Catering Services Migros Basel

The Migros cooperative in Basel has had its own event catering team for more than 25 years, and that team has a dedicated wedding page. For a couple who want a large, well-staffed organization behind the food, with named contacts and a brochure to download before the first call, Catering Services Migros Basel is a natural fit. The weddings it cooks for range from a quiet circle of family to a party with everyone you love.

Which Migros this is

Migros is organized as regional cooperatives, and the experienced catering teams sit in the respective Migros cooperatives, each with its own regional pages. Catering Services Migros Basel is the Basel cooperative's team. The Migros Ostschweiz cooperative, which serves a different part of the country under the same brand, has its own site. Anyone searching the brand name should check that the page they land on names Basel.

The Basel team is a mix of hospitality specialists, graduates of hotel schools, buyers and logistics staff, and experienced sales people. That combination is what you want behind a wedding, where the cooking is only half the job and the buying, the transport and the timing are the other half. Eric Schneberger, head of Catering Services, and Lars Bomberg, event management, are named on every page. A contact button sits beneath them, and a catering brochure can be downloaded from the wedding page.

Three shapes of wedding, three formats of service

Weddings come in three shapes here: a romantic ceremony in a small circle, an elegant wedding in the countryside, or a big party with all your loved ones. The catering is designed individually for each, with creative menus, quality ingredients and attentive service, and the team takes care of everything so that you can enjoy the day.

The formats are elegant buffets, plated service and street food, and the team works from the first idea through to final execution. Ingredients are fresh and come from the Basel region, and regional products keep supply lines short. For a wedding in the countryside around the city, that means a menu built on ingredients from the same region. Menus, dishes, minimum guest numbers, prices and the venues where the team works are not published, so those questions belong in the first message.

Weddings next to other events

The same team also handles private celebrations and corporate events. Wedding is one of four headings on the offer page, next to private celebrations such as birthdays, anniversaries and family parties, business events running from a business lunch or team day to large client events, and a world-food offer.

In a 2016 blog post about the logistics of the GLAMhack hackathon, the person responsible for those logistics wrote that Catering Services Migros Basel provided the food and soft drinks at two sites, one of them the Botanical Garden, and called the team "super flexible", with the guest number to be set 10 days before the event. That was a hackathon and not a wedding, and it dates from 2016, but it is a named outside voice on how the team works with an organizer.

Languages and communication

The site is available in German, French and Italian. There is no English version of the Basel pages, and the wedding page is in German. A couple who do not read German should plan to write to the team in English and see how they respond, since the staff's working languages are not stated. A planner or the venue can also make the first contact.

Beside Migros Ostschweiz, à table and bisskid

Migros Ostschweiz, the sibling cooperative, is based in Gossau SG and serves weddings across six eastern cantons, with live cooking and a champagne reception. Basel names no live cooking but ties its offer to the Basel region. À table Gästebewirtung, an independent Basel party service, has worked in the city for more than 25 years and sources much of its produce from local growers, so the two are close in age and regional focus. Bisskid, which works mostly in northwestern Switzerland, runs around 950 events a year, a volume figure the Migros team does not publish.

For a wedding in Basel or the countryside around it, if you want a calm, organized caterer with food built on the region, Catering Services Migros Basel deserves an early place in your plans.