Catering doesn’t fit on a ticket.
Your menu already exists. Turn it into catering packages, quote real events, and hand the kitchen production sheets — without bolting catering onto the POS or onto somebody’s memory.
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Your POS handles service. Better Cater handles catering.
Keep the register for walk-in, dine-in, takeout, and delivery. Better Cater takes the orders that need more than a ticket — quotes, deposits, signed proposals, production counts, packing lists, invoices, and event-level profit.
The catering “system”
Right now, catering lives on a ticket, a text thread, and someone’s memory.
The POS is great at ringing up Friday service. It cannot quote a 60-person boxed lunch, take a deposit, or tell the kitchen what Thursday’s drop needs prepped. So catering runs on whoever answered the phone.
typed the menu into Word AGAIN
catering pickup @ 11 — who’s driving?
86’d the brisket Friday — did anyone tell the catering order??
Your menu, again
Turn the menu you already have into catering packages.
Enter your items once and package them for catering — boxed lunches per person, the taco bar as a package, delivery as a line item. Every quote after that prices itself as you build it.
Friday service, plus 60 boxes
The kitchen sees catering counts before Friday hits.
The kitchen report gives the line their catering production counts, separate from service, and the packing list makes sure the driver leaves with everything — boxes, drinks, napkins, and the invoice.
Real quotes, real deposits
Quote like a caterer, not like a takeout order.
A branded proposal with deposit terms and an e-signature makes the 200-person holiday party a real booking, not a promise. And because costs live on the items, you can see what the catering side actually earns, event by event.
Friday service and the Friday drop-off — the kitchen sees both coming.
Everything the catering side runs on
A real catering operation, without a second system to babysit.
Menus & packages
Your menu, entered once — packaged and priced per person or fixed for catering.
Branded proposals
Polished quotes with deposit terms and e-signatures — not a takeout ticket.
Kitchen reports & packing lists
Catering production counts and load-out lists, separate from the service line.
Events & calendar
Every catering job on one calendar the whole team can see.
Invoices & deposits
Deposits collected up front, invoices tracked to paid.
Online paymentsComing soon
Clients pay deposits and balances online.
Run service like a restaurant. Run the catering side like a caterer.
Built for restaurants where catering became real revenue
When catering outgrows phone notes, POS tickets, Word docs, and one manager’s memory, it’s ready for a system of its own.
- Boxed lunches & trays
- Taco bars & buffets
- Office drop-offs
- Holiday parties & private events
- Pickup & delivery catering orders
- Multi-location & franchise programs
Only need online ordering or a walk-up register? That’s your POS’s job — Better Cater starts where the ticket ends.
Give catering its own system — finally.
Quote real events from the menu you already have, and hand the kitchen production sheets instead of surprises.
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