering business cratered.
Pre-pandemic, catering accounted for a “decent portion” of Mendocino Farms and had been steadily increasing year over year, said Sarah Cavalier, Mendocino Farms’ director of sales and catering, who has been with the company for seven years.
“We got a lot of cancellations, one after another — we had just opened a brand-new location in Dallas the day before pretty much the world changed. And it was just kind of shocking how quickly everything changed,...
- 7/7/2021
- by Elaine Low
- Variety Film + TV
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