Jane Hammond Events provides full service catering and event planning services for corporate and large private events throughout San Francisco and the Bay Area. For 25 years we have specialized in cooking with the finest and freshest ingredients, innovative menus and excellent service. We are fully licensed and insured.

For our out of state clients, we specialize in coordinating every detail of complex events.

We design each event to meet our clients' specific needs, ranging from providing food and staff to any combination of the following services:

Who We Are

What makes Jane Hammond Events unique is our love for what we do and working together. We are truly a community oriented company. Many of our staff have worked with us for over 10 years, demonstrating their long term commitment and loyalty. We pride ourselves in treating our clients, as well as our venue contacts, vendors and staff, with personal attention, respect and inclusive participation. Also, most of our service staff have worked with us for a number of years, creating a close knit and cooperative dynamic that adds to the professional and friendly feel of your event.

Our Staff

Jane Hammond, Owner:

Jane grew up in England and has a background in science. She went on to train at the Cordon Bleu in London, and started her catering career in England before moving to America in 1975. Jane taught cooking in the U.S. for several years, and then began her professional catering career. Jane Hammond Events has been growing ever since.

Amy Trapp, Senior Event Manager:

Amy has worked for JHE events for over 15 years and is involved in every aspect of running the company. Prior to joining JHE,  she  graduated from St. Lawrence University, traveled extensively and worked in the political arena.  Amy began working in our kitchen and serving at events and has evolved into our senior events coordinator and manager. Amy brings incredible attention to detail and personal warmth to all our events and clients.

Siân Thomas, Event Manager:

Siân has been with JHE for the past 3 years working as one of our main event managers and coordinators. Siân graduated from McGill University, worked in organic farming and is passionate about environmental issues, spearheading our  greening practices.

Naomi Seidell, Staffing Manager:

Naomi, a graduate of UC Berkeley, has been with JHE since 2005 and is in charge of all event staffing, as well as managing many other details of our events.

Our Chefs

Heidi Hornikel, Executive Chef:

For the past 12 years Heidi has served as Executive Chef at Jane Hammond Events. Heidi has been passionate about cooking since she was 15. She was formally trained at the Culinary Institute of America in New York 1991. Heidi is involved in every aspect of running the kitchen – including menu design, quality control, kitchen staffing, kitchen green policy and most important, she is the JHE team spirit leader.

Rab McKie:

Rab has been cooking professionally for 20 years.  He formally trained at the College of Food Technology in Glasgow, Scotland  1987. Rab has extensive experience in hotels and restaurants, has worked throughout England and Scotland and the US, and has been working with JHE since 2005.

Yukiko Honda:

Yukiko qualified at Johnson and Wales College of Culinary Arts in Rhode Island, 1992.  She has been cooking professionally for over 15 years and has been with JHE for 3 years.

Rogelio Berumen:

Rogelio is a graduate of the San Francisco Culinary Academy in 2002. He has been cooking professionally and catering since.

Going Green

We recognize through our experience in this industry that events can be wasteful of both food and resources and that's why we are fully committed to going green and becoming a more sustainable and ecologically sensitive company. 

Our food is always of the freshest quality because we buy local, fresh and organic when ever possible. We now fully compost and recycle at our kitchen and all events. We have switched to using bio-degradable and compostable disposables. We research and invest in supplying fair trade products, such as coffee, when possible. We are always open to accommodate and work with any specific requests to make any event as waste free as we can.

Community Involvement

When possible, Jane Hammond Events works with non profit organizations, fund raising groups and other needy causes, to provide catering assistance that would be otherwise out of reach. We enjoy contributing our services to the many organizations and causes that make our Bay Area community unique.

We have supported many public and private schools, libraries, children's sports teams, summer camps for kids, blind babies foundation, research on breast cancer, pediatric cancer, HIV AIDS, refugee groups, among many more.

We work with Food Runners, Project Open Hand, Glide Memorial and other local organizations that can safely use any excess food, that might otherwise be wasted.