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Catering and events

From quote to delivery for catering and events

Menus are rebuilt for every event, and at 200 guests one portion-size mistake costs more than the margin.

What changes

Every dish is a template with portion size, allergens and dietary flags — reused at any event.

The order carries the event date, guest count and venue, not just a list of courses.

Staff, transport and tableware sit in the same quote as the food.

Your stages, ready configured

The account starts with these production stages. Change them any time from Settings.

  1. 1Sourcing
  2. 2Cold kitchen
  3. 3Hot kitchen
  4. 4Pastry
  5. 5Transport
  6. 6Service

Every stage records who worked on it, and when.

Production stages configured for catering and events
Production stages configured for catering and events

What it looks like on the shop floor

The operator interface is not the manager’s. A worker does not see the whole company — they see their own queue and two buttons.

One tablet in the cold kitchen, one on the hot line, one in pastry. Each chef signs in with a PIN and sees only today's and tomorrow's events that have reached their section. The sheet taped above the range, with jobs crossed out in biro, is gone.

The operator screen: only the jobs that reached their stage
The operator screen: only the jobs that reached their stage

A tablet in the workshop, a PIN for each person

You do not need a computer at every station. A cheap tablet on the wall, next to the machine, is enough.

  1. The operator signs in with a four-digit PIN — no email, no password typed with dirty hands.
  2. They see only the jobs that reached their stage. Nobody has to tell them what is next.
  3. Two buttons: “In progress” when they start, “Done” when they finish.
  4. The job moves to the next stage on its own and appears in the next person’s list.
  5. The system records who worked and at what time — no handwritten timesheet.
Picking a task up: “In progress”, then “Done”
Picking a task up: “In progress”, then “Done”

Order status, live

On the morning of a 180-cover wedding one screen shows the canapés done, the main course in progress and the cake waiting on transport. When the client calls at eleven, you have the answer before they finish the question.

Every order, with the stage it has reached
Every order, with the stage it has reached

A concrete example

A wedding, 180 guests, three courses. You pick the dishes from templates, the system works out portions and cost, and the kitchen gets its tasks broken down by day.

Unit of measure
portion count
Stages configured
6
The product spec sheet, with this trade’s own fields
The product spec sheet, with this trade’s own fields

Four things you will notice immediately

  • A menu is defined once — portions, allergens, cost per head — and the next event starts from it.
  • Cost per portion comes from your own grid, so the margin no longer depends on who wrote the quote.
  • Transport and service are stages with people assigned, not details the coordinator keeps in their head.
  • Two events on the same day stop bleeding into each other: every section sees exactly what to prepare, and for which one.
The price grid, configured for this trade
The price grid, configured for this trade

Your customers can see their own orders and invoices

Every customer can be given an account. They sign in at the same address you do and see exactly what concerns them — their orders, the stage each one has reached, the quotes they were sent, and their invoices including anything unpaid.

  • They see only their own orders and documents — never another customer’s.
  • They can download a quote or an invoice as a PDF instead of calling you for a copy.
  • They see the stage each order has reached — the same information you see.
  • The account is optional: a customer with no email address stays in the register, simply without access.

What if that customer already has an account with another company?

One email address has exactly one account across the whole platform — that is what makes signing in unambiguous. If the address is already in use by another company, the app tells you so plainly when you save, and you have two options: use a different address for this customer (the contact person who deals with you, for instance), or leave the field empty — the customer stays in your register, with orders and invoices, just without app access. Your data is never visible to the other company.

What it does

Reusable templates

Define a product once — with your trade’s own fields — and run any number of orders from it.

Your own price grid

Operations down, variants across, a price in every cell. Quotes become consistent.

Production stages

Each order moves through your stages. Operators pick up and complete; the system records who and when.

Invoices and proformas

Automatic per-series numbering that never repeats. Outstanding balances in one click.

Production reporting

What was made, by whom, in what quantity, and where the flow is getting stuck.

Configured per trade

Fields, stages and the price grid arrive ready for the work you actually do.

Try it on your own jobs

The account takes two minutes to create and arrives configured for this trade.

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