Potluck Café Society

Connecting people through good food

Our Story

Lasting Community Impact and Mouth-Watering Food

The Potluck Café Society grew out of a “youth-at-risk” employment initiative called Binners Dinners held at United We Can in 2000. In 2001, the Portland Hotel offered to build a café on its premises that would be operated by the Potluck Café Society.

In February 2022, Potluck moved to its new home at 298 East Hastings Street, equipped with a larger, state-of-the-art kitchen. This facility presents new opportunities and greater capacity for Potluck's future initiatives.

Potluck Café Society owns and operates Potluck Café and Catering, a leading social enterprise and Vancouver catering company that serves clients in Vancouver and Burnaby, with 100% of our catering sales going right back into Potluck Café Society, our not-for profit.

It's catering that you can feel good about.

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COMMUNITY IMPACT AT A GLANCE

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2340 hot meals delivered to the community in the DTES monthly.

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500+ hours/month of casual and low-barrier employment for those from the DTES community with barriers to traditional employment.

$10,001

Average monthly income generated by Potluck for community and peer staffing.

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We are proud to say we a part of the Buy Social Program!

Buy Social Canada advances and promotes social procurement by

bringing socially driven purchasers and social enterprise* suppliers

together, building business relationships that generate social benefits

to communities across the country.

Social enterprises compete with traditional for-profit businesses, but use profits to invest in vibrant, healthy communities.

*Social enterprises are businesses that sell goods and services, embed a social, cultural or environmental purpose into the business, and reinvest the majority of profits into their social mission.

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Our Catering Services

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From corporate meetings to celebrations and everything in between, we’ve got your catering needs covered.

Weddings

Let Potluck help make your special day truly memorable. From helping arrange rentals to amazing custom menus, and delicious food, our team can make your dreams come true and create a day that you will remember forever. Potluck does wedding catering right.

Corporate Events

Hosting an event for clients? Organizing an employee appreciation party? Want to make staff lunches easy? We can help! Potluck is there to help you navigate through the planning and execution of a staff or corporate catering events, provide delicious food, arrange rentals, and walk through your event logistics so it all goes off without a hitch.

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Drop-Offs

From birthday parties, celebrations of life, family reunions and anything else you can think of, we can help. Our delivery team can drop off your order complete with serving utensils and you can relax and savour great food.

call us at 604.609.7368 for a FREE catering quote.

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