Solutions / Drop-off catering

Built for drop-off caterers who ship 200 orders a week.

Multi-location stock, route density, driver PWA, customer ETA SMS, and B2B house accounts. Your volume backbone is the software, not the spreadsheet.

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What is breaking, specifically.

Routes that bleed margin when a driver takes the wrong freeway exit

Dispatcher-by-hand routing leaves 15 to 20% of route efficiency on the table. At 2026 fuel and driver wages, that is thousands of dollars a month going to inefficiency.

Stock visibility across locations that should be one number

Your downtown commissary has 40 pans in stock. Your suburban kitchen has 6. A coordinator books a 200-pan morning across both without checking, and Tuesday turns into a scramble.

Net-30 corporate accounts that Stripe alone cannot cover

Your biggest B2B clients want credit terms and consolidated invoicing. They will not split 14 orders into 14 card transactions. You need house accounts or you do not get the relationship.

The parts of Caterforia that matter most for drop-off catering.

All 16 modules are on every plan. These are the ones that carry the most weight for your segment.

Branded B2B ordering with house accounts

Corporate clients order under your brand, on net-30 terms, with consolidated monthly invoices. Promo codes, gift cards, group-order links included.

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Real multi-stop route optimization

Not dispatcher heuristics. Actual route optimization with live traffic, reefer-vehicle matching, and customer ETA SMS when the driver is close.

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Multi-location stock you can trust

Per-location on-hand rolled up to one number. Reorder alerts route to the right manager. No double-counts, no silent shortages.

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House accounts and AR aging

Net-30, net-45, custom terms. AR aging in 30/60/90 buckets. Aging report filterable by corporate parent for procurement escalation.

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Driver PWA that works without signal

Offline-capable route, photo-confirmed delivery, tap-to-complete stops. Syncs when signal returns. Works on any Android or iOS phone.

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Customer ETA SMS, 10DLC-registered

Texts fire when driver is within N miles. Pre-registered campaign so you are not fighting carrier filtering on day one.

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Why drop-off catering operators are moving.

Drop-off operators today are typically running one of three incumbent systems.

CaterZen

Strong on drop-off workflow, weaker on the AI and reporting layer. Customer portal is limited.

FoodStorm

Good ordering front-end, especially for grocery and deli. Driver PWA and multi-location stock need add-ons or external tools.

Flex Catering

Solid for small to mid-volume drop-off; reporting layer and integrations stack thinner as volume scales.

Where Caterforia lands differently

One login across ordering, kitchen, delivery, and invoicing. Not three integrations.
Real margin-per-labor-minute reporting, not just food cost percentage.
Premium AI tier adds proposal drafting, demand forecasting, and pantry vision on the same operating system.

An operator making the move.

Running on FoodStorm

Stew Leonard's

70% more catering orders processed at peak holiday volume.

See what Caterforia adds

Outcome reported publicly

Source-linked on the Customers page. We do not embellish numbers; we lay them out and show what Caterforia would add.

Questions we get from drop-off catering operators.

Can Caterforia handle corporate net-30 accounts?: Yes. House accounts, consolidated invoicing, custom payment terms, and AR aging are all included on Essentials. No add-on.
Does the driver PWA work offline?: Yes. Routes and stops are cached. Drivers mark arrivals and completions offline; the system syncs when signal returns.
Can I list on ezCater or Hungry and still run Caterforia?: Absolutely. Caterforia is the operating system you use behind the marketplace orders. Aggregator orders flow into the same queue as your direct orders via inbound integrations.
Can Caterforia match reefer vehicles to cold-chain orders?: Yes. Every vehicle has a refrigeration flag. Routing will not assign a cold-chain order to a non-refrigerated vehicle.

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Every module on every plan. Cancel any time. Your data is always exportable.

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