Corporate catering business in deep holiday slump

Perhaps corporate party planners did not get the memo that the recession is over.

This year represents the worst holiday party slump ever recorded by Amrop Battalia Winston’s  annual Survey on Corporate Holiday Celebrations, now in its 22nd year, released in November. Local catering operations confirm the national findings.

“We have seen the same delayed effect of a bad economy that we saw after 9/11,´ said Paul Pellegrino, owner/chef of All Occasions Catering in Fort Collins. “2001 and 2002 were good years for us. Then we had a harsh decline and then a climb back up. Our best…