Speaker 1: 0:00

What's up Denver event professionals? Welcome back to another episode of the Denver Nace podcast. My name is Jared Judge, I'm your host and music director of Extreme Strings Electric Violins and I am joined here today exclusively on location at Footers, catering with sales coordinator Erin Young. Welcome to the podcast, erin.

Speaker 2: 0:19

Thank you. Thank you for having me.

Speaker 1: 0:22

Of course, thank you for having me. Of course, thank you for having me. And for those of you who are watching the podcast, we have this delicious spread of a charcuterie board and three different cocktails that Erin is going to take us through on a journey as I interview her and get to know her and Footers Catering more. So thanks for preparing this.

Speaker 2: 0:40

Oh, our pleasure. Absolutely. You can't come to a catering company without having a little bit of a snack right, and I think we should get started on a drink.

Speaker 2: 0:48

I think you're right I think that's going to make the podcast go really well. Okay, well, we have three cocktails that are featured here at Social Capital, our venue in Arvada, and these are seasonal. So when you book with us here at Social Capital, these are some of the cocktails that can be on your menu. So we have the Butterfly Lemonade. The Wild yes, it's a nice purple color. We have the Wild Colorado Mule.

Speaker 1: 1:15

Very nice.

Speaker 2: 1:16

And then the Spiced Watermelon Margarita. What should we start with? Should we start with that one?

Speaker 1: 1:21

Yeah, let's start with the margarita.

Speaker 2: 1:22

Let's do it Okay, so cheers Should we start with?

Speaker 1: 1:23

that one. Yeah, let's start with the margarita let's do it, okay.

Speaker 2: 1:25

So cheers, all right, cheers, I love it Cheers To events in Colorado, to events in Colorado.

Speaker 1: 1:29

Ooh, that's refreshing.

Speaker 2: 1:30

That's refreshing, that's tasty.

Speaker 1: 1:32

We were supposed to have a pool party at my apartment complex today, but it got shut down because of the rain. This would have paired perfectly with it.

Speaker 2: 1:49

Really our wool. We'll pretend like we're at a pool, okay, and cheers again, yes, really refreshing. I'm a fan of anything spiced and spicy, so this is great.

Speaker 1: 1:54

Yeah, that's lovely really good flavor, and the garnishes are all beautiful too. In this one there's a nice jalapeno slice, the other it looks like there's a a flower yeah, an, an edible flower.

Speaker 2: 2:05

Is that sage in the last one? Yes, good job.

Speaker 1: 2:08

Thank you. Yes, I happen to have had a few drinks in my life.

Speaker 2: 2:13

Me too yeah same All right.

Speaker 1: 2:16

Well, why don't we start off? If you could just kind of give us a little background about yourself and Footers Catering, like, what does it do? It does a lot. So start with you and then the company.

Speaker 2: 2:26

Start with me. Okay, great, um, I am a third generation native, grew up in Colorado, um, from Littleton area, and I truly knew I was meant to be in the event world, probably as a child. Um, there's a story of me as a child like going around my neighborhood and putting flyers in all the kids' mailboxes with an event day that I had planned of like a full time schedule of laid out activities, and so I always knew I was going to be in the event world somehow. But right out of college I did property management and I got to work at some of the Denver's most amazing and really incredible apartment buildings. I jumped over to commercial real estate for a year and helped open a building there and I decided that I needed to use probably more of my creative side and along my entire career I truly wanted to be in events and do some part of events and catering and I was able to get a job here at Footers and I had wanted a job here at Footers for quite some time.

Speaker 2: 3:35

I grew up knowing about Footers Catering because they did my siblings' weddings. They have done multiple people that I have known here in Colorado and, given that we are a business that started as a restaurant over 40 years ago. We knew a lot about footers and so that kind of leads me into who we are. And we started as a restaurant over 40 years ago. So Jimmy Lampato started the company and people just loved him and his food so much that they asked him to do catering for weddings and baby showers, and so we rolled into a catering business and about 14 years ago Jimmy's son, anthony, and Anthony's wife, april, bought the business from Jimmy, and so we are a second generation family-owned business. We very much have a family feel here. We are known for our company culture and part of our culture is really working together as a family and loving what we do.

