Alonti Cafe & Catering

Alonti Cafe & Catering, now most often presented as Alonti Catering Kitchen, is a Houston‑based catering company that concentrates on feeding offices, meetings, and corporate events. It operates as a business‑to‑business caterer, taking orders online and delivering directly to workplaces instead of relying on traditional street‑front restaurant traffic. The menu is built around familiar office catering staples such as sandwiches, salads, pastas, hot entrées, breakfast items, and boxed lunches, and is available through the company’s own site as well as third‑party ordering platforms.

The brand began in Houston in the mid‑1970s as a deli concept created by the Mandola family. That first shop, opened around 1974, laid the groundwork for a regional name in office‑oriented foodservice. Over the following decades, especially through the 1990s and 2000s, Alonti expanded beyond its original location into multiple units across Texas and select other major markets. Many of those stores were located in or near downtown office towers and busy business districts, serving breakfast and lunch to white‑collar customers and building relationships with corporate clients that later carried over into catering.

A notable milestone in the company’s evolution was its shift from being known primarily as a café and deli to operating as a production‑driven catering provider. As corporate customers increasingly favored delivery and online ordering, Alonti invested in centralized kitchens and repositioned itself around high‑volume office catering rather than walk‑in café traffic. That change over roughly the last five years has been reflected in the Alonti Catering Kitchen branding and in the way the business now shows up in directories and ordering marketplaces, with a clear emphasis on prepared‑for‑delivery meals instead of traditional dine‑in service.

As of April 2024, public listings and catering marketplaces show active Alonti Catering Kitchen facilities operating in Houston and Dallas. The exact store count is not disclosed, but current visibility points to a modest network of production kitchens rather than a large national chain. These kitchens tend to be located in office and industrial districts, positioned to cover dense employment centers with reliable delivery rather than to attract heavy street retail traffic.

For landlords, brokers, and developers, Alonti functions more like a production and distribution user than a typical restaurant tenant. Its business is centered around efficient kitchen space, proximity to corporate office clusters, and ease of delivery access. The company’s long history in Texas, its focus on recurring corporate accounts, and its deliberate, operations‑first posture make it a steady, specialized occupant for commercial kitchen or light‑industrial space in markets where daytime office populations remain strong.