For high-volume & production kitchens

Prep the whole day, not one order at a time.

Kitchen production totalled across every order on the calendar — batch counts, shopping lists, and packing lists that compute themselves from the events.

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Built for catering production — commissary kitchens, corporate and drop-off caterers, teams pushing hundreds of covers a day.

Not meal-prep subscriptions, not manufacturing runs, not restaurant inventory. Every count starts from the booked orders on your calendar.

The daily add-up

Six orders tomorrow. Someone’s adding them up on a legal pad.

Every order is easy on its own. The job is the total: how many pans of lasagna does tomorrow need, across all six orders, and how much of it can batch together? Do that math by hand every night and eventually a zero goes missing.

The old wayTues: 40 + 120 + 60 + 35 + 90 + 55 = ???
lasagna — 14 pans? recount
romaine — enough?? check walk-in
prep list on the board is from MONDAY

Batch math, done

Headcounts become batches, pans, and prep lists.

Recipes carry yields, so the kitchen report works the batch math out across every order on the day — pans of lasagna, gallons of dressing, dozens of rolls. The cooks get production counts, not a stack of order forms to reconcile.

Kitchen report · Tue 6 orders · 400 covers
Lasagna, full pans across 3 orders14
Caesar, dressed22 gal
Dinner rolls40 dz
Roasted vegetables9 full pans

The order to the supplier

Shopping lists roll up across the whole calendar.

Raw quantities total across every event you’ve booked — this week’s buy in one list, built from the same recipes that price your menu. No re-deriving quantities from six separate orders.

Shopping list · week of Oct 5
Chicken thighs180 lb
Romaine24 cases
San Marzano tomatoes18 #10 cans
Half pans, foil90

Every order, its own load-out

Batched together in the kitchen, packed apart at the dock.

Production batches together; delivery doesn’t. Each order gets its own packing list, so the 40-cover drop and the 120-cover drop each leave with exactly their share — and when one order’s count changes, its list and the day’s totals both follow.

Tuesday load-outs
Meridian Tech 42Packed ✓
St. Anne’s lunch 120Packing
Lakeside Dental 1510:15a
Hobbs & Marsh · count changed 28 → 35Lists updated ✓
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Batched, panned, labeled — a whole day’s production off one sheet.

Everything a production kitchen runs on

Volume is the business — the math shouldn’t be handmade.

Recipes & food costing

Yields and costs live on the item, so batches and margins compute themselves.

Kitchen reports

Production counts totalled across every order on the day, batch math included.

Shopping lists

Raw quantities roll up across the calendar — one buy for the week.

Packing lists

Every order leaves the dock with its own checklist.

Events & calendar

The whole day’s orders — headcounts, windows, statuses — in one view.

Online paymentsComing soon

Clients pay invoices online, at any volume.

Built for kitchens where Tuesday means hundreds of covers across a dozen orders.

The day totals itselfKitchen reports and shopping lists add up across every order on the calendar — no legal pad.
Costing survives volumeCosts live on the recipe, so the margin is right at 40 covers and at 400.
Serving caterers since 2011More than 1,000 catering businesses have run their events on Better Cater.

Run the whole day’s production off one sheet.

Batch counts, shopping lists, and packing lists — computed from the orders, not from a legal pad.

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