Speaker 2: 4:31

So in December of 2019, this beautiful building that we are in right now was for sale and we decided it was a great opportunity to join the venue world. We have done catering for so long and have done such a great job in that area that we wanted to expand. So through COVID, we were able to keep staff members on to transform this space and really build out this space. This used to be a sports line, so it was embroidery for jerseys, and they actually still do embroidery and they're very close by in the Arvada area, but we bought the building and transformed the space and now we're a beautiful, big venue that we run footers catering out of. So yes, that's a little bit about me and a little bit about us.

Speaker 1: 5:19

Yeah, well, that is awesome, that. That is like a rich history both for you and for the venue. And I'll just touch a little bit more on the venue because you gave me the full tour and I was blown away. And I was kind of blown away not just by how gorgeous the venue is from the customer side, but really from the employees, like even the way the space is designed. I could tell that whoever designed the space cared about the people that was going to work here.

Speaker 1: 5:44

Yes, from just how organized everything was, how easy it was laid out, how it featured you guys at the forefront of everything, even from like the poster of I forget what you call it the Jimmy Bucks. Yes, good memory, yep and you showed me that there's a space where, at every day, from 1230 to 1, is that right? 12?

Speaker 2: 6:02

to 1230. Yeah, 12, from 1230 to 1, is that right?

Speaker 1: 6:06

12 to 1230, yeah, in our culture room Catered lunch for the employees. You literally have to put down your laptop and stop working and just enjoy the family experience and good food.

Speaker 2: 6:14

Exactly.

Speaker 1: 6:14

And I noticed the Jimmy Bucks call-out of some of the employees on the wall there, which is really cool.

Speaker 2: 6:20

Yes, we have a featured Jimmy Buck of the month. We feature some of the top Jimmy Bucks. Yeah, I'm sorry. Please continue. That's awesome.

Speaker 1: 6:31

And for our listeners, Jimmy Bucks, are like kind of a recognition system where employees of Footers can recognize other employees for something that they did or were noticed doing right.

Speaker 2: 6:41

Absolutely yeah. So we have a section on the footer skatering website that we you can um it's all about culture and you can find the Jimmy bucks there and we get to hop on and write a Jimmy buck If we so. We have nine core values here at footers and if we see one of our fellow employees exhibiting one of those nine core values, um on site or here or truly anywhere, we get to write them in Jimmy Buck and then they are recognized. Anthony reads them aloud in our Tuesday lunches. We have the most team members here on Tuesdays, and so it's a really great opportunity to recognize one another and honor one another. And yeah, and thank you for recognizing that not only from a client standpoint, but behind the scenes I think that truly just signifies how well we are treated as employees and how much they value us as individuals, that our space is very unique and thought out.

Speaker 1: 7:37

Yeah, for sure, and I'm thinking about it because I'm a solo entrepreneur. My apartment has a room. That's my office and it's like you know, when you're in the weeds and things it's kind of hard to think about. You know, am I building a company culture right now? How do you feel like this company? And why have they made that kind of front and center? Why did they start with that?

Speaker 2: 8:00

Yeah, great question. So, first and foremost, I will say it's very intentional. I think that Anthony and April that's part of the whole MIBE. I was explaining MIBE to you as we were touring Stands for Make it Better Every Day. It's our sister company. Anthony created it truly to help companies build intentional cultures and heart-led leaders and it's a very intentional process and so it's very thought through and I know that Anthony and April are just so passionate about creating a place that people love working and want to work and I can truly say I love what I do.

Speaker 2: 8:42

I love working here, I love being able to come in and see the team and we have so many amazing activities surrounding just that culture building. We do a footers family vacation together every year, so we go to Mexico, so we do that. That is a lot of just downtime together that we can hang out before we go into our busy season. We do things like Summer Olympics, so we split up into teams that get a little competitive. It can be really fun, but we head to a park nearby and we do a lot of fun games and this is also an opportunity for us to bring on the entire staff. Sometimes, you know, our staff only are on-site at events and they're not always here at the building. But I will say we also have a culture club, so that's a big part of making sure that we're staying intentional about building our culture. And our culture club is amazing. There's a group of individuals from all different departments that are part of our culture club and they meet once a week and they truly just dive into how can we make this culture better, how can we be inclusive? What fun activities.

