Certificate of insurance to your facilities team, a bar that is pouring before the first guest arrives, and an invoice your finance team can actually process.
Corporate hosting fails on different things than private events do. Nobody is worried about the garnish; they are worried that building management will refuse the vendor, that the load-in window will be missed, that three hundred people will arrive in twenty minutes and hit one bartender, and that the invoice will arrive in a format accounting cannot process. We run our corporate bar service around exactly those four risks.
Every corporate booking includes the portable bar and styling, full glassware, the complete ice program, premium mixers, fresh garnish, a printed menu we can brand to your event, RBS-certified and $2M-insured bartenders in business-appropriate uniform, and full setup and breakdown. We provide a certificate of insurance naming your company or landlord as additional insured, a W-9, and a company invoice with net terms available for recurring clients.
Post-conference receptions are throughput problems with a ninety-minute window: we pre-batch signature cocktails so the first fifty guests are served in under five minutes, and split the room with a second station if the floor plan creates a bottleneck. Product and tech launches get the same treatment at scale, plus a zero-proof option that looks like everything else so the people driving home are not conspicuous. Firm and company holiday parties get more ice, more glassware and more staff rather than a shortened menu, because ice and glass are what actually fail at two hundred guests. Board dinners and client entertainment invert the whole brief: one bartender, understated styling, wine poured properly, and a bar that reads as part of a serious room.
We send the certificate of insurance and RBS documentation to your building or facilities contact before you have to chase us for it, and we book the freight window and dock ourselves where a building requires it. If your finance team needs a controlled spend we can run drink tickets, a capped tab or a fixed-hours open bar and report the count on the invoice rather than leaving you to reconstruct it. Breakdown is complete and fast — typically fully struck and out within forty minutes of last call — so your team walks into a normal office the next morning.
All-inclusive pricing. You supply the alcohol at retail; we bring everything else. Gratuity is appreciated but never required and never added to your invoice.
These are founding client rates — deliberately below what established Southern California bar services charge, because we are building our calendar right now. Request your exact number in under a minute.
The only thing you buy separately is the alcohol — at retail, in your name, with unopened bottles returnable at most California stores. That is the entire reason our clients spend less than they would on a caterer's bar package.
“Our facilities team is famously difficult about outside vendors and La Barra had the COI submitted before I even asked. Two hundred people, no line, and the floor was back to normal by the time I got in the next day.”
Yes. We issue a company invoice with a W-9 and certificate of insurance attached, and offer net terms to recurring corporate clients.
Yes. We carry $2M liability and issue a COI naming your company or landlord as additional insured, sent directly to facilities.
Yes. We can run drink tickets, a capped tab or a fixed-hours open bar, and we report the count on your invoice.
Yes. That is the entire point of the service — we bring the bar, ice, glassware and mixers and need only a level surface.
We are typically fully struck and out of the building within 40 minutes of last call.
Tell us the date and the guest count and you will have a real price the same day — not a brochure, not a callback next week.