Catering by Scott

The whole poached salmon was delicious! The lemon dill sauce was exceptional! The chocolate covered strawberries were scrumptious:-) Everyone loved it! Would be perfect for any special occasion!

I have used Catering by Scott for both of my daughter’s First Communion parties — yes, he is so reasonable that he makes more sense than trying to cook for 20 to 30 people! His food is excellent. He is so easy to work with. He dropped the food on time and in perfect condition. I have many vegetarians and health conscious relatives and they ate every bite. Very healthy and beautiful looking food and everything tastes amazing. The kids LOVED the fruit skewers. I ordered extra for the second party. Scott is responsive, has wonderful insights and doesn’t try to push extra food. He really listens to your wishes and accommodates your needs. I will use Scott again and again!

Scott totally bungled our wedding. Our wedding took place the Sunday after the major storm that hit Columbus on June 29^th and everyone came together to make the day happen despite the loss of power except for Scott. I will NEVER use Scott’s service or recommend him again. He hung up on me when I called him to get a straight story from him and he screamed at me that he was the only person who went «above and beyond» that weekend. His servers literally just up and left before dinner was even served and they threatened to strip the linens right out from under our guests before they had even finished eating dinner. At least one table was never even served dinner and a guest of ours who is a type 1 diabetic had to leave our wedding because he had to go get something to eat. We had no wedding cake except for the small 8″ round that an employee of the facility ran out to get us because she felt so badly that Scott had flaked on absolutely everything. We had no appetizers, either. He promised to stock the bar with enough alcohol and we ran out in less than an hour, and with no appetizers to eat many of our guests were drunk before the night had even gotten started. He was so nice in the months leading up to the wedding and then when push came to shove and he actually had to work hard he just threw in the towel and that is not professional in my opinion. He literally did not even show up to our wedding. But he claims this is above and beyond service. We paid him thousands of dollars to cater our wedding and to not even make contact with the bride and groom who paid him the weekend of is just bad business.
In 2013 I began working in the administrative office of a local synagogue. During this time my husband and I were in the process of suing Scott in small claims court to recover a good portion of the money we paid him to screw up our wedding. Scott had done business at this particular synagogue, being one of the only kosher caterers in Columbus. After many months of trying to recover money that he had not paid the synagogue in catering fees, my boss actually had a letter hand delivered to him stating that he was no longer welcome to do business there until he paid up. Scott, being a total sleaze, had his attorney call up my boss and tell him that Scott was actually mailing the checks all along and I must have been throwing them in the trash before anyone ever saw them. There’s two problems with that: 1) I did not collect and/​or sort the mail as part of my job, and 2) he had owed them money since long before I started working there. But this just goes to show you the kind of guy Scott is. He is truly the definition of a shady businessman.
Ultimately we settled with him through a mediator so we would never have to deal with him again. But he continued to act like scum even in front of the mediator. He brought a phone log of calls with him to try to prove that we had in fact spoken over the weekend (which we never did), and he circled the number of the original venue and said that it was me calling him. The problem with that is that on the date and time of that call, I was in New Albany at a pre-​wedding event, not at the original venue. He also circled numbers claiming that they were my father calling him. Even if that was my father calling (which it wasn’t. My dad lives in California and has a California phone number. That number was Columbus.), he was not in contract with my father. He was in contract with me. There was a hole in every aspect of his story.
The original venue said they called Scott the day of the storm to come and get his food out of their fridge before it all went bad since they had lost power. Scott refused. And I have a letter from the venue’s insurance company stating this. He lies every chance he gets and he tries to make everyone else out to be an idiot. I have no doubt that many people have had positive experiences with Scott. His food is very good and he is a smooth talker. But when things go even slightly off track, Scott is the worst. I cannot stress enough how much time, money, and aggravation you’ll save yourself if you just go with someone else.

8÷17÷2011 3:00 pm
WOW — I have to say I am now giving major credit and kudos to Scott. I just received a personal phone call to review details of our event and where things went awry.
Apparently the employee who worked with us is no longer with the company. So, she got the flack. We do have a vm logged from the proprietor.
We’ll use this catering again in the future and see how it goes!
One excellent element of note for those planning corporate events learned from this phone call: You can provide your own serving and display ware in the event you are hosting a static station that does not require staffing. They will do the displays et all on the plating for you — VERY COOL!
I haven’t seen this option before in the catering world yet.
Stay tuned folks!
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Had this catering company for a work event — it was a big deal with a leading accounting firm, the leading area bank, and a bunch of attorneys.
We tried to place an order about 10 days in advance for 60 people which should be no big deal in the catering world. We asked for suggestions, because we really wanted to use Scott’s but cocktail meatballs weren’t going to cut it for this crowd and were looking into lighter and more elegant summer fare and needed suggestions for what would compliment our theme. We were told we’d receive a call back by Monday… no surprise, no call.
We called back and the lady we spoke to was the same one we’d spoken with to do the initial booking. She had no recollection of the conversation — which means no order was in the books or as a place holder. We settled for something as general selections. It arrived on time and in hotboxes.
We ordered plus more:
Whole Baked Brie (serves15−20 guests) $ 40.00
Wrapped in Phyllo baked with caramelized apple slices in a beautiful floral display. Served at room temperature with crackers. HOUSE SPECIALTY!
Crab Cakes $ 1.75
Appetizer size served with crab Louie sauce.
Cheese plate — plain ‘ol cheese — nothing special.
Review:
One orchid blossom on top of a wheel of brie does not constitute a floral display, nor one we could create on our own when we set the food display. No one touched this in a party of 60 people (I liked the flavor though).
Cheese plate — ok.
Crab cakes — about silver dollar sized, got good feedback on the louie sauce
Meatballs — typical stuff, but that’s what we were expecting.
**HERE’S the BEST PART** — I commented on an interactive forum for a venue space that uses this caterer — hence wanting to try them out in advance for a smaller sized event before committing to a 200 – 300 person event. In mentioning we had a not so great experience at work, and asking what were others’ experiences were like, what kind of budget did they work with and who else had they compared with— my comment/​question was deleted, and I was kicked off the forum.
BAD social media mojo. It would have been great if the person had
reached out to find out what our experience was like, either by response post, or in taking mine down but then reaching out personally via private message. Keep in mind, there was absolutely no flaming — just the questions as listed above.
To be fair, the reviews posted on the business website are all positive.
They could win me back as I LOVE the venue — they just need to build professional faith in me by reaching out.