Speaker 2: 9:53

So Dylan is Chef. Dylan is in charge of lunch fun, so he does some really fun, creative things. He had us split up into groups a couple of weeks ago and we were. He has played kind of us play kind of a fun game. If, if we were a car, like, what kind of car would we be? And it's really great that again, we have people that are intentionally doing things to make sure that we are always taking care of our employees and that we feel valued and seen and, um, yeah, so lots of fun, fun things. We also do a lip sync battle. Oh, that's fun. Yes, um, tons of fun. And I'm not competitive at all in it, just kidding, I am a little bit. I mean my title, my fun title is dancing queen. So I feel like with that title I kind of have to defend that a little bit for sure and like prove my, prove that I I have that ability to be a dancing queen Absolutely.

Speaker 2: 10:45

So that's another fun, like really fun culture event that we do. A couple months ago we went to a Rockies game. We did a big training here at Social Capital for all of our employees that's. Another piece of us is that we have such a high standard and really value what we do and have high expectations for how we are on events. So we do all of our own in-house training and so after our training we all went to a Rockies game and had a lot of fun. So there's there's so many fun things always happening. It's not like months that like nobody knows what. You know what. When the next event is. There's always some something fun going on and being planned and we're always hearing about upcoming events.

Speaker 1: 11:27

So yeah, that's awesome. Yes, you mentioned your, your chef and you. On this grand tour that you gave me, I got to walk through the walk-in freezer and the kitchen area and again, it was just totally organized. Everything was in its place, and you even mentioned that kitchens and catering companies from around the country come and study this kitchen for the way that things are set up here. How like. It just seems like you guys are all about systems yes right, you have a everything has its place.

Speaker 1: 11:55

Yep, there's a schedule for everything even like absolutely fun is planned out not that that makes it feel inauthentic, but like there's a system for building culture, right, right, how, like? Where did this focus on systems come? And then what is the result of that focus on systems for the end client?

Speaker 2: 12:14

Yes, um, I will say it probably comes from 40 years of trial and error and not, you know, learning and my being we have that saying my being make it better every day. So, really learning from 40 years of experience and knowing that we have to stay very organized, very systematic with certain things, because we can have events truly all over Colorado in one day. And I think that, me being very type A, I would feel like it would be chaotic a little bit if we didn't have good detailed systems in place to know, you know exactly what is going on which truck. That, you know, is obviously our priorities to make sure that our guests are getting hot and fresh food and they're getting exactly what they have worked so hard to build this beautiful menu. And so making sure and, yeah, I would say that the result of having a really detailed system is just having really amazing events, making sure that it is smooth. We want to take as much off of our client's plate as possible so that they can enjoy other aspects of the planning.

Speaker 1: 13:25

We are here to help relieve some stress, help them along the way, and I think that that really staying very organized, systematically and having those things in place really helps to set everybody up for success and make it a smooth event from the client standpoint, from our team standpoint and yeah, that's awesome, very cool.

Speaker 2: 13:45

Feel free to take a pause to take a drink.

Speaker 1: 13:49

I was going to say I feel like we need to go into the butterfly lemonade how about that sounds good?

Speaker 2: 13:51

okay, cheers, cheers. And it's this beautiful purple color edible flower. Oh, I like this I do too. This reminds me of summer on the patio summer on the patio, so were at the pool. But now we're on the patio. Now we're back on the patio. Now we're on the patio.

Speaker 1: 14:05

Drying off.

Speaker 2: 14:06

Yes, I like it. This has lavender lemonade and I will say I feel like lavender is having a moment right now and I love it because I'm a huge lavender fan and so having a featured butterfly lemonade with lavender is pretty cool.

Speaker 1: 14:21

Oh yeah For sure, pretty cool. Oh yeah for sure, very tasty.

