Lady K's Catering

What Lady K's Catering does

Lady K's Catering, LLC is a privately held, founder-owned mobile catering and food truck operator headquartered at 5463 Trade Street, Hope Mills, North Carolina, serving customers throughout Cumberland County, NC. The company operates a fully equipped mobile café called "Big Red" (also branded "Lady K's Café") that delivers on-site food service at wineries, breweries, festivals, farmer's markets, office parks, and residential communities, as well as full-service private event catering. Its core technology is the mobile kitchen itself — a self-contained food-service vehicle with a 38-gallon freshwater tank and 48-gallon gray water tank — which removes the venue-kitchen dependency typical of brick-and-mortar caterers.

The product portfolio spans four tiers of catering services ($25 to $55 per-person packages plus $600 bulk-order minimums and $1,500–$2,000 private event minimums), direct food truck sales at public events, and a small but growing line of packaged retail goods (Lady K's Spice Blend Collection and Lady K's Pound Cakes) sold through a Lightspeed-powered e-commerce storefront on cookingwithladyk.com. Signature differentiators include proprietary spice blends (chicken and vegetable), scratch-made recipes using fresh (never frozen) chicken hand-battered in seasoned flour and fried in soybean oil, and the absence of canned vegetables. The company is fully insured and provides Certificates of Insurance (COI) on request.

The business makes money through per-event catering fees, per-person package pricing, direct food truck transactional sales, bulk-order minimums (paid 30 days in advance), and incremental e-commerce revenue from packaged goods. Go-to-market is hybrid and event-driven: pre-orders are placed online by 7pm the night before service, the food truck appears at scheduled public venues and corporate office parks, and private/corporate bookings require 3–6 weeks notice. Customer segments include corporate office parks, corporate and private events, local attractions and festivals, personal celebrations (birthdays, graduations, baby showers, funerals), and educational/nonprofit organizations. The company is independently operated with no disclosed parent, institutional investors, or funding history, and operates with 1–10 employees.

Name

Lady K's Catering

Legal name

Lady K's Catering, LLC

Website

https://cookingwithladyk.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2013

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Lady K's Catering, LLC is a privately held mobile catering and food truck operator in Hope Mills, NC, serving corporate events, office parks, festivals, and private celebrations throughout Cumberland County with scratch-made comfort food, signature spice blends, and packaged retail goods sold online.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Catering Services

NAICS

Mobile Food Services (722330), Food Service Contractors (722310), Caterers (722320)

SIC

Retail-Eating Places (5812)

akta.pro primary industry

Meal Prep & Subscription Virtual Kitchens (THAFAJAI)

akta.pro secondary industries

Mobile Catering Trucks (On-Site Service) (THAFAHAJ), Pop-Up Food Vendors (Temporary Stands/Markets) (THAFAHAE), Event Catering (Weddings, Social, Private Parties) (THAFAIAB), Corporate & Office Catering (THAFAIAA)

Keywords

• Mobile catering services
• Food truck catering
• Corporate event catering
• Scratch-made comfort food
• Private celebration catering

Headquarters

HQ city

Leesburg

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Operations, Supply Chain, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure, Others

Revenue model

1. Catering Services: Per-person catering packages ranging from $25 to $55 per person with multiple menu options including appetizers, entrees, sides, and desserts. Includes both self-serve buffet and mobile café cafeteria-style service options.
2. Food Truck/Mobile Café Sales: Direct food sales from the mobile café at public events, office parks, wineries, festivals, and farmer's markets with no minimum guarantee required for public events.
3. Bulk Order Catering: Catering for smaller crowds of 30+ guests with $600 minimum order requirement and $45 delivery fee. Includes corporate meetings, luncheons, holiday parties, and family events.
4. Product Sales: Online sales of Lady K's Spice Blend Collection and Pound Cakes through their e-commerce platform.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Lady K's Catering, LLC provides full-service mobile catering and food truck operations out of Hope Mills, NC, serving corporate office parks, corporate events, private corporate events, and personal celebrations. In addition to event catering and bulk order catering, the company retails its own branded spice blends and pound cakes. Founded in 2013, the business operates within Cumberland County, North Carolina, with 1-10 employees.

Product overview

Lady K's Catering, LLC operates as a mobile catering service and food truck business in Cumberland County, North Carolina. The core offerings include Catering Services (for private events with self-serve buffet or mobile café cafeteria-style options) and Lady K's Café (the food truck serving scratch-made comfort food). Additional products include Bulk Order Catering for smaller gatherings (30+ guests), an Online Ordering System powered by their website, Lady K's Spice Blend Collection, and Lady K's Pound Cakes. The business operates from a mobile kitchen called 'Big Red' and serves various venues including wineries, breweries, office parks, festivals, and farmer's markets.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Catering Services Full-service catering for corporate events, private corporate events, office parks, and personal celebrations, including bulk order catering with tiered per-person packages.
• Lady K's Café Food Truck Mobile food truck service operating at corporate office parks, community events, festivals, fairs, and attractions, offering scratch-made comfort food to walk-up customers.
• Bulk Order Catering Large-quantity catering orders for events serving many guests, including corporate functions and personal celebrations.
• Lady K's Spice Blend Collection Retail-branded spice blends sold as standalone products to consumers and event customers.
• Lady K's Pound Cakes Branded pound cakes sold as standalone retail products.

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature2 records

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Fooda: Workplace food service platform offering rotating restaurant pop-ups and catering to corporate offices. Overlaps directly with Lady K's office park lunch service use case, but at platform scale.
• ezCater: National corporate catering marketplace connecting offices with local caterers. Comparable as a catering channel for corporate office park demand, but operates as a platform aggregating vendors like Lady K's rather than as a single operator.
• Zerocater: Corporate meal program provider for ongoing workplace food service. Comparable in serving recurring corporate catering demand, though at enterprise-program scale rather than a single food truck.
• The Halal Guys: Iconic food truck origin story that scaled into a national restaurant chain. Comparable mobile food service model with strong brand and proprietary recipes, but at a vastly larger scale than Lady K's.

Others

• Roaming Hunger: Food truck booking marketplace and lead-generation platform. Adjacent ecosystem participant that helps operators like Lady K's find event and catering leads, rather than a direct competitor.

Direct peers

• Kogi BBQ: Pioneering LA food truck known for Korean-Mexican fusion served from mobile units. Direct comparable as a brand-driven mobile food service operation with differentiated menu identity.
• Cousins Maine Lobster: Food truck brand that grew from a single truck into a national franchise serving lobster rolls. Highly comparable mobile food service model with brand-led differentiation, similar to Lady K's scratch-made comfort food positioning.

Emerging players

• CaterCow: Online marketplace for group ordering from local restaurants and caterers. Comparable catering channel for bulk-order corporate events, with overlapping customer use cases around office luncheons.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/CookingWitLadyK
• Facebookfacebook.com/CookingWithLadyK

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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