ACT 3 Catering

What ACT 3 Catering does

ACT 3 Catering is a privately held, locally owned full-service catering company headquartered in Tukwila, Washington, that has served the Greater Seattle and Tacoma markets for over 40 years (founded circa 1984–1986). The company coordinates weddings, corporate events, fundraisers and galas, social gatherings, and celebrations of life across the Puget Sound, with bar services and licensed bartenders offered as either a standalone offering or an add-on to full-service catering. Service modes span full-service catering with on-site staff, drop-off catering, a mobile food-truck concept, and (as of April 2026) a permanent café — the El Koreano Café inside LeMay – America's Car Museum in Tacoma, ACT 3's first brick-and-mortar restaurant.

The operating stack is conventional for a regional caterer: a Wix-hosted website with online inquiry, booking, and ezCater marketplace integration; licensed bartender operations; seasonal chef-crafted menus built around locally sourced ingredients; and venue-embedded partnerships that include built-in catering at THE 101 (Seattle), in-house catering at the Conference Center at SEA (Port of Seattle), and the El Koreano Café at LeMay. There is no proprietary software platform and no disclosed AI/ML capability; technology plays a supporting, not differentiating, role.

Revenue is generated primarily through per-guest wedding packages (Plated/Family Style $50 PP, Elegant Buffet $43 PP, Classic Buffet $38 PP, Essential Buffet $28 PP), quote-based corporate and social catering, drop-off catering, ezCater marketplace orders, food-truck bookings, and the new walk-in café. Distribution is hybrid: consultative direct sales for full-service events, self-serve online booking for inquiries, marketplace listings on The Knot, WeddingWire, and ezCater, and venue-embedded sales via the institutional partnerships. The customer base spans individual consumers (weddings, social events), SMBs (recurring corporate catering such as AOME Architects), nonprofits and museums (LeMay), and government/airport facilities (Port of Seattle Conference Center).

Name

ACT 3 Catering

Legal name

ACT 3 Catering

Website

https://act3catering.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1986

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

ACT 3 Catering is a privately held full-service catering company in Tukwila, Washington, serving weddings, corporate, and social events across the Greater Seattle and Tacoma area for over 40 years, with food-truck and café operations under the El Koreano sub-brand.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Tukwila

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices4 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Supply Chain, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Full-service catering: Full-service catering for corporate, wedding, and social events with professional staff handling setup, food service, guest support, and cleanup. Includes seasonal chef-crafted menus and add-on bar services.
2. Drop-off catering: Drop-off catering delivering freshly prepared food with disposable pans for casual office events, team lunches, and small meetings; no on-site staff provided.
3. Wedding catering packages: Multi-tier wedding catering packages (Plated/Family Style at $50/PP, Elegant Buffet at $43/PP, Classic Buffet at $38/PP, Essential Buffet at $28/PP) with private tastings, dedicated wedding coordinator, and optional enhancements such as Pop-Up Oyster Bar, tableside wine service, interactive chef stations, late-night snacks, and El Koreano food truck.
4. El Koreano Café (brick-and-mortar): Café operations inside LeMay - America's Car Museum serving Korean-Hispanic fusion cuisine including breakfast, espresso, beer, wine, and American café fare; ACT 3 Catering's first brick-and-mortar restaurant opened April 23, 2026.
5. El Koreano Food Truck: Mobile Korean-Mexican fusion food truck service for outdoor gatherings, neighborhood block parties, and casual events including FIFA World Cup watch parties.
6. Bar services: Hosted bars with licensed bartenders, hand-selected local wines, signature cocktails, beer, and non-alcoholic options; add-on to wedding and full-service packages.
7. Marketplace orders via ezCater: Online ordering of catering products through the ezCater marketplace for delivery/individual orders.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion5 records

Distribution channels8 records

Marketing channels10 records

Core offering

ACT 3 Catering is a full-service catering company headquartered in Tukwila, Washington, serving the Greater Seattle and Tacoma area for 40+ years. It provides chef-crafted full-service and drop-off catering for weddings, corporate events, fundraisers/galas, social events, celebrations of life, and bar service, with four per-person wedding package tiers, licensed bartender service, and integrated venue partnerships at THE 101 and the Conference Center at SEA. The company also operates the El Koreano Korean-Mexican fusion food truck and a new brick-and-mortar El Koreano Café inside LeMay - America's Car Museum in Tacoma.