Speaker 2: 14:23

my wife is a huge fan of lavender and anything yes, same too bad she's not not here enjoying that yes, darn it, she'll have to come back absolutely do you, uh guys, host any like public facing events here at social capital? We do not. Are you talking that they would be able to like purchase a ticket and come? Yeah, that kind of thing, to my knowledge, we have not done that yet. Our clients rent the space for specific events and they truly have their own own guest lists, but as far as a public event, to my knowledge that has not happened yet.

Speaker 1: 15:01

Okay, um, and you mentioned earlier, there was a conference that MIBE runs every year. Yes, heart leadership, heart leadership.

Speaker 2: 15:09

Yes, it is so special I was able. I didn't mean to interrupt.

Speaker 2: 15:14

I'm sorry, yeah, I was explaining to you that a couple months after I started I was able to attend one. It was held here at Social Capital and it was two and a half days of speakers and really diving into who we are as individuals and how we show up at work and kind of why we show up that way and just being able to open our hearts more. I think that our, our industry is so we're, you know, we're working with people on the biggest days of their lives and some of the most special occasions, and so it can definitely bring out some emotions and like for sure, I think that being in touch with just who we are as a whole person is a very big part of the whole MIBE conference. And, again, just like digging into a little bit deeper, of like why we show up the way we do and different leaders get to come.

Speaker 2: 16:11

Tommy Spalding wrote a book, the Heart Led Leader, and he was here signing books and he gave an incredible, incredible talk and I will say I walked away from the conference like I felt like it was life changing. Yeah, it was very special, it was very deep. I mean there were moments we cried together, we laughed together, we became so close.

Speaker 1: 16:32

Oh.

Speaker 2: 16:33

So yeah.

Speaker 1: 16:34

Kind of like going to a Tony Robbins conference or something.

Speaker 2: 16:37

Yes, and it's like so motivating. There's a very motivating part and people really leave changed and enter into their workplace a little bit softer, and I think that that's probably really needed in our industry for sure, but in industries across the board, I feel like a little bit more heart stuff instead of head. I don't know. I I used to think that I needed to like put on a business front.

Speaker 1: 17:06

I need to like just be business erin, and I think that part of flitters is like we want the whole erin yeah, that's awesome I love yeah um, because I I have noticed that too, like in the events industry, it is go, go, go, it is go, except maybe like a week in december, january, and then it's like, oh, let's prep for next wedding season. Yes, so I know that I noticed myself tending to get very like let's go, transactional minded in some senses, and I have to remind myself like you're a creative musician, like this shouldn't just be all about generating leads and closing deals and all that, how would you say, I guess is a great transition to what do you kind of do here at Social Capital and how do you embody that heart-centered focus?

Speaker 2: 17:50

Oh, wow. Well, I tend to be like a little bit more on the like carry my heart on my sleeve, um, so it's not really like that difficult for me to show up with my, with my heart wide open. Sometimes it's very open, um, but yeah, I think that just being vulnerable and authentic and making sure that I really am taking the time to check in with myself and see how I truly, truly am because it's so easy to put on a smile and be like, oh, I'm fine when maybe I'm like running a little thin that day or just feeling you know a certain way, so I do like that. This is, this is a space, a very safe space, to come vulnerably and authentically and to be able to talk about things and and share, share our hearts.

Speaker 1: 18:44

That's awesome. So you, you uh, primarily like work with clients on a daily basis. Is that what you do? Yeah, fantastic, and you give them the same tour that I went on.

Speaker 2: 18:54

Yes. So the tour. The tour happens when they come in for a tasting or if they just happen to be in the area. We always love for for our clients to stop in, say hi and yes, we give them the full behind the scenes. We're very transparent and I think that's important. That comes with that like authentic piece is just being very transparent about. This is this is who we are, this is how we operate. We want you to see the behind the scenes. I know that that would be so important for me planning a huge event, knowing where my food is coming from, seeing that behind the scenes. So they really get the Wizard of Oz kind of behind the curtain. Who's running all of this? And we get to. Yes, it's so much fun.

Speaker 1: 19:41

For sure. On a side note, are you going to see Wicked when it comes out in November?

Speaker 2: 19:46

Oh my gosh, I have seen Wicked probably four times. Wow, I used to be a, I used to do. I had my hand a little bit in the acting scene here in Denver. Okay, that's cool and being the dancing queen. I love dancing, but I love anything theater and I love Wicked. That's awesome. I love it. Have you seen it?

Speaker 1: 20:06

I have not. My wife has seen it. She saw it on Broadway once when she was in high school and then got to meet. Some of the cast came out and hung out with the high schoolers Because they were on their choir tour or something. So she's really into it, as is her best friend from elementary school. They're just big theater nerds together. She can sing every song, and then our Friday night activity tends to be let's open up a bottle of wine, put the musical theater anthology books on our piano rack. I will play piano and she will just sing her heart out. And Wicked is on the menu almost every week wow yeah, it's so fun that's amazing.

Speaker 2: 20:47

I feel like I need to go to your house for a concert. I'll bring a cocktail yeah, bring the cocktails. I'll bring the cocktails and then in the dancing and you guys provide the, the singing and the piano playing yeah, for sure.

Speaker 1: 20:58

I mean, you just were talking about Pull Back the Curtain, wizard ofz. Yeah, and wicked is coming to the dcpa, uh, so that's right, they're touring. And then there's that new movie with ariana grande, yes, as elphaba, I believe. So, yes, I'm excited I am too.

Speaker 2: 21:14

I never, I didn't personally I didn't really envision her as that, and when I saw the some of the commercials and she seems really really great in that role, oh yeah, so I'm excited yeah, me too I love it well, it's a fun little side track that's a side track. I love a side. Does that lead us into this wicked good? Cocktail our wild this one was. This is our wild wild colorado mule very nice wow yeah that's great.

Speaker 1: 21:46

That's really good. I'm glad we saved that for for the last yeah yes, I love a good mule of some kind.

Speaker 2: 21:56

This is a fun twist and I think that it's really tasty, yeah what is the the fruit?

Speaker 1: 22:01

is it raspberry or cranberry? I can't really tell. It's good, whatever it is it's a great fruit yes, it is sorry you would ask me should I memorize the descriptions. I said don't even bother, it'll be fine it's a beautiful fruit and really tasty yes, it is. I could see this also working well in wintertime too.

Speaker 2: 22:23

I think it's blackberries. Yes, I do agree. Wait, hold on. So we had the pool. We were at the pool with the margarita. We were on the patio.

Speaker 1: 22:33

Yes, and where are?

Speaker 2: 22:35

we with this Social Capital Social.

Speaker 1: 22:37

Capital. We are at.

Speaker 2: 22:37

Social Capital Events located in Arvada, colorado. Yes, on capital, we are at social capital events located in arvada, colorado yes, on wadsworth, on wadsworth, come see us.

Speaker 1: 22:45

What do you speaking of fun things to do? What?

Speaker 2: 22:47

do you like to? Do here in colorado oh my gosh, I'm such a colorado girl. Being a native, you know I do the traditional colorado things. I would say hiking is my favorite. I love hiking almost every morning in the summer I try to do north table mountain, just the hill part of it. Have you ever been there? Yeah, I have okay, so you know that brutal hill that just gets your like right at the beginning, and it's yes switchbacks and everything yeah, well, yes, just it is so hard and I just use that as a leg strengthening.

Speaker 2: 23:23

So I would say hiking. I'm a big fan of just anything that's outdoors and fun Park days. Jazz in the park is always fun. I like being outside, I like long walks.

Speaker 1: 23:38

On the beaches of Colorado, on the beaches of Colorado.

Speaker 2: 23:41

I ski a little bit. I grew up skiing, I don't see much anymore, but truly I love a good margarita on a patio. Nice, I'm pretty much known for dancing and loving margaritas. I mean, I did tell you I had to have a margarita. Yes, if we are doing the podcast, so and we do have a margarita here we do Among other things.

Speaker 1: 24:01

That's awesome podcast, so, and we do have margarita here we do, among other things.

Speaker 2: 24:06

That's awesome. So do you live kind of in the golden area then, close by? Yeah, I grew up in Littleton. I actually don't. I don't live too far from where I grew up, so I'm in the Littleton area at the moment. I have lived downtown, I've lived Highlands area, so, yeah, I've kind of lived all over. I haven't lived in Arvada yet and I would love to make my way up here. I love the vibe of Arvada and it's obviously very close to my amazing job. Yes, which would be nice, but like Old Town Arvada, there's a lot going on up here oh for sure, um.

Speaker 1: 24:38

I hang out in Old Town pretty often. Some weekends you may even find me playing violin on the street there.

Speaker 2: 24:44

No way, yeah, wait what days.

Speaker 1: 24:47

I don't really plan them out. It's just kind of you don't when the vibe strikes and I'm like I'm going to go play some music in Old Town.

Speaker 2: 24:53

That's amazing. Which street do you stand on?

Speaker 1: 24:56

It's the main one, that's the pedestrian one.

Speaker 2: 25:05

Okay, main one, that's the pedestrian one. Okay, um, right next to schoolhouse awesome, yeah, okay well shoot me a text next time you're there and I will come be your fan club. Okay, I'll bring some friends, we'll cheer you on oh, that's awesome no, that's really cool. Yeah, have you ever gotten business from it?

Speaker 1: 25:16

Yeah, I bet. Actually, this past weekend I played a wedding at Flagstaff House that came because I brought my violin to Old Town. They like heard me play. It was the mother of the bride. She was just like in town going to Flight's Wine Cafe which is at the end of the road, heard my music, came over to me, actually called her daughter, put me on speaker as I played, and then she was like isn't he amazing?

Speaker 1: 25:43

and then asked me for a contract for the wedding wow, yeah, that's really cool yeah, because, like marketing, we think of marketing is just so like, oh, put a, pay some money to wedding wire or put a Facebook ad out there, but no marketing happens all the time oh, absolutely yeah.

Speaker 2: 25:59

I've given my business card out in like a grocery store before oh that's amazing. Yes, like you just see random conversations or for you, I mean, you have such an incredible talent to be able to show that off and give a little sample.

Speaker 1: 26:11

Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 2: 26:11

I'm sure that that's really helpful.

Speaker 1: 26:13

Yeah, for sure.

Speaker 2: 26:20

Like, you have to experience it, and that's also probably why you guys do amazing tours and tastings because you have to experience it. Yes, absolutely. I know that I would definitely not want to hire somebody without having a little bit of knowledge and experience with them.

Speaker 1: 26:33

It's very helpful, for sure and that kind of leads me back to your role as sales coordinator Is that correct Yep. And what does that exactly entail? Is that mainly just like we're working with clients building up their events and writing contracts, making sure everything goes smoothly?

Speaker 2: 26:48

Yes, yeah. So we are really with them through the entire process them through the initial sales call at the very beginning, where we truly it's just like I get to know you learn about their, them and their event and what their vision is for their, what they are planning and building a custom proposal and building their vision in menu form. We also have, I should say this is a great time to say we have an incredible culinary team and our chefs are so brilliant and so creative and they come up with some incredible stuff. But not only do we have an amazing menu, but we can customize and build off of that, like outside of the menu that we offer and it makes it so special because it really is unique to each person. Um, but yeah, so, so I help build their, their dream menu, what they would like, and we tweak kind of along the way. It's a flexible and very fluid process and then we we bring them in for a tasting, which is such a fun part. It's very important again to have experience and truly kind of that hands-on behind the scenes tasting their menu, making tweaks, giving us feedback. We can customize items. So we have them in for the tasting and then from there again. We're just truly with them through the rest of the process.

Speaker 2: 28:10

We do a walkthrough about 30 days before, so we all come together.

Speaker 2: 28:15

Usually it's the planner, the planner's involved, the venue representative, our clients and we do a walkthrough of the venue and that's the time that I feel like everything kind of falls into place.

