Exquisite Food

Simply the best cuisine you could ever expect no matter the size of the event!

High-Quality & Nutritious

We understand the extreme importance of proper nutrition and providing high-quality food to our guests.

An Incredible Team

Over 100 years of combined experience in the Hospitality and Food Services field.

Award-Winning Recipes

Chef only uses award-winning, proven recipes from his father, Chef Dick Middleton

Our Experience

MIDDLETON LARGE EVENT CATERING is a western Canadian based food services company with a deep-rooted passion for delivering, fresh, delicious and wholesome food with a focus on Alberta and its locally sourced products. We were established out of the necessity to provide comprehensive, professional services to individuals, organizations & corporations that require a higher level of catering that, historically, has not been available to large events and most especially in remote locations.

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Meet Our Chef

Our culinary team is led by our Director of Food Services, Chef Richard Middleton, an award-winning Gold Seal and Gold Medal Chef with a truly impressive resume, privileged to present to, and were heartily received by Royals, as well as movie stars on large events such as the Titanic, and the personal chef for Kelsey Grammer.

Richard, who hails from Halifax Nova Scotia is an exceptional expert in large-event catering, organization and deployment. Of note, his team catered to over 6000 meals per day over 8 days at the Grande Prairie Arctic Winter Games in 2010. Richard, and his team, were awarded the Award of Excellence for their exquisite service at these games.

Experience Speaks for Itself

Chef Middleton responds to the major challenges facing any catering company bidding for large events.

Nothing but high-quality, nutritious food!

At MIDDLETON LARGE EVENT CATERING we understand the extreme importance of proper nutrition and providing high-quality food to our guests. If provided with options for a nutritionally balanced complete meal they will be more healthy, alert and productive.

We are also very familiar with the unique challenges associated with securing fresh products, especially in remote environments. Whenever possible we encourage our suppliers to deliver to us top-quality, non-generic and locally-grown products. We work with our suppliers to ensure that the flow of product goes uninterrupted. This helps ensure a proper, well-executed event.

Our stakeholders are our priority

Our solutions are implemented with the long-term objective of creating strong relationships with our clients, suppliers and our staff, toward providing exceptional products and services. Our stakeholders are our priority, and this includes any organization we do business with, as well as our employees.

100% compliant with AHS health & safety requirements, we are geared up and ready to serve you with the utmost in professionalism, offering nothing but the very best quality, and SAFE food handling service for your next event!

Our History

MIDDLETON LARGE EVENT CATERING is a 2nd generation business that was started by Chef Middleton’s father, Dick Middleton, who was the founding member of the Canadian Federation of Chefs de Cuisine, and started the first Culinary Institute in Canada (CIC) at the Nova Scotia Institute of Technology. Now a gold medal chef himself, Chef Richard uses award-winning recipes proven by his father, recipes that we have been privileged to present to, and were heartily received by Royals, as well as movie stars on large events such as the Titanic, and big names such as Kelsey Grammer , so we’re very proud of our recipes.

Quality Assurance Program

MIDDLETON LARGE EVENT CATERING has designed a comprehensive Quality Assurance Program. By relying on quality assurance expertise and best practices from industry and the expertise of our founders, we developed a program to meet the needs of the customers that requires quality services in large, special events, even in remote locations often in extremely challenging environments.

The program was designed to glean evidence needed to establish quality in work, to ensure activities that require good quality are performed effectively, and also to provide comprehensive feedback to both internal management and our customers.

The program includes…

Staff & Volunteer Training
Unscheduled Site Inspections
Site Safety Compliance Testing
Operations Inspections
Health, Food and Safety Compliance Testing
Effective Customer Feedback.

The program evaluates effectiveness and quality..

Food quality
Customer Satisfaction
Sanitation
Inventory
Training
Health and Safety

What Our Clients Think

“Chef Middleton catered our wedding a few years ago and that was one wedding stress I knew I didn’t need to have. From our initial conversation and throughout the planning process we were at ease with his ability and thrilled with the menu options.
When it came to the big day any expectations we had were completely blown away, as was everyone else! To this day, most of the time our wedding is talked about it is someone remembering how amazing the dinner was!”
Richard & Elissa

Wolves Athletics

To provide food services to 2000+ people from a variety of countries is an ominous task; a task that was performed extremely well by Mr. Middleton and his crew. They exceeded our expectations!”

Mr. Middleton provided excellent food throughout the entire Games. There was plenty of food for all and it was delicious. They contributed a steak dinner on the final night of the Games that everyone thoroughly enjoyed. The management of the entire food services was outstanding!

I highly recommend Richard Middleton for the provision of any and all food services. He is outstanding and over delivers on what he promises. He was exceptional with the 2010 Arctic Winter Games in Grande Prairie.

Francois Fournier
Former General Manager, 2010 Arctic Winter Games Host Committee

2010 Arctic Winter Games

Under the direction of Richard Middleton, food services provided for the participants at the 2010 Arctic Winter Games held in Grande Prairie were of excellent quality. Menus met the specified needs of the participants and there was ample choice of appetizing fresh food.

Our Host Society was especially pleased with Mr. Middleton’s willingness to work with our organization when presented with the challenges this type of event can bring, including offering fresh, hot food over an entire day and dealing with box lunches/off-site food.

Upon my visits to the food services venue I was impressed with Mr. Middleton’s management skills in arranging for his staff to work closely with our volunteers and staff to ensure a continuous smooth operation of food services over the week of the Games.

Doris Landry
Manager for the 2010 Arctic Winter Games

Breezy North Constructian

Our company enjoyed the full services of Richard Middleton whose company managed a construction camp we were occupying during the 2014/2016 winter heavy construction season in Manitoba.

Their quiet confidence, improving skillset and evolving professionalism was noticeable as their staff training progressed. Their laughter was infectious and we thoroughly enjoyed the fruits of their labour – both in the kitchen and cooking and also as housekeeping maintaining the dorm and camp.

I was impressed by the professionalism and abilities of Chef Middleton and his staff. I would highly recommend the company both for training purposes and for camp management. They made a big part of our winter work season most enjoyable!

Janice Anderson
Clerk of The Works

Our Client List

Some of the clients our award-winning culinary team has proudly served…

Alberta Winter Games 2020

Alberta Summer Games 2018

Grande Prairie Arctic Winter Games 2010

2001 World Track and Field Games

Celtic Highland Games (Multiple)

Spruce Meadows

Canadian National Airshow (Multiple – and Up to 52,000 people)

Unveiling of the Stealth Bomber

Multiple Music Festivals

Manitoba Metis Federation

Alberta Sustainable Resources

Alterra Power

Emperor of Japan

RH Lieutenant Governor Lois Hole

RH Lieutenant Governor Norman Kwong

RH Ralph Klein

House of Windsor

Senior Nato officials

Kelsey Grammer

Crew & Cast members of “Titanic”

XTO Energy – a division of Exxon Mobil

All events at TELUS World of Science Edmonton 2003-2007