Jimpa's by Catfish Jim
Welcome to JimPa's Catfish and Chicken! Visit our menu at www.JimPasCatering.com In 2011, we shifted our focus to catering and JimPa's was established.
JimPa's Catering developed out of over 20 years of serving diners in and around Smyrna and Kennesaw, first as Uncle Bud's then as Catfish Jim's. Our loyal customers were not thrilled that we closed the restaurant, so we reopened a small take-out location in Kennesaw. In 2015, founder, Jim "JimPa" Schrampfer, passed away from cancer. His wife and son took up the helm and continued the legacy he cre
07/22/2024
Feeling peckish? Let Jimpa's Catering turn your hunger into a party! 🎉🍽️ Cater your birthdays, holidays, corporate events, even your wedding! We promise, our food is more exciting than your office potluck. 😜 . Click here to feast with us! 👉 https://spt.to/7MED49
07/20/2024
🔥Get ready, Kennesaw! Your taste buds are about to take off✈️! Indulge in our delectable Moster Chicken Tenders Meal 🍗🍴, marinated, seasoned, and fried to perfection. Served with our cozy dinner rolls and your choice of 2 regular sides and dipping sauce🍯🌶️. Choose Jimpa's Catering for good food and great service. Visit us today!
07/17/2024
Hey Y'all! We've been nominated for Best of Georgia! Now we just need your votes to win again! You can vote once a day through the end of the voting in October. Here's the link to our page: https://gbj.com/kennesaw/food-drink/jimpa-s-catering
07/17/2024
Get your taste buds dancing with our famous, made-from-scratch hushpuppies at Jimpa's! 👀🍴They're the talk of Kennesaw, folks! Step in, we promise, they are worth the trip. 😋 . See you soon, food lovers! 📍
07/15/2024
Who said you can't have your cake and eat it too? 🍰 With Jimpa's Catering, you can have a feast and not lift a finger! Birthdays, holidays, weddings, or corporate events - we've got you covered. Delicious food, quality ingredients, and top-notch service are on the menu! 🍽️ So why wait? Let's make your event unforgettable! 👉 https://spt.to/6ZEDYD
07/12/2024
🎉 Seafood lovers, rejoice! 🦞 Dive into a half-pound of our golden fried Clam Strips Meal at Jimpa's! 🤤 Paired with any 2 sides of your choice. 🍟🌽 Quality ingredients, top-notch service, and flavors that'll keep you coming back for more! 📍Kennesaw. Don't just drool, come in and taste the magic! 🍴
07/09/2024
Catch the flavor wave at JimPa's! 🎣 Dive into our 1 Pc. Whole Catfish Weekday Lunch Special 🐟 Crispy, golden, hand-breaded catfish, paired with our famous hushpuppies, a side of your choice & a refreshing drink 🥤 Quality ingredients, tantalizing flavors and top-notch service! 🍽️ , isn't it time to treat your taste buds? 📍Visit us in Kennesaw.
07/05/2024
🔥Craving something lip-smackingly delicious? Dig into our 4 Pc. Fried Chicken Meal at JimPa's! 🍗😋 Perfectly marinated, seasoned, and fried to golden perfection, served with soft dinner rolls and your choice of 2 sides! 🍟🥗 Quality ingredients, top-notch service, and irresistible taste guaranteed! 👌🏻 Come on down to Kennesaw and experience it yourself. Can't wait to serve you! 🙌
07/02/2024
While the restaurant will be closed July 4th, 😢 you can still get your fix 😃 as we will be set up at the VFW in Acwoth 🇺🇸 for their Freedom Fest selling you favorites…Catfish, Fried Chicken Wings and Popcorn Shrimp 🐟🍗🍤! Open to everyone starting at noon. Come out and have some fun while supporting the VFW Post and Veterans Relief 🫡 ❤️! Fun for the whole family while supporting an amazing organization.
07/02/2024
Celebrate Independence Day in Kennesaw at the annual Salute to America! 🇺🇸 🎆 🎉 July 3rd starting at 6:00pm. On your way to the festivities, stop by JimPa’s and grab you a Family Pack or individual meals 🐟🍗🍤 to enjoy on the lawn while listening to the concert. And grab some desserts like our Peach or Blackberry Cobbler 😋 or our Smores Lava Cake 😛 and sit back and relax!!
JimPa's will be closed tomorrow, June 26th, for lunch. We will be open from 3pm-8pm to hook you up for dinner!
