Betty Zlatchin Catering

Betty Zlatchin Catering is a caterer in San Francisco, CA, with a 4.70 rating across 13 reviews. The business describes itself as a catering and events specialist serving the Bay Area for nearly forty years, with work spanning weddings, corporate events, and private gatherings. Its service offering extends past food preparation into a broader event team, coordinating vetted outside vendors to handle tenting, floral arrangements, lighting, entertainment, event design, staging, and transportation. The company traces its start to Betty Zlatchin herself, who began catering out of her home kitchen in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury neighborhood. Her son David Zlatchin now runs operations as CEO, and several team members have been with the business for over twenty years. David grew up in San Francisco and working in the family catering company through high school, then went on to earn a Masters of Public Policy from the University of California, Berkeley in 1999. Before returning full time to catering, he worked as Deputy Director of Communications for United States Senator Paul Wellstone and attended Macalester College in Minnesota. Press coverage of the business has appeared in Style Me Pretty, Martha Stewart Weddings, Brides, Grey Likes Weddings, ABC News, Carats & Cake, Snippet & Ink, Ruffled, and Elizabeth Anne Designs. Betty Zlatchin Catering is also recognized as an SF Green Business. The kitchen and offices sit on Indiana Street in San Francisco's Dogpatch neighborhood, surrounded by a cluster of small green spaces just a tenth of a mile away: The Gears garden, Progress Park, Pennsylvania Avenue Green Space, Minnesota Grove, and Pennsylvania Avenue itself, with the 23rd Street Overhead bridge nearby. With forty years of continuous operation in the Bay Area and a team deeply rooted in the business, Betty Zlatchin Catering draws on long-standing vendor relationships and an in-house staff many of whom have been with the company for decades.