Support Local Food Systems with Your Catering Commitment

As a catering company committed to sustainability and community support, documenting your local sourcing practices isn't just good ethics—it's good business. This Local Sourcing Commitment Form template helps catering businesses formalize their pledge to work with local farmers, set measurable ingredient targets, and build transparent relationships with their food supply chain.

Whether you're responding to client RFPs that prioritize sustainability, applying for green business certifications, or simply strengthening your brand's farm-to-table credentials, this template captures all the details that matter: percentage targets for locally sourced ingredients, specific farm partnerships, seasonal menu adaptations, and ongoing commitment to supporting regional agriculture.

Perfect for food service professionals who value transparency

This template is built for catering companies, event food services, corporate dining providers, and hospitality businesses who want to demonstrate—and hold themselves accountable to—local sourcing standards. It's equally valuable for sustainable business networks, farm-to-table advocacy groups, and green certification programs that need a standardized way to collect commitment pledges from food service partners.

The form walks through current sourcing practices, sets clear percentage targets by ingredient category, identifies specific farm and producer partnerships, outlines seasonal menu requirements, and captures the business rationale behind your local sourcing commitment. You'll document everything from your definition of "local" (50 miles? 100 miles? Same state?) to how you'll communicate these practices to clients and event attendees.

Streamline sustainability reporting with Paperform

With Paperform's conditional logic, the form adapts based on your business type and current sourcing level—asking relevant follow-up questions without overwhelming new participants or experienced farm-to-table veterans. Use calculation fields to automatically tally your total local sourcing percentage across categories, helping you visualize your impact at a glance.

Once submitted, you can use Stepper (stepper.io) to automate what happens next: send confirmation emails with your commitment summary, add signatories to a public directory of participating businesses, trigger quarterly check-in reminders, or integrate with your CRM to track progress over time. You might even set up workflows that notify local farm networks when a new catering partner joins the commitment, opening doors for new supplier relationships.

For organizations managing multiple catering partners or chapters, Paperform's team features and reporting tools make it easy to track aggregate commitments, identify trends in local sourcing adoption, and celebrate collective impact across your network.