06/15/2024
We will be back and set up in the parking lot of Kostas Chiropractic in Hiram ready to take your order from 2:30-7:00! 😁 We have Catfish, Fried Jumbo Wings and Popcorn Shrimp 🐟🍗 🍤 served with Steak Fries and our famous Hushpuppies! 😋 Come get a snack or tonight’s dinner. 3968 Jimmy Lee Smith Parkway.
06/14/2024
🎉Just in time for Father's Day! Treat Dad with Jimpa's cooked to order food, then top it off with our mouthwatering Chocolate Lava Smores Cake! 😍 It's not just a cake, it's an experience of graham cracker cake, smoked chocolate ganache, drizzled with chocolate and topped with real marshmallow! 🎂🍫 💕
06/13/2024
Hey Kennesaw! 📣Get your concert taste buds ready for the unbeatable flavor of our To-Go meals at JimPa's! Kick off the opening of Kennesaw's new amphitheater with a cooked to order picnic to enjoy the music and festivities. 👌 Visit us for the best quality food and service around! 😋
06/08/2024
Can’t make over to Kennesaw today? We will be set up in the parking lot of Kostas Chiropractic in Hiram ready to take your order from 2:30-7:00! 😁 We have Catfish, Fried Jumbo Wings and Popcorn Shrimp 🐟🍗 🍤 served with Steak Fries and our famous Hushpuppies! 😋 Come get a snack or tonight’s dinner. 3968 Jimmy Lee Smith Parkway.
06/07/2024
Ready for a flavor explosion, Kennesaw? 🎉 Come down to Jimpa's Catering and experience our massive, hand-cut, batter-dipped Onion Rings! 🍴 Perfectly seasoned and crunchy, they're worth every bite. Don't just drool over your screen, visit us today! 📍
06/05/2024
🎉 Get your sweet tooth ready, Kennesaw! 🍪🍨 JimPa's Catering proudly presents the ultimate dessert delight - the Monster Cookie Sundae! Deep-fried golden chocolate chip cookie 🍪, dusted with powdered sugar, topped with creamy vanilla ice cream 🍨, and drizzled with your choice of syrup! 🍫🍮 Ready to conquer this dessert beast? 👹 Join us at JimPa's and indulge yourself! 🤤 📍
06/01/2024
Out and about today? We are set up in the parking lot of Kostas Chiropractic in Hiram ready to take your order! 😁 We have Catfish, Fried Jumbo Wings and Popcorn Shrimp 🐟🍗 🍤 served with Steak Fries and our famous Hushpuppies! 😋 Come get a snack or tonight’s dinner. 3968 Jimmy Lee Smith Parkway.
05/29/2024
Last week we fed the hard working folks at Marietta Public Works with the Mayor and City Council present. 😁 This week we are feeding all three shifts at International Paper in Forest Park. 😋 🍗 🐟 🍤 Staying busy and preparing for our catering adventures next week! Book us for your next event! You won’t be sorry, unless you don’t. 😢
05/17/2024
Hey Kennesaw, feeling hungry? 😋 Dive into our 1 Pc. Catfish Fillet Weekday Lunch Special🐟, hand breaded and fried to golden perfection, served with our famous hushpuppies and your choice of side. A meal so good, you'll be back for more! 🍽️ Come visit us at Jimpa's Catering for the tastiest food in town!
05/12/2024
05/11/2024
Just in time for Mother’s Day 🌹 try our deliciously decadent Chocolate Mosaic Cake! 🎂 This buttermilk cocoa sponge cake creates a mosaic pattern with rings of rich chocolate cheesecake batter. 😋 This cake is filled with a creamy chocolate ganache mousse coated with coffee and cocoa graham crumbs and topped with a light dusting of powdered sugar and cocoa powder. It’s so good! 🤤
05/09/2024
04/28/2024
Try our new Strawberry Cream Cake! 😋 Featuring a strawberry yogurt cake filled with creamy mousse 🍓, garnished with white chocolate curls and dusted with powdered sugar. A delicious 🤤 treat for these beautiful spring days! 🌞
04/26/2024
What does it take to feed 540 hungry Medline Ind. workers??? A lot! 😁 50 lbs of cole slaw, 14 gallons of baked beans, 165 lbs of catfish filllets, 250 lbs of fried chicken, 150 lbs of steak fries, 50 gallons of sweet tea and over 1200 of our famous hand-made hushpuppies. Stick this between 2 other caters and it’s been a very busy week! 😅 No one does it better!