Product overview

ACT 3 Catering operates as a single, unified full-service catering business rather than a multi-product software platform. Its core offering is event catering (weddings, corporate, fundraisers/galas, social events, celebrations of life, and bar service) across the Greater Seattle and Tacoma area, delivered via two primary service modes: full-service catering and drop-off catering. Around this core, ACT 3 has built a portfolio of named sub-brands and venue partnerships, including the El Koreano Food Truck, the new El Koreano Café at LeMay – America's Car Museum (its first brick-and-mortar restaurant), exclusive catering for The Conference Center at SEA at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, and an integrated wedding catering partnership with THE 101 venue in Seattle. The company's products are tightly integrated operationally — for example, the El Koreano food truck can be booked as a wedding enhancement, the Conference Center menu is curated by ACT 3's culinary team, and seasonal packages like the FIFA World Cup 2026 catering offering leverage the same full-service and drop-off infrastructure.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• El Koreano: A Korean-Mexican fusion food concept under ACT 3 Catering, originally a food truck and expanded into a permanent café at LeMay – America's Car Museum in Tacoma, Washington in April 2026.

Products and services

• Wedding Catering

Quantifiable outcome

• Average wedding catering cost ranges between $12,000 and $15,000 for 100 guests
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers5 records

Segments7 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration1 record

Scale indicators7 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Others

• ezCater: National online marketplace for corporate catering that lists ACT 3 as a marketplace partner on its storefront. Included as an adjacent/ecosystem peer because it is a distribution channel and indirect competitive platform that affects pricing and discoverability for ACT 3's drop-off and corporate catering business.
• The Knot / WeddingWire (WeddingPro): National wedding vendor marketplace where ACT 3 maintains a profile and has won The Knot Best of Weddings six years running. Included as an ecosystem peer because it is both a lead-generation channel and a competitive benchmarking platform for wedding caterers.

Regional players

• Tumbleweed Catering & Events: Pacific Northwest caterer focused on weddings, corporate events, and fundraisers across the region. Regional peer serving an overlapping geography and customer base to ACT 3's Seattle–Tacoma territory, though with a different operational footprint.

Direct peers

• Galvin Events: Greater Seattle caterer offering wedding, corporate, and private event catering with bar service and event coordination. Direct peer competing for the same wedding and corporate event dollars in the Puget Sound region.
• Catering by Judy: Long-established Pacific Northwest caterer offering full-service wedding, corporate, and social event catering in the Seattle area. Direct peer with overlapping service menu, pricing tiers, and target customer (couples and corporate event planners) as ACT 3 Catering.
• Herban Feast Catering: Seattle-based full-service caterer specializing in weddings, corporate events, and seasonal farm-to-table menus across the Puget Sound. Direct peer because it competes for the same wedding and corporate catering accounts in the Greater Seattle–Tacoma market that ACT 3 serves.
• Pacific Catering & Events: Pacific Northwest catering company offering corporate, wedding, and social event catering with full-service and drop-off options. Direct peer with overlapping target customers, service style, and Puget Sound geography.
• Ravishing Radish Catering: Seattle-based farm-to-table caterer offering full-service weddings, corporate, and social event catering with seasonal menus. Direct peer competing on culinary quality, seasonal sourcing, and wedding/corporate segments in the same metro area.
• The Catering Company of Seattle: Seattle-area full-service caterer for weddings, corporate events, and private parties with comparable per-person package tiers and bar service add-ons. Direct peer competing for the same SMB and mid-market corporate and wedding spend in Greater Seattle.
• Tuxedos and Tennis Shoes Catering & Events: Seattle-based full-service caterer providing wedding, corporate, and social event catering with bar service and rentals. Direct peer because it competes head-to-head for the same wedding and corporate catering RFPs in the Puget Sound region.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks1 record

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/ACT3Catering
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/act-3-catering
• Instagraminstagram.com/act3catering
• TikToktiktok.com/@act3_catering
• Pinterestpinterest.com/ACT_3_Catering/_created
• Xx.com/act3catering1

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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