Every stage of a catering booking — costing, proposals, menus, kitchen, staffing, the event and compliance — already written and already used on real jobs.
The cooking was never the hard part. The admin is what finishes people.
Open the actual Packing List Template and Event Run Sheet and judge the standard for yourself. They are taken from the operating system, not recreated as marketing mock-ups.
Not filed by document type and left for you to work out. A job comes in at the top and runs through to post-event review — and at every stage, the paperwork is already written.
A sales workflow for handling a new enquiry, plus the proposal writing guide.
Food cost, recipe costing, staffing, delivery charge, profit margin and minimum spend.
Wedding, corporate, BBQ, canapé, funeral. Written, not blank.
A booking workflow covering what to confirm, record and hand to the kitchen.
Production sheets, prep lists, temperature logs, allergen records.
Rotas, ratios, briefing notes, roles, training log.
Run sheet, delivery and venue access, on-site sign-off.
Risk assessment, method statement, the records that matter.
End-of-event checklist, post-event review, complaints and refunds workflows.
That's the difference between a folder of templates and a system. You stop inventing the admin side of your business, because it's already been invented — by someone who was doing the jobs.
"I've been in events catering for over ten years, and honestly the admin side has always been the thing that finishes me. We're so busy thinking about food, menus, clients… admin is the one thing that makes me pull my hair out every week.
This catering toolkit flipped everything. It's all there, everything makes sense, and you can tell it's been put together by people who actually know catering."
"It looks amazing — everything's right where you need it, and the links to each part of the timeline are brilliant."
It is
It isn't
Both. The pricing tools cover event jobs, private-chef day rates and recurring meal prep. The event and staffing documents matter more if you run bigger jobs with a team; the proposal, costing and compliance documents apply either way.
Yes. Everything is editable Word and Excel — change the wording, drop your logo in, adjust prices and processes. That's the point. You're not licensing something you have to use as-is.
Word and Excel, or the free equivalents. The spreadsheets work in Excel, Google Sheets and Numbers. The portal opens in any browser. Nothing to install.
No. £149 once. No monthly anything, no renewal, no upsell to keep access.
Straight away. You get a link to your own portal, plus a downloadable copy so you keep it permanently and it works offline.
The health, safety and compliance section is written to UK rules and would need checking against local requirements elsewhere. Everything else — pricing, proposals, menus, kitchen and event operations, staffing — travels fine.
No. These are the documents used to run a real catering business, written over years of actual jobs. There's an AI prompt library included as a bonus, but it isn't the product.
Most of it will still fit — a booking is a booking. Some sections will need adapting to how you work, which is why everything is editable rather than locked.
The full toolkit is £149 once. If you want to judge the standard first, the two real sample documents are open with no sign-up.