Who is The Catering Queen™?

Food has always meant love in my family. My mother, Angela Elizabeth, and my grandmother, Ruby Jewel, taught me that a table is where people feel taken care of, and that idea shaped everything I've built since. It's also where my company's name comes from: Elizabeth Jewel Consulting carries both of them with me into every brand I work with. I've spent 22 years in operations, the last decade-plus of it in catering, leading programs at GoToFoods (formerly Focus Brands) and Subway. At Subway, I helped lead the relaunch of the catering experience across more than 20,000 U.S. locations, building branded packaging and a delivery model that positioned Subway as a real player in B2B catering. My name is Jenn Saunders-Haynes, but somewhere along the way the industry started calling me The Catering Queen™. I've shared what I've learned on stages like ezCater's Catering Forum and Food on Demand, and in Nation's Restaurant News, PRNewswire, and PYMNTS. But mostly, I just love helping brands turn catering into something their customers, and their bottom line, actually feel good about.