Can the word "cater" be followed by an object before a preposition?

Just as the question title says, can the word "cater" be followed by an object?

I know what the word means and the prepositions that typically follow it. I just want to know if the construction where the word precedes a noun is acceptable. I've looked everywhere, from dictionaries to English forums for answers, and it seems no one has covered this topic before. My coworker said it should only strictly be followed by a preposition as it is an intransitive verb.

However, several articles even from native English sites are breaking this "convention", such as this one here:

It’s why they try to cater services to hunters, like this bird cleaning station at the Hawthorn Suites in town.

The excerpt was taken from here: https://www.kfyrtv.com/2021/11/02/hotels-have-been-very-pleased-hunters-staying-sw-north-dakota/

So, thoughts on this?

Edit: as suggested by one of the commenters, I am going to expand on the question a bit. I was looking for specific transitive usages where the catered content acts as an object similar to how the word "tailor" is used. This is slightly different from the transitive usage of the word to refer to providing food at an event.

The transitive use is acceptable to many people and is possibly becoming more so.

Merriam-Webster, Cambridge Dictionary, Collins, and Macmillan Dictionary all describe cater as transitive or intransitive. In fact, I could not find any dictionary that did not list both the transitive and intransitive meanings.

I could not tell by looking at these dictionary entries whether the transitive use is newer (although the Merriam-Webster entry suggests that this is so), but I suspect that this may be the case. Take a look at this ngram:

The earliest uses of "cater the event" appear to be in the 1960s and the phrase's popularity has risen steeply since then.