Events · Calendar · Scheduling

Pencilled in or definite — every event on one calendar.

Wedding Saturdays, office lunches, three-drop days — every job on one catering calendar, with its own menu, headcount, venue, status, and production details.

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A generic calendar knows what day it is. A catering calendar knows what each day is worth.

Statuses, headcounts, venues, and money live on the event — not in a title field and a group text.

The problem

The calendar square says “Hensley lunch.” Everything else lives somewhere else.

The headcount is on a sticky note, the gate code is in a text thread, and the menu is in last month’s email. The calendar tells you where to be — not what the job is, what it’s worth, or whether it’s even confirmed.

So every change starts a scavenger hunt, and every busy week ends with somebody asking “wait, is that one definite?”

The old wayHensley lunch Tues — 45 ppl (60?? see sticky)
gate code — ask Dana
confirmed?? proposal still out
menu attached menu is in the email
Saturday3 drop-offs, 1 calendar entry —
“details in the group text”

Repeat clients

“Same as last time” starts from last time — not from scratch.

Pull up the client’s last event, duplicate it, and set the new date. The menu, pricing, and delivery details carry over; you only change what’s different.

Sixty guests this time instead of forty-five? Change the headcount, and the totals, kitchen counts, and invoice follow.

Hensley Co. lunch · Tue Aug 18 From Aug 4
Menu Taco bar · agua frescaCarried over
Delivery window 11:15–11:30aCarried over
Guests 45 → 60Updated
New total · invoice drafted$780

The calendar

Your month, color-coded by how real each job is.

Every event lands on the calendar, colored by status — inquiry, tentative, confirmed, completed. Freeform calendar notes (“call the rental company”) sit right on the grid next to the events they belong to.

Click any day and you’re inside the event — menu, headcount, documents, money.

Calendar · week of Aug 3
Tue · Hensley lunch 11:30a · 45 guestsConfirmed
Thu · Rivera retirement 6:00p · 80 guestsTentative
Fri · Note confirm linen delivery
Sat · Alvarez wedding 4:00p · 165 guestsConfirmed

Statuses that match the trade

Pencil it in. Make it definite.

Events move through the stages caterers actually use: an inquiry becomes tentative when the quote goes out (the pencil booking), and confirmed when the contract is signed (the definite booking). One glance at the calendar tells you what’s real revenue and what still needs a push.

Rivera retirement · status
Inquiry receivedJul 9
Tentative · proposal sentJul 11
Confirmed · contract signedJul 15
Space held for Thu Aug 6Definite ✓

Calendar sync

Your events, on the phone in your pocket.

Subscribe once and every event shows up in Google, Apple, or Outlook Calendar — name, guest count, venue, client, and a link back to the full event. The whole crew can see what Saturday looks like without opening another app.

Phone calendar · Sat Aug 8 Synced
10:00a · Hensley picnic drop-off 160 guests · Riverside Park
4:00p · Alvarez wedding 165 guests · Oak Hill Barn
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Every date accounted for — status, headcount, and notes on the grid, not in a group text.

Built for the way a catering month actually looks

A wedding Saturday, weekly office clients, three drops before noon. One system that keeps them straight.

Month calendar

Every event and reminder note on one grid, color-coded by status.

Duplicate any event

Repeat orders start from last time — duplicate, set the date, change what’s different.

Everything on the event

Menu, headcount, venue, and status live on the event — not in a notes field.

Day-of timeline

Load-in, service, teardown — a schedule on the event that flows into the BEO.

Venues on the event

The office, the barn, the park — each event carries its site and the details the crew needs.

Calendar sync

Subscribe from Google, Apple, or Outlook — events update automatically.

One calendar tells you what’s real — every event, every status, every dollar on the month.

Statuses that match the tradeInquiry, tentative, confirmed — one glance separates real revenue from the leads that still need a push.
One calendar for the operationInquiries, tentative holds, confirmed events, and reminder notes on one grid — subscribable from Google, Apple, or Outlook.
Serving caterers since 2011More than 1,000 catering businesses have run their events on Better Cater.

Put your whole catering schedule in one place.

Manage inquiries, tentative holds, and confirmed events from one calendar built for caterers — synced to the phone in your pocket.

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