Our History

Lancer Catering is the catering division of Lancer Hospitality. We have a 20+ year history in the food service and catering business.

Lancer Hospitality is owned by company founders Glenn Baron and Steve Craver. Mr. Baron and Mr. Craver have been friends since junior high school and business partners since 1979. Their first enterprise together (not counting shoveling driveways in high school) was creating and running Blue Bell Ice Cream, an ice cream vending company that at one time included 125 ice cream trucks that visited Twin Cities parks and neighborhoods on warm summer days. While the two no longer own any ice cream trucks, their business has grown to include retail food and beverage service in college and corporate cafeterias, K-12 schools and large public venues.

Clients
Our corporate clients include Thomson West, Medtronic, 3M, Seagate, Honeywell, The University of Minnesota, American Express and many others. We also cater hundreds of events each year at our exclusive venues, Edinburgh USA, Minnesota Zoo, Science Museum of Minnesota, Como Park Zoo and Conservatory, Minnesota State Fair Coliseum and Lake Waconia Event Center. We are experienced in catering events for groups as large as 10,000 guests.

Lancer provides dining services to colleges, secondary schools, charter schools and day care centers with on-site kitchens at Century College, Inver Hills Community College, Anoka Technical College, Dunwoody College of Technology, Saint Hubert School and Hmong Academy. Lancer also has a large K-12 and Day Care Food Service division, preparing lunches daily for our K-12 and day care clients.