Solutions / Venue-based catering

Venue-based catering where the floor plan, the BEO, and the invoice live together.

For operators running exclusive or preferred catering inside one or more venues. Venue rules, calendar conflicts, floor-plan versioning, and capacity tracking on one record.

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What is breaking, specifically.

Venue double-bookings that nobody saw coming

Two couples have the same ballroom on the same Saturday. One was booked through your system; one was booked through the venue directly. You find out 90 days out.

Floor plans that exist in a separate app from everything else

The floor plan is in AllSeated. The BEO is in Caterease. The client signature is in DocuSign. Three tools, three exports, three reconciliations.

Venue-exclusive contract terms that do not fit generic catering software

Your venue has an exclusivity clause, a percentage-of-sale revenue share with the property owner, and a required commission line on every contract. Most catering software cannot model this.

The parts of Caterforia that matter most for venue-based catering.

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

2D floor plans with 15 shape kinds, versioned

Round tables, rectangular tables, stages, bars, dance floors, buffet lines. Save A/B/C versions; active version prints on the BEO.

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Venue conflict detection

Resource-level conflict warnings for assignees and venue rooms. Soft-warn not hard-reject, because sometimes the chef really is doing two things.

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Living BEO with floor plan and contract on one record

Customer picks floor plan, signs contract, views BEO: all in one portal visit, all tied to one event record.

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Planner and vendor CRM

Event planners who book recurring weddings at your venue are first-class contacts, not just individual event data.

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Venue-scoped labor

Some staff are venue-trained; some are not. Scheduling respects the venue qualification on each shift.

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Portal with venue rules surfaced

Client sees your floor plan options, the venue catering restrictions, and the signed contract in the portal. Less "wait, can we do sparklers?" emails.

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Why venue-based catering operators are moving.

Venue-based operators today are often on one of these.

Tripleseat

Strong in restaurant private events and preferred-caterer lists. Floor plans are via add-on integrations rather than native.

Event Temple

Well-regarded in banquet and hospitality venues. Heavier on booking and CRM; lighter on catering operations specifics.

AllSeated and Social Tables

Best-in-class for floor plans and 3D walkthroughs. Require separate tools for BEO, proposal, invoice, and CRM.

Where Caterforia lands differently

Floor plan, BEO, proposal, contract, and invoice on one record. Not five integrations held together with Zapier.
Versioned floor plans that drive the BEO, not floor plans in a separate file system.
Enterprise tier adds custom-domain portal and SSO for planner logins.

An operator making the move.

Running on Caterease

Remington Hotels

Catering operations organized across multiple properties on one platform.

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 venue-based catering operators.

How does Caterforia handle venue-exclusive catering contracts?: Every event record carries an optional venue field with your own rules: exclusivity terms, revenue share percentage to the property, required commission lines on every contract. Contracts template from the venue rules automatically.
Can I run multiple venues on one Caterforia account?: Yes. Multi-location rollup is on the Enterprise tier, with per-location books and a single sign-on across all of them.
Can my client walk through a 3D version of the floor plan?: The 2D version is live today with PNG export and client-collaboration through the portal. 3D walkthrough is on the roadmap.
Can event planners have their own login to see their booked events?: Yes. Portal links can be scoped per planner to show just their events, with token rotation if the planner relationship ends.

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

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