The quiet confidence of a well-run kitchen.
Calendar, proposals, invoicing, staff scheduling, packing lists, an AI team member — one workspace your crew will actually open on a Friday night.
No credit card required. Unlimited team members. Cancel anytime.
Replacing the dusty tools caterers have tolerated for a decade
Caterers are the last hospitality business
still running on software from 2012.
Outdated interfaces. Missing integrations. Mobile? Forget it. Meanwhile restaurants have Toast, events have Tripleseat, weddings have Honeybook — and off-premise caterers get stuck paying for 2008-era software at 2025 prices.
Apron Desk is what you’d build if you started today.
Built for how caterers actually work.
And Maître AI is woven through every feature — same chat panel, every surface. Drop a contract, ask a question, get the proposal drafted in your tone. The AI isn’t a separate thing you remember to use; it’s how you interact with the workspace.
Sell more events, faster.
Calendar that drags and drops. Proposals that get signed in the browser. Deposits that clear while you sleep.
- Month, week, day, resource, map views
- Branded client portal (no PDFs)
- E-signatures + online deposits
- Automated follow-ups
Run the day flawlessly.
Auto-generated pack lists, recipe costs, kitchen prep reports, and a driver-dispatch map all wired off the same source of truth.
- Recipes → plate costs (rollup)
- Floor plan + seating charts
- Heating & serving labels (Avery)
- Driver dispatch + route map
An AI team member.
Drop in an inquiry email, a vendor PDF, a napkin photo. Maître extracts the details, creates the lead, drafts the reply.
- Email → draft proposal
- PDF → extracted line items
- $50/mo of usage included (~7M tokens)
- Every action fully audited
The business finally fits on one screen.
Bookings this week, accounts receivable, event pipeline value, staff labor cost per event, tomorrow's run-of-show — all on the Today dashboard, refreshed in real time.
- Revenue forecast as-of any date
- Outstanding proposals queue
- Lost-revenue-by-reason
- Two-way accounting sync
Prep sheets that actually reflect tomorrow.
Recipes with ingredient rollups. Master food production by date. Pack lists that auto-vary by service style (drop-off vs plated vs buffet).
- Pack list variants per service style
- Vendor order lists (beverage, rental, misc)
- Low-stock alerts with reorder points
- Menu item cookbook PDFs
A portal your brides will actually use.
Magic-link page — no passwords, no PDFs. View the proposal. Sign. Pay the deposit. See the BEO. All branded to your logo.
- Magic-link access (no passwords)
- Online deposit collection
- E-signature in-browser
- Public ordering storefront (drop-off menu)
Each person sees just their shift.
A crew member opens 'My shifts' on their phone, taps Clock in. Time-clock replaces scheduled hours in labor cost. Drivers get a route map with Google Maps handoff. Operators close out events with a debrief that Maître reads later.
- Mobile 'My shifts' page with one-tap clock in/out
- