Arena Food Service

08/27/2024

On behalf of all at Arena, we invite you to join us on Wednesday, September 25, from 5:30pm-7:30pm, as we celebrate our newly renovated Central Illinois production facility and corporate office!

View our newly renovated production facility, meet our team and learn more about our services.

08/26/2024

Arena Food Service, located at 3086 Normandy Rd. Springfield, IL, will be hosting a Ribbon Cutting/Grand Opening on September 24th at 4:00 p.m.

08/25/2024

Our Central Illinois catering team recently executed a brunch for 1500 guests at the BOS Center in Springfield, IL. Contact us for all your social event needs!

08/19/2024

Strong start to the first day of classes in the newly renovated cafe space at Kankakee Community College !

08/05/2024

Happy August Work Anniversaries to the following employees:

Kim from Chicago on August 1st--1 year
Wanda from Springfield on August 6th--6 years
Merle from Springfield on August 9th--3 years
Megan from Taylorville on August 13th--3 years
Shamari from Springfield on August 14th--1 year
Sharonda from Steger on August 15th--2 years
Fantasia from Park Forest on August 18th--1 year
Bajoria from Richton Park on August 23rd--3 years
Richard from Manteno on August 29th--1 year
Jaela from Homewood on August 30th--1 year

Thank you to all of you for all that you do.

08/05/2024

Happy August Birthdays to:
Ieesha on August 20th from Springfield
Sharon on August 27th from Springfield

07/27/2024

Sean Keeley, a well-known name in the Springfield dining scene, is the new director of catering for Arena Food Service. Keeley spent the past two...

07/25/2024

Congratulations to Sherri, Vice President of Arena Food Service, on her 25th Anniversary.

06/12/2024

05/24/2024

Our home office has moved. We now have our catering kitchen and home office in one building. This is so exciting. Shaun did an amazing job with this project. Congrats to Shaun, President and CEO and Sherri, Vice President for fulfilling a long dream. We still have some projects to work on, but finally glad to be in the building. We can’t wait to show it off to everyone real soon. We are now located at 3086 Normandy Road.

05/13/2024

We want to welcome our newest member to our management team. Tara, from Kankakee. 9 weeks into her position and she is jumping right into her role and taking on some extra duties and doing great. Welcome aboard, Tara, we are so happy to have you be apart of our team.

05/12/2024

Happy Mother’s Day to all our Mothers out there. Clients, Employees, Managers, Customers and Friends
We hope all of you have a very special day.

05/08/2024

Ieesha making some awesome flavorful flatbread pizzas for our cadets today! Thank you for all your hard work making lots of those and all your other great food you make everyday.

04/03/2024

Happy April Anniversary to two of our awesome managers.

Inez-she has been in the management role for 5 years on April 15th and does an amazing job serving the senior community at Springfield Supportive Living.

Dee- he has 14 years in the management role on April 25th and does great work with all the cadets and officers at the Illinois State Police Academy.

Thank you both for your dedication and commitment to our customers!

03/30/2024

Happy Birthday Shaun Moore! We out here in the field all wish you the best day and hope that you don’t have to put up with any of us today!😁 We wish you peace and relaxation.

03/29/2024

Tanya was rolling out some very good pizzas today.

03/14/2024

We would like to give a huge shout out to Sharon, employee for 19 years. She just received the Gold Award from the Sangamon County Health Dept. Thank you Sharon for your commitment and dedication to meeting the high standards that are required and keeping our customers happy. We appreciate all that you do.

03/08/2024

Thank you to Inez and her team for the excellent commitment to meeting the health dept high standards and receiving the Gold Award.

A big congratulations to our Arena Staff, Inez, and Crew for once again receiving the Gold Award from Sangamon County Public Health. This award is given to those who demonstrate their commitment to food safety by maintaining award requirement inspection scores and having no violations.

03/01/2024

We want to wish Carrie and Tonya all the best on their new venture. Combined they have given Arena Food Service 18 plus years of dedication and compassion to our customers. We wish you both all the best.

02/14/2024

Brandon cooking outside on the grill for Valentine’s Day, 80 Bacon Wrapped Filets for the residents at Springfield Supportive Living.

02/09/2024

We wanted to give a special shout-out to Tonya with 9 years of service, Lance with 6 years of service and Kyle with 15 years of service with us. They all have today, as their anniversary date with us. Thank you Tonya, Lance and Kyle for your dedication, compassion and hard work to your facilities and all that you do to make our customers happy!!

02/09/2024

Happy Birthday to Sherri, Vice President of Arena Food Service. Everyone out here in the field wishes you a very happy day. We all hope you get celebrate your special day all weekend long.

02/05/2024

Happy February Birthdays to Ellissa from Buffalo on the 2nd and Sherri from Springfield on the 9th.

02/05/2024

Happy February anniversaries to the following:
Vivian from Springfield--23 years
Tonya from Manteno--9 years
Lance from Manchester--6 years
Kyle from Springfield--15 years
Jennifer from Saint Anne--1 year

We have some long term employees this month and we are very proud of their dedication and commitment.

02/01/2024

We would like to wish a very special congratulations, to Vivian, our catering head chef. Today is her 23rd anniversary with Arena Food Service. Vivian, thank you for you commitment to excellence.

01/04/2024

Happy January Birthdays!
Dayonna on the 5th
Ashley on the 7th
Derrick on the 17th
Brandon on the 18th
Mellisa on the 19th
Armani on the 29th

01/04/2024

We would like to give a big shout out to our employees that have January anniversaries.
January 1st-Lane from Springfield with 2 years
January 3rd- Ieesha from Springfield with 1 year
January 10th- Jamie from Beaverville with 1 year
January 17th- Kathy from Park Forest with 2 years
January 22nd- Felicia from Calumet City with 5 years
January 31st-Tanya from Bradley with 2 years

12/09/2023

Wanted to do a special shout out to the lady on the right, Sharon from Springfield. Today is her 19 year anniversary with Arena Food Service. Thank you Sharon for your dedication.

12/05/2023

We would like to recognize our employees that have anniversaries this month:
3rd--Brandon from Springfield has been with us 4 years
9th--Sharon from Springfield has been with us 19 years
31st--Michael from Springfield has been with us 3 years

Thank you to each of you for your continued dedication to our customers and clients. We appreciate all that you do.

12/05/2023

Happy December Birthdays to:
4th--Steve from Springfield
7th--Kyle from Springfield
29th--Emily from Springfield