Costco Catering and Party Platter Menu + How To Order (2024)

Looking for easy catering and party platter options? Costco has got you covered. Costco offers a variety of party platters, sandwiches, and prepared meals that can easily feed a crowd of any size. The Costco catering menu is perfect for all budgets, and mixing and matching food options for the perfect party is easy.

Update: I have added a PDF version of the Costco Catering & Party Platter Ordering Form

Before I get too far into the article, Costco doesn’t actually offer catering, at least not in the traditional sense where a group of professionals come to your event and provide food service.

Costco’s catering is actually premade meals, party platters, and sandwich trays that are extremely affordable and convenient. You will have to go to your local Costco location to pick up the food, but that is the trade-off for the low prices.

Serves: 16-20

The Costco Croissant Sandwich Platter is another all-time classic. Each party platter tray has 10 croissant sandwiches that are cut in half, and will include 3 sandwich varieties:

• Chicken and Provolone
• Roast Beef & Cheddar
• Ham & Swiss

Serves: 20-24

The roasted chicken and swiss roller platter at Costco is a fan favorite and has been a staple of Costco deli for many years. The chicken swiss rollers include:

• Lavash Flatbread
• Cranberry cream cheese
• Sliced tomatoes
• Roasted chicken
• Swiss cheese
• Green leaf lettuce

The chicken and swiss roller wraps are light, refreshing, and easy to eat and are essentially chicken wraps that are cut into individual slices. Super easy and convenient chicken wraps platter.

If you are like me and haven’t heard of Lavash Flatbread, it’s similar to traditional flatbread but is softer and meant to be folded or “rolled.”

Serves: 16-20

Costco meat and cheese party platter may be a simple deli tray, but it packs a punch. Each meat and cheese party platter tray comes with 1 pound each of sliced roasted chicken, black forest ham, and roast beef, in addition to 10 slices each of cheddar cheese, provolone cheese, and swiss cheese.

All of this with a side of Dijon Mustard. Essentially this is the croissant sandwich without the croissant. The meat eaters will appreciate this one.

I have listed the recommended number of people each party platter serves, but you should know how that number is determined.

This number isn’t how many people the party tray can feed and fill up, but instead how many individual portions are in the tray.

The croissant sandwich party tray serves 16-20 people. Well, there are only 10 whole croissant sandwiches in each party tray which means 20 half sandwiches. There is enough for 20 servings but not enough food to feed 20 hungry party guests.

These Costco party platter trays are meant to be served as part of a spread and not as a complete meal.

One downside to Costco catering menu is that it cannot be modified, and substitutions can not be made. You can’t trade out the roast beef in the croissant sandwiches for turkey, and you can’t swap the shrimp platter for Costco shrimp ceviche.

Costco makes what they make, and you buy it if it works for you and your party.

Costco is still fairly antiquated when it comes to ordering from their catering or party platter menu. All orders will have to be done on pen and paper and in-store.The party platters cannot be ordered over the phone or online.

If you want to fill out Costco’s party platter form at home, feel free to use our downloadable printable pdf version.

Fill out the form with the desired party platter order information and your contact information and drop it into the slot on the kiosk.

You will need to fill in your name, membership number, phone number, pick-up date, and pick-up time.

Here is aPDF version(10/07/22 Version) of the Costco catering menu and party platter ordering sheet. Feel free to print this and fill it out at home before dropping it off at Costco.

Costco doesn’t change their party platter offerings very often, but please confirm that your local Costco has the same catering food menu.

Yes, you can try Costco party platters before buying the whole tray. While Costco doesn’t offer free samples, 3 of the 4 party platter menu items are sold in smaller individual or 2-person serving sizes at the deli. They are the:

• Roasted Chicken Croissant Sandwich
• Swiss Rollers
• Shrimp co*cktail

As noted on the order form, Costco does request 24 hours notice for catering orders, but from my experience, as long as the order is put in the day before, it should be ready the next morning.

Even if you were to hand in the form 10 minutes before closing on Friday night, the party platters should be ready Saturday morning at opening. YMMV!

The one exception may be for exceedingly large orders that cannot be fulfilled in a timely fashion.

It is possible to pick up multiple packs of their premade items to cater for your party.

The options will be limited, but some great options will be the Caesar salad, Asian chicken wrap, Quinoa Salad, Chicken Salad, Shrimp co*cktail, and Cilantro Lime Shrimp co*cktail.

Costco catering menu is great for large parties, but the food isn’t necessarily the most elegant and doesn’t bode well for smaller, more intimate parties.

Here are some great choices if you are looking for party options that are more sophisticated or designed for smaller gatherings.

The vegetable platter with ranch dip is the ultimate party food and can be found in Costco’s produce section for $11.99.

The platter includes 4 pounds of broccoli, cauliflower, carrots, bell peppers, snap peas, and a delicious ranch dip.

I often get asked if Costco even sells fruit bowls or fruit trays, and of course, the answer is yes! Costco’s fresh fruit bowl is another easy, ready-to-go party option. The 3-pound bowl of fresh fruit will vary by season but will usually include grapes, strawberries, pineapples and melon.

Each bowl costs $10.99

You can also find premade cheese and fruit trays at Costco. Each tray costs $4.99 a pound and includes grapes, strawberries and/or blueberries, aged cheddar cheese, and aged gouda cheese. The fruit and cheese trays are simple and super easy to lay out for a party.

Each tray contains about 3 and a half pounds of cheese and fruit and costs about $17.

Costco’s fresh caesar salad sells for $3.99 a pound. It contains everything you need to whip up a quick salad, including chopped romaine lettuce, garlic and cheese croutons, shredded parmesan cheese, caesar dressing, and fresh lemon wedges.

You can pick up a pack in the premade meals section of the deli for about $9 each, and each package serves about 6 small side salads.

A direct alternative to the Costco Shrimp co*cktail Platter is theCilantro Lime Shrimp. The Cilantro lime shrimp can be found in the premade meals area of the deli and sells for $10.99 a pound or about $15 per pack.

The shrimp is delicious, and each pack serves 6-8.

Smoked Salmon is always a nice treat and is perfect for parties. Costco has a fewdifferent smoked salmon options, but the easiest option would be theFoppen Pre-Sliced Smoked SalmonVariety Pack.

Yes, you will need a membership to order from the Costco party platter menu. The membership card will need to be shown when entering the warehouse, inputted on the catering order form, and shown at checkout.

It is not possible to order any of the party platter items or sandwich trays without a membership card.