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COVID OR NOT, YOUR HEALTH & SAFETY is our top priorty… always!
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!
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.
Our solutions are implemented with the long-term objective of creating strong relationships with our clients by providing exceptional service and perpetual support. Our stakeholders are our priority, and this includes any organization we do business with, as well as our employees. The team has vast knowledge and experience of working across many countries throughout the world. Their ability to understand and cater to international and cultural diversities has proved to be an invaluable asset in ensuring the smooth operation of special events, small and large.
Excellent Team
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An incredible team with over 100 years of combined experience in the Hospitality and Food Services field.
Richard Middleton
Director of Food Services, Chef
Our culinary team is led by our Director of Food Services, Chef Richard, an award-winning Gold Seal and Gold Medal Chef with a truly impressive resume. Richard, who hails from Halifax Nova Scotia is an expert in large-event catering, organization and deployment.
Most recently 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 work at these games.
Fraser Arnold
Operations Manager
Involved in the Food Service and hospitality business for over 30 years, Fraser has multiple successful food ventures and was a key player in the effective implementation of the food services for the Grande Prairie Winter Games 2010 as the Operations Manager.
Rod Duhamel
Contract Advisor at Large
Hailing from Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Rod has over 25 years in the Food Service and Hospitality business and is excellent at organization and logistics planning and strategy.
Rod is well versed in the area of quality assurance and control as they relate to the catering and hospitality ensuring that the customer is well taken care of and always satisfied.
Exquisite Food
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Simply the best cuisine you could ever expect no matter the size of the event!
At M.L.E.C. 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. A healthy diet is the basis for a well-functioning body. Food is the source of energy for all of our bodily functions and directly affects how our bodies and minds function in every stage of life.
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.
BREAKFAST
LUNCH
DINNER
DESSERTS
VEGETARIAN & GLUTEN-FREE
Committed to Quality
You Can Be Assured We Are
We understand the extreme importance of proper nutrition and providing high-quality food to our guests.
M.L.E.C. 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
Hailing from Nova Scotia we offered our excellent food services for 18 years as
COMPASS ROSE
Testimonials
What Others Are Saying
They say your horn always sounds best when someone else toots it!
“Richard 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 Construction
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