04/20/2024
🎉🍗 Feast your eyes on Jimpa's Catering's 2 Pc. Fried Chicken Meal - Leg & Thigh! 😍 Marinated, seasoned, and fried to golden perfection, with a fluffy dinner roll and two sides of your choice! 👌🍽️ Quality ingredients, lip-smacking good food, and top-notch service await you in Kennesaw! 📍 Don't just drool over your screens, come visit us! 😉 🍗🎉
04/12/2024
Hey Kennesaw! Hungry?🍽️ Get reeled into Jimpa's Catering for our Lunch Special Catfish Slider Meal! 🐟🍔 One catfish fillet cut into three medallion pieces, served on soft dinner rolls, with our famous hushpuppies and a regular side. Thirsty? We've got you covered with a drink of your choice! 🥤🍹Slide on down to Jimpa's Catering today! 😋
04/06/2024
Birthdays, reunions, corporate events, retirements and more 🥳 We do it all! No one does it better! You can’t beat having your feast cooked fresh on-site. 😋 We catered this retirement party at International Paper in Forest Park. 🎉 We put the WOW Factor in your event! Book your next event with us today!
03/30/2024
Something colorfully delicious 🤤 in time for Easter! 🐣 This yummy Sprinkle Cake 🍰 is made with cake-batter-flavored white cake, vanilla buttercream frosting and lots and lots of rainbow sprinkles. 🌈 This cake will have your taste buds doing a sprinkle dance!🕺Try a slice today!!!
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Our Story is Growing
We have a long history, especially in Smyrna and Kennesaw. We started out as Uncle Bud’s Catfish, Chicken & Such in Smyrna on South Cobb Drive in the late 1980’s. It was more of a corporate run restaurant chain with 11 location around Georgia and Tennessee with the Smyrna location as the flagship store, all run by Jim “Catfish Jim” Schrampfer. By the 2000’s, the corporate guys had gone and Jim, with a partner, continued to run the Smyrna and Chattanooga locations. In 2005, Jim decided to scale down and closed the large Uncle Bud’s location to open a smaller, cozier version of his own design, thus Catfish Jim’s on Cobb Parkway was born. During this time, we started doing more and more catering on the side. When the lease was up in 2010, Jim decided to close the restaurant for good and only do catering. Jim wanted to rename the new venture so everyone would know that it was different than the restaurant. Several ideas were tossed around until we landed on JimPa’s Catering.
(When Jim became a granddad at 53, he didn’t feel he was old enough to be called a Granddad, Pepaw, or Pops...after some thought, he was soon lovingly called JimPa!)
JimPa’s Catering was an instant hit with our ability to cook fresh catfish and fried chicken on-site and serve it fresh to multiple shifts and job sites, factories and warehouses all over Georgia for customers like Georgia Power, Home Depot, Coca-Cola, Atlanta Falcons and many more. However, all of our loyal fans were devastated that they could no longer get their catfish fix. After overwhelming response, Jim decided to reopen a small take-out location for them in the Spring of 2011 located on Cobb Parkway a few miles north of Catfish Jim’s location. It was only open for dinner on Friday and Saturday nights allowing the fans to get their fix and time for us to do our caterings. Things were going great until Jim’s unexpected passing in August 2015. The fate of JimPa’s Catering was unknown. After much discussion, JimPa’s eldest son, Jason, decided to leave his 14 year career as a Graphic Designer to take over running JimPa’s.
The one new thing Jason was able to bring to JimPa’s was an online presence. Creating and maintaining a new website, Facebook, Google, and Yelp pages, we began to get traction with new customers and reconnecting with old customers that had lost us in the various moves. By late 2018, we realized we were going to need a bigger boat. We found our new home in the old Huddle House on the corner of McCullum Parkway and Cobb Parkway in Kennesaw. We reopened in October 2019 now offering lunch and dinner six days a week in our new, larger location. Now, no one could have predicted the 2020 pandemic, but we have been hanging in there and are still going strong. We aren’t planning on going anywhere and continue to serve our delicious made fresh-to-order Catfish, Fried Chicken, Jumbo Shrimp and Chicken Tenders...and of course our world famous Hushpuppies!
SMALL PLACE WITH A BIG TASTE!
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2420 Cobb Parkway NW
Kennesaw, GA
30152
Opening Hours
| Tuesday | 11am - 8pm |
| Wednesday | 11am - 8pm |
| Thursday | 11am - 8pm |
| Friday | 11am - 9pm |
| Saturday | 11am - 9pm |
| Sunday | 12pm - 8pm |
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