ABOUT INTENTIONAL ESPRESSO
Portland Coffee Catering You Won't Have to Think About
Guests should notice the coffee.
Never the logistics.
When you ask an event planner about coffee, you rarely get an answer about flavor. You get questions about logistics, where does it plug in, will the line block the doors, and who do I call if the cart doesn't show up. Those are fair questions, and they're the ones we built this company to answer.
Intentional Espresso is a premium mobile coffee catering company serving the Portland metro. Since 2017 we've learned that the coffee is the straightforward part, and that everything around it is what decides whether an event feels looked after. So we take that on ourselves, well before the day, and leave you free to host.
HOW WE WORK
What Happens Before We Arrive
There's a moment at nearly every event when everyone wants coffee at once. The break between sessions, the doors opening, the lull after the toast. It's the moment that decides how the whole thing felt, and it's usually the one planned for last.
Each of our carts serves 50 to 75 drinks an hour. So when you tell us 400 guests and a half-hour window, we'll tell you honestly that one cart won't do it. We'd rather say that up front than watch a line form.
Setting up asks very little of your venue. We only need a standard 120v 20amp outlet. No water hookups or special infrastructure required. A level 8×8 space is ideal, and we can work in 4.5×8 when the room is tight.
There's no truck to park, either. That's how we end up serving in ballrooms, hotel lobbies, and office suites fifteen floors up — rooms a coffee truck could never reach.
Everything we own lives in one building, and so does everyone who works here. Carts, equipment and inventory sit under the same roof as the office in Tigard, so every event is packed from the same shelves by a team that works side by side. Whoever's behind the bar at your event was briefed by the person who booked it.
We arrive early, and we taste and adjust the espresso on site until it's right — coffee behaves differently in every room. We're ready well before your first guest is, and afterward we pack up and leave the space exactly as we found it. If you noticed us at all that day, it was probably because one of our baristas learned your name.
BRAND ACTIVATIONS
Your Brand, Down to the Cup
If you work on brand teams or with agencies, you already know how rare it is to get someone's full attention. The coffee bar is one of the few places at an activation where a guest stops moving, waits about ninety seconds, and holds something with your name on it. We treat those ninety seconds as the whole point.
That can mean a custom cart wrap, branded cups and sleeves, your logo printed into the foam, or a menu written in your product's own language. We've built these for Nike, Intel, Meta, Walmart, Jordan Brand, Lululemon, Columbia Sportswear, On Running, David Yurman, the Portland Timbers and Vestas, among others. Well before the event we confirm the artwork, the sizing and the exact color match, because "close enough" on someone's own logo is never quite close enough.
And when there's no branding involved at all, the cart still looks like it belongs. Polished, modern and quiet, so that nothing about it competes with the room you spent months designing.
2017
Serving Portland Metro
1400+
Catered
Events
5
270+ Google Reviews
WHY WE STARTED
Founded by Randy and Katie Matheny
Intentional Espresso was founded in 2017 by husband-and-wife team Randy and Katie Matheny. What began with a single mobile coffee cart grew out of a simple belief: coffee could do more than serve a crowd. It could welcome people into a room, create a natural pause, and give guests a reason to connect.
The name Intentional Espresso reflects that purpose. Every part of the experience, from the first planning conversation to the final drink served, is designed with care. Randy leads coffee, operations, and event execution. Katie leads sales, marketing, and the
client experience. Together, they focus on the details that make a planner's job easier and help an event feel considered rather than simply catered. Today, Intentional Espresso is a Tigard-based event hospitality company providing mobile coffee catering for corporate events, conferences, brand activations, ongoing
workplace programs, weddings, and private celebrations throughout the Portland metro.
The company has grown beyond its first cart, but Randy and Katie's approach remains the same: plan honestly, prepare thoroughly, serve warmly, and make the host's job easier. After every event, they still ask what worked, what could be improved, and what the client needed that the team had not yet thought to offer.
That practice has shaped Intentional Espresso into more than a mobile coffee catering company. It is a strategic hospitality partner that uses coffee to create connection, reduce the host's mental load, and make people feel genuinely cared for.
Coffee is the vehicle. Hospitality is the product. Community is the outcome.
THE DETAILS PROCUREMENT ASKS FOR
Already Taken Care Of
We're fully licensed and insured, including a catering license with the county health department, and we can have a certificate of insurance to you the same day you ask.
We're an approved vendor at the Oregon Convention Center, and we work directly with Levy and with Food Fleet.
We only need a standard 120v 20amp outlet. No water hookups or special infrastructure
required, which is what allows us to serve indoors where trucks can't.
Our coffee comes from Thornton Family Roasters, just up the road in Beaverton.
We run multiple carts for high-volume events, and we serve a number of offices and
hospitality partners on a standing weekly, monthly or quarterly schedule.
Trusted across Portland by TriMet, Portland General Electric, OHSU, Kaiser Permanente, Portland State University, the Portland Timbers, Legacy Emanuel, Vestas, JLL, Schnitzer Properties, the OSU Food Innovation Center, Adidas, Arc'teryx, Ferguson Wellman Capital Management, David Yurman, On Running and Waverley Country Club — and across the metro by Nike, Intel, Meta, Walmart, Jordan Brand, Lululemon, Columbia Sportswear, Platt Electric, Tektronix, Reser's Fine Foods, Lam Research, Pacific Foods, Milgard and Perlo Construction.
We've staffed events from 50 guests to 5,000. A single cart serves 50 to 75 drinks per hour, and for larger events we deploy multiple carts and baristas so the line never becomes the story. For a 100 to 150 guest event, most clients invest somewhere between $1,100 and $3,500, depending on the service level and how long you'd like us there.
Intentional Espresso Company
8900 SW Burnham St, STE E7, Tigard, OR 97223
(503) 983-7762
