About
The operating system for modern catering.
Caterforia is a single platform for the whole catering business: proposals, menus, events, deliveries, payments, and an AI layer that pulls real weight. One login. One codebase. Every record exportable.
Why catering software needed a rebuild.
Most catering operators run their business out of five tools and a stack of spreadsheets. Quotes drift from invoices. Menus drift from recipe costs. The crew app does not know what the CRM knows. And the “AI” on offer is usually an FAQ bot in a chat window.
The alternative has been: bigger integration budgets, more Zapier, more reconciliation. That does not solve the underlying problem. The underlying problem is that catering needs software that reflects how catering actually runs: prep lines on a clock, off-premise logistics, allergen compliance, payroll on tight margins, clients who change menus 48 hours out.
Caterforia is built around that reality.
Built by people who've run the crew.
Chefs, catering directors, kitchen managers, sales leads, delivery crews. The people who shaped Caterforia have lived every one of those jobs. They have written BEOs on the back of a prep sheet. They have rebooked a wedding menu 48 hours out. They have watched a 150-head corporate drop-off go sideways because a spreadsheet rolled over at midnight.
That is the operating voice behind every decision in this product: where a field belongs, which number deserves a warning, when to let the operator override the default. The product is opinionated because the operators who built it earned those opinions the hard way.
How we build.
- Operator-first thinking. Every workflow is designed for the person who is running an event that night, not the person who configured the app last quarter.
- AI that does real work. Drafts proposals, forecasts ingredients, answers inbound inquiries, reads a photo of your pantry. Not a chatbot in a bubble.
- Data that is always yours. Every record, every file, every attachment is exportable any time. No upsell gate on your own data.
- Pricing that lets you try the whole thing. Catering OS for $1 a month. Add AI when you are ready. No forced trial clock.
What is next.
- Essentials. The full catering operating system, $1 a month, no AI. In market now.
- Premium. Unlocks the AI layer: proposal drafting, Chef Chat, ask-your-business-anything, pantry vision, demand forecasting.
- Enterprise. Multi-location rollup, single sign-on for your team, custom domain, 50-state tax, marketplace.
Get the operating system running in your kitchen.
Start at $1 a month. Add AI when you are ready. Cancel in two clicks.