You run the window. We’ll run the paperwork.
Quote private gigs the day they ask, plan festival weekends day by day, and load out each morning from its own list.
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For food trucks that cater weddings, breweries, office parks, and festivals — not another POS for walk-up orders.
Better Cater runs the booked side of the truck: gigs with a date, a headcount, and a deposit. Your service window keeps the register it already has.
The DM economy
Gigs come in by DM, text, and a guy who knows a guy.
The brewery DMs on Instagram. The wedding comes through a text from last summer’s client. The festival sends a vendor packet with a deadline. None of it lands in the same place, and every quote starts from a blank note on your phone.
brewery DM — never answered!!
festival load-in 7a — packet says WHERE?
propane × how many for 3 days?
Quote it before they cool off
A real quote for the wedding, the brewery, the office park.
Your menu is already in Better Cater, priced per guest or as a flat package. Answer the DM with a branded quote and deposit terms the same day — and the date isn’t blocked until the deposit says so.
Three days, three plans
The festival weekend, planned day by day.
Friday, Saturday, and Sunday each carry their own estimated counts, prep numbers, and load-out list. Saturday doubling doesn’t touch Friday’s plan.
Load the truck — again
One buy for the weekend. A load-out list per morning.
The shopping list totals the whole weekend across all three days — tortillas, pork, propane. Then each morning’s load-out list is just that day’s share, so Sunday’s truck isn’t carrying Friday’s mistake.
Loaded before dawn, parked by noon — a load-out list for every morning.
Built for the way truck gigs actually work
Private gigs, festival weekends, and the prep in between.
Quotes & invoices
Answer the DM with a real quote the same day — deposit terms included.
Events & calendar
Every festival day and private gig on the same calendar — and no double-booked Saturdays.
Menus & packages
Your menu priced per guest or as flat packages, reused on every gig.
Shopping & packing lists
One buy for the weekend, and a load-out list per day.
Recipes & food costing
Know the margin on a $9 taco before you park the truck.
Online paymentsComing soon
Clients pay the deposit online, and the date is blocked that much sooner.
Built for trucks that outgrew the clipboard — a wedding one Saturday, a three-day festival the next.
From inquiry to load-out
One gig, start to finish — every step reads from the one before it.
- A brewery DM turns into a quote.
- A signed proposal turns into a booked date.
- A booked date turns into prep counts, a shopping list, and the morning’s load-out.
- A finished gig turns into an invoice — and a margin that says whether it was worth it.
Book bigger food truck gigs without the binder.
Quotes out the same day, festivals planned date by date, and a load-out list for every morning.
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