256 Carol Events Inc.

What 256 Carol Events Inc. does

Carol's Event Staffing, legally 256 Carol Events Inc., is a privately held hospitality staffing company founded in 1994 by Carol Brewer and headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. The firm provides professional serving and bar staff — servers, bartenders, captains, greeters, coat check attendants, and registration attendants — to events across four core segments: weddings, corporate functions, social and home events, and trade shows. Operations are concentrated in the Chicagoland area, where the company has been continuously active for more than 30 years and maintains a 5.0-star Google rating used as social proof.

The business operates on a direct-to-consumer model with no proprietary technology platform, mobile app, API, or software stack. Customer inquiries are handled via a Squarespace-hosted website with per-event-type service pages and a contact form, supplemented by phone (773-506-8000), email, and organic Facebook and Instagram channels. Pricing is quote-based per event, varying by event size, duration, and service requirements, with revenue generated through professional service fees and an ancillary Gift Certificate offering. There are no disclosed integrations, AI/ML capabilities, patents, trademarks, certifications, or formal partnerships.

The company is founder-owned with no disclosed institutional investment, parent company, subsidiaries, or M&A activity, and the ownership commentary describes a simple private business structure typical of long-running local service firms. Carol Brewer personally emphasizes attention to detail and a staff-matching process in which the office team assigns individual staff to events based on known strengths, supporting a stated differentiator of repeat-staff availability for recurring engagements and long-term client relationships with caterers, event planners, and venue partners in the Chicago market.

Name

256 Carol Events Inc.

Legal name

Carol's Event Staffing

Website

https://carolseventstaffing.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1994

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Carol's Event Staffing is a Chicago-based hospitality staffing firm founded in 1994 that provides servers, bartenders, captains, and event support staff for weddings, corporate events, social gatherings, and trade shows across the Chicagoland area.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Event Staffing Services

NAICS

Food Service Contractors (722310)

SIC

Services-Management Services (8741)

akta.pro primary industry

Event Culinary Staffing & Back-of-House Services (Chefs, Servers, Bartenders) (THAHAKAN)

Keywords

• Event staffing services
• Hospitality staffing
• Wedding catering staff
• Corporate event staff
• Bar and server staffing

Headquarters

HQ city

Chicago

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Event Staffing Services: Provides professional serving and bar staff for events on a per-event basis. Revenue is generated through service fees for staffing events including weddings, corporate functions, social gatherings, and trade shows. Services include setup, serving, bartending, and cleanup.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

256 Carol Events Inc. (doing business as Carol's Event Staffing) provides professional hospitality and event staffing services in the Chicagoland area, supplying servers, bartenders, captains, greeters, and coat check attendants to weddings, corporate events, social/home events, and trade shows. Founded in 1994, the Chicago-based company hand-matches its roster of trained hospitality professionals to the specific needs of each event.

Product overview

Carol's Event Staffing is a single-service hospitality staffing company that has operated since 1994, providing professional serving and bar staff for events in the Chicagoland area. The company offers a unified portfolio of event staffing services organized by event type: Social & Home Events, Wedding Staffing, Corporate Event Staffing, and Trade Show Staffing. Each service offering provides tailored staffing combinations (servers, bartenders, captains, greeters, coat check, registration attendants, and light kitchen prep) appropriate to the event category. The company also offers Gift Certificates as a supplementary offering. The core differentiator is the matching of staff strengths to event requirements and the emphasis on quality, attention to detail, and seamless event execution.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Broad incumbents

• Cvent: Cvent is a large-scale event management platform used by corporate and association planners to source venues, manage attendees, and coordinate vendors — overlapping the corporate-events segment Carol's serves, though at the software/organizer layer rather than on-site staffing.
• Eventbrite: Eventbrite operates a ticketing and event-management platform serving a wide range of consumer and trade events, including trade shows and social gatherings — adjacent to Carol's on the demand-generation and discovery side of the events Carol's staffs.
• WeddingWire: WeddingWire (now part of The Knot Worldwide) is a wedding vendor marketplace where couples discover and book service providers including event staff — directly competing for the wedding segment Carol's services.
• ezCater: ezCater runs a corporate catering marketplace that bundles food, delivery, and on-site service for office events and meetings, competing for the same corporate-catering budget that often funds hospitality staffing engagements like Carol's.
• The Knot Worldwide: The Knot Worldwide (The Knot and WeddingWire) is the dominant wedding vendor marketplace in the U.S., and competes with Carol's for the attention and budget of couples planning weddings — one of Carol's primary use cases.

Emerging players

• Bizzabo: Bizzabo offers an enterprise event experience platform used by corporate event teams — overlapping Carol's corporate-event customer base while competing for the technology budget that determines which staffing vendors get integrated.
• Aisle Planner: Aisle Planner is wedding planning software used by professional planners — the same coordinator channel Carol's collaborates with on wedding day execution — making it an adjacent peer influencing which staffing vendors get specified.
• HoneyBook: HoneyBook provides business-management software (CRM, contracts, invoicing) to wedding and event professionals, many of whom are the same planners and caterers who would otherwise engage Carol's or its competitors for staffing.
• Splash: Splash is an event marketing platform for branded corporate events and conferences — adjacent to Carol's corporate-event segment, with potential to bundle or disintermediate external staffing partners.

Others

• Thumbtack: Thumbtack is a marketplace that connects consumers and SMBs to local service professionals including event staff, bartenders, and servers — competing with Carol's at the customer-acquisition layer for the same end clients.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks4 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/carolseventstaffing
• Instagraminstagram.com/carolseventstaffing.com

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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