In Ibadan, Ripples Catering & Events Services is one of the leading events companies in town. It is a locally owned outfit, which provides a combination of events planning with excellent and tasty food at value pricing. Ripples is the answer to an ever-increasing demand for well-organised events and sumptuous meals.
It serves culinary masterpieces to make events truly unique and memorable with aim of providing its clientele, with personalised high-quality catering services guaranteeing satisfaction in the areas of appearance, performance, and taste.
Ibadan, Oyo State capital is the current home office with the plans to establish a Culinary academy for those interested in vocational skills acquisition and restaurants to serve clients outside Ibadan who have been agitating for a place for them to have a taste of our food service anytime and day.
Since 2010, Ripples Catering has been providing full events planning services and on/off-premises catering services for a wide range of private and corporate events. The company has a complete understanding of the expectation and assist from the planning stages to the last details of the event! It also understands the importance of the catering services to our clients and their guests and work hard to gain confidence in our ability to handle this requirement.
Ripples has injected innovations into event catering services, leveraging on our experience, professionalism and passion to deliver on the terms of engagement. In 2018, the company was awarded the ‘Unique Concept in Catering Management’ by Pera Awards; in 2019 and 2020, consecutively won the Event Caterer Award Category by Blingz Event Magazine and in 2021, was awarded The City People Ibadan Young Entrepreneurs Award, Young Entrepreneurs International Summit (YEIS) 40Under40 CEOs Nigeria and Prominent Oyo People (POPA) Award.
Ripples Catering & Events Services is a one-stop shop when it comes to formal/informal and private/public events. It provides catering and event services with guaranteed satisfaction in every detail of the event.
Highly personalised service has always been the company’s hallmark, prioritising customer experience and making it a component of our service delivery. It believes that providing customers with what they want, when and how they want it, is the key to repeat business.
The primary products and services we provide, either separately or as a turn-key package are: • Eat – in Restaurants in 4 locations: Ibadan and Bowen University, Iwo • On/Off-Premise and Indoor/Outdoor Catering Services • Fresh and Frozen Springrolls and Samosas • Read-To-Eat Finger Foods • Indoors/Outdoor Catering Services • Catering Related Consultancy • Events & Wedding Planning • Frozen Foods Supplies • Catering Academy • Corporate Events: End of Year Party, Customers Fora, Induction/Training.
Who is the beautiful and stylish lady behind Ripples? We can tell you. She is called Eunice Adeoye. She is the Chief Executive Officer of Ripples Catering & Events. This brilliant lady is responsible for the shaping of the company through building a team and driving strategy including business development.
She graduated from the University of Ilorin in 2004 with a B.Sc. (Hons) in Computer Science. Her passion and her father’s success story as an entrepreneur spurred her on to resolve never to work for anybody.
Knowing full well that the basic education acquired cannot prepare her well enough for the challenges ahead, she obtained 3 additional diplomas in Events & Wedding Planning and Catering Management from Canada and UK respectively. She has equally attended various entrepreneurship programmes like Tony Elumelu Foundation/Entrepreneurship/SME Development Centre, Sterling Bank, University of Ibadan Centre for Sustainable Developments, Diamond Bank and Stanbic Bank Plc.
Armed with these acquired skills, she birthed Ripples Catering & Events with the support of her husband in 2009 as an Events & Wedding outfit. As at that time, many people were not really interested in engaging events and wedding planners but rather caterers. With her great desire and hands for cooking, she went into full catering services rendering both indoor and outdoor catering services to both private and corporate clients.
Eunice has brought some new innovations and revolutions into the catering business. This earned her a Pera Award in 2018 for her unique concept in catering management. She later went ahead to win the Event Caterer category of the 2019 and 2020 Blingz Event Awards. In 2021, she was one of the 40Under40 CEOs in Nigeria celebrated during the Youth Entrepreneurs International Summit (YEIS) celebrated in Lagos.
Eunice is a certified member of International Events & Wedding Professionals and married with children.
Our divisions
RIPPLES CATERING & EVENTS
Established in 2009, the outfit is a one-stop-shop for all your events and social function needs. It provides a combination of event planning with excellent tasty food to make your events truly unique and memorable.
RIPPLES RESTAURANT
Presently running from 4 locations: 3 in Ibadan and one in Iwo (Bowen University). Conceived out of our clients’ agitation for our presence at their workplaces and request for our tasty meal outside outdoor functions. They want a place they can come at any time of the day to experience our mouth-watering menu.
RIPPLES CATERING ACADEMY
As the desire for glamorous and colourful events increases, so is the need for events vendors to create massive job opportunities and career paths for young school leavers.
The academy is set to train and empower in the rudiments of events and catering service management.
FRESH, FROZEN & FRIED
Ripples finger foods come in 3 variations we call 3Fs: Fresh, Fried and Frozen. The finger-licking small chops are specially packaged in order to maintain freshness and good quality fried and frozen products.
RIPPLES CORE COMPETENCE
According to Eunice Adeoye, Ripples Catering & Events Services has been able to differentiate itself in the competitive market through the APT Approach to business.
APT stands for Appearance, Performance/Professionalism and Taste. A tasty meal prepared by the world’s best Culinary Chef but served by an unkempt waiter will not be touched by any sane client.
APPEARANCE – The saying that you are addressed by the way you are dressed cannot be any less than true when it comes to our approach to our business, waiters’ presentation, table settings and food presentation. The personal grooming of our waiters goes along way to show how responsible we are as an event planning/food service company.
PERFORMANCE/PROFESSIONALISM
One of the hallmarks of delivering excellent customer service is through the performance and professionalism we display. Our performance are measured and determined by the feedback we get from the customers’ experiences. The integrity, attitude and manners of our service staff are crucial to the total perception of our brand.
TASTE – We are experts in understanding how taste is created from a culinary perspective. We bring new platforms to life by translating the techniques and methods used to create authentic and delicious taste experiences. We go to great lengths to understand the core foundation from which customers’ taste experiences are formed, analysing cultural upbringing, life stage and purchase behaviours to deliver on the key areas of taste experience that resonate most with them.
Running the company with her the following management staff.
EMMANUELA OKONKWO, BRAND MANAGER
Emmanuela has a first degree from the University of Lagos and started her career with Fan Milk Plc and later worked with Pathfinder Hotel and Holiday Inn in Ado-Ekiti as a Cashier. She rose to head the Food and Beverages Dept before leaving to join Palm 77 Hotel as F&B Manager. She oversees and supervises the operations, processes and deliveries at Ripples.
TOMI AKONI BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT/EVENTS
Tomi is a digital marketer and holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Ibadan in Communications and Language Art. He worked with Executive Events and Detola Catering Services as Creative Developer and Brand Manager respectively before joining Ripples. With great attention to detail, Tomi oversees the on and off-site events and supervises the activities of various vendors and contact staff.
DAMILOLA MOSHOOD, KITCHEN/PROCUREMENT
Damilola is a graduate of Purchasing & Supply from Kwara State Polytechnic. She has worked in different capacities as Procurement Officer and kitchen supervisor for about 10 years before she joined Ripples. Her transferable skills in procurement and inventories and kitchen aer indeed blessings to Ripples.
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