Stephanie Mclaughlin is the founder and CEO of Hostess With The Mostess LLC; catering to all types of personal and corporate events. She started the company in 2012 while attending New York Institute of Technology's undergraduate program for Advertising and Communication Arts. She decided to continue her education after having her son in 2010, to show him the importance for higher education. Stephanie believes her passion for catering and event planning originated from her upbringing.

She came from a tremendous half Italian and half Irish family, that has large get togethers on a weekly basis and hosted celebrations annually. At a young age, she understood the importance of getting family, friends and loved ones together. She has brought that same homegrown hospitality and care to her business. Hosting and event planning is in her opinion a rather personal profession where she treats every client like family. She continues to focus on showing her son the importance of entrepeneurialship by expressing her passion in the hospitality industry. She strives to make all events, whether 30 or 300 guests, seem intimate while also maintaining quality time with the guests and host is what her business was founded on.

In 2019 Stephanie opened her first Brick and mortar location in Babylon Village NY. The Delica Sea, a gourmet deli open 7 days a week was created for HWTM to have a catering kitchen. HWTM and The Delica Sea now operate hand and hand, and continue to grow with tons of support from their community.

In 2020 When the COVID-19 hit, HWTM & The Delica Sea was able to donate over 3,000 meals to essential workers during the first few months of the pandemic.

In 2021 Stephanie was recognized by the New York State Assembly as a Women of Distinction Honoree.