Speaker 2: 28:27

We really lay everything out. And another really amazing thing with us here at Footers is that when you book with us, it's kind of a BOGO deal you get a two for one. So not only do you get me as your coordinator, but we also have a producer that comes on and she is truly my right hand, just my logistics specialist. She's the detail queen, princess, and she does all of the all of the logistics um works through everything needed for making sure that we execute in in a very smooth way. So they they also joined me on the walkthrough. So we do the walkthrough and then it's event time, it's go time and it's what we worked so hard for and that's the best part to be able to get to that end piece and like serving them their meal after months and sometimes years or, you know, a very long time of working together yeah, to be able to see it all come together and truly serve them on such a special day and at a special event and honoring how hard they worked, it's pretty amazing.

Speaker 1: 29:32

Yeah for sure. And one thing we didn't even mention was that there's a whole visual side to what you guys do here too. Thing we didn't even mention was that there's a whole visual side to what you guys do here too, because we on that tour I saw like a rental facility and there was like crafting supplies about that, and how does that come into play here?

Speaker 2: 29:49

yes, yeah, so we do have a design team, steph and Aaron. They are incredible, amazing. They do so much creative work and they can do anything from custom signage, interactive pieces. We have done, um, very unique things. We, one of our events a couple of years ago, had a slide for the slider station, so they created custom graphics, um, custom vessels, so centerpieces. They do beautiful floral work as well, so they are really incredible and something that we're really lucky to have here.

Speaker 2: 30:26

So, again, that one-stop shop, we really want our clients to be able to come to us and get as much off of their plate no pun intended as possible. So, yeah, that design piece is really important and really special that we have that. But, yes, we also work with the rental companies here in Denver and we can help coordinate rentals. That's a big piece that we want to help take off the plate. That is one thing that my producer does is she will help place the rental orders, make sure we have all the right quantities again with the logistics and making sure that all of that looks good. In-house, we do have a couple of packages here that we can offer as far as China packages go glassware. So that is also something in-house that we offer.

Speaker 1: 31:14

Okay, that's awesome. I'm wondering is there anything about footers or social capital, or even yourself, that people should know that I didn't ask about?

Speaker 2: 31:26

Man, I would just say that, if it wasn't obvious, we love what we do and I think that that is so important and would be probably my biggest piece of advice to anybody listening.

Speaker 1: 31:40

Love what you do.

Speaker 2: 31:41

Because if you love what you do, we really believe that that's going to show in the work that we produce. And when we walk in the building, when I walk in the building here, I can truly just look at everyone around me and think, wow, this is so incredible that we all really love what we do, yeah, and have such a passion for it. So it is very special. What we have here is very special, and I am so, so blessed to be able to call this my work family and my work home and to be able to serve people and help them plan really amazing events.

Speaker 1: 32:15

That's awesome and I could tell, like what you're saying, it's, it's infectious. I could tell from the moment I walked in that you loved what you do, you love this space, and it was infectious. I was thinking to myself.

Speaker 2: 32:27

I wonder if they're hiring. Oh my gosh, Thank you. So it's great.

Speaker 1: 32:33

And it's really a joy to work with vendors like yourself who love what you do. It's not just you're doing it for a paycheck. Let's get it done and get out of here. Yes, so that's great.

Speaker 2: 32:43

Thank you, Erin.

Speaker 1: 32:44

Thank you so much for being on this podcast. If our listeners would like to learn more about you or Footers Catering or Social Capital, where could they go online to find more about them?

Speaker 2: 32:53

Great question. Footerscateringcom will have all the info, so we would love to help you out fantastic and plan an amazing event.

Speaker 1: 33:01

Yes, and you guys are on social media facebook, instagram absolutely yes.

Speaker 2: 33:04

Please find us on instagram, facebook, linkedin linkedin yes, check out our mibe section as well.

Speaker 1: 33:11

Social capital is also on there, so you'll find all the information there fantastic and to our listeners, thanks for tuning into another episode of the Denver NACE podcast. We will be hosting our next event June 11th at the Denver Art Museum. I will be sponsoring playing some electric violins, so enjoy some tunes there. And we'll be hearing from a great speaker on the power of referrals, so check that out. At nacedenvercom, that's-a-c-e denvercom. All right, thanks for tuning to another episode of the denver nace podcast. Go crush your next event yay, cheers.