About Us
Impressions Catering and Events is not your typical catering company.
We are proud to be one of the only caterers in our area that offers private, complimentary tastings so you can experience your personal menu options before your wedding day or event!
Our Mission
It’s simple. We aim to serve unique and delicious food that is comfortable and familiar to you, but with a twist that makes you look twice. We present our food in unconventional and esthetically pleasing ways, and provide the best service with a personal connection, no matter what.
Impressions Catering and Events exists to be a leader in the catering and event industry. We strive to use and provide the highest quality ingredients prepared with the strictest of standards, and delivered in an exceptional and remarkable fashion. Our goal is not to meet our customer’s expectations, rather to exceed them each and every time.
It all begins with an idea.
Everything that we do is customized to your needs for your event. Impressions Catering and Events can provide rental items such as tables, chairs, and linens along with decor items and sourcing floral. Our team of event specialists want to make your event stress free.
Our Core Values
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Being the best at what we do requires us to operate with complete honesty with our customers, team members and fellow vendors.
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As an industry leader, we attempt to look at every event, display, menu item, and all aspects of catering and event producing as not only a person endeavor, but also an opportunity to define the cutting edge; not just follow it.
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From our relationships with our customers and fellow event professionals, to the quality of the products we provide, we will strive to do all that we do following the Golden Rule. We will do unto others as we would have them do unto us.
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Impressions will strive to outdo ourselves each and every time. We will better ourselves through education, listening, and examination of ourselves, our product, and our process in order to make your event worthwhile.
Who we are.
Greg Hicks has always loved being around food; preparing, cooking, and creating innovative presentations displaying different types of cuisine. In high school he got a taste of what catering small parties was like. When his parents’ friends hosted parties, they gave Greg the opportunity to run the kitchen and replenish food, giving him a small taste of what it was like to be a caterer. Days after Greg married Patsy, they moved to Charleston, South Carolina where Greg attended Johnson & Wales University. While at school, Greg dove a little more into the world of catering and worked at the College of Charleston where he catered for thousands for campus events as well as for presidential parties and dinners.
Greg and Patsy moved back to Tennessee, and Greg works in many different food service and culinary positions and was even asked to do catering on the side. While working for a major food distributor, Greg saw what caterers were buying and preparing, “I thought that there was a way where catering could be so much better than what I was seeing.” Through much prayer, Greg and Patsy decided to open up their own catering company. In February of 2001, Impressions Catering was born. Greg explained, “Our intention, like most startup businesses, was to still work another job while the business was growing; until the company was large enough to where we could support ourselves.” Impressions grew so quickly that two months, Greg was able to stop working elsewhere. The company has continued to grow over the past 19 years.
In 2008 and 2009, Impressions Catering began to feel the weight of the recession. The corporate business that sustained the company started to dwindle. This gave Greg and Patsy the opportunity to dig deep into focusing on weddings and doing more innovative displays and presentations. Greg said, “We rebranded and rebirthed the face of Impressions Catering.” As the company began to regain momentum, Greg had the opportunity to attend his first CaterSource conference in conjunction with the International Caterers Association in 2011. He came home from the conference with an arsenal of knowledge and a new burning passion to provide his clients with exciting food trends and innovative presentations. Over the years, Greg has become a part of the education team and even a presenter at the CaterSource conference, teaching caterers around the country how Impressions Catering is run. Not only is Impressions Catering striving locally, but the company has brought together many caterers from around the nation and Canada to learn first hand how to do things the Impressions Catering and Events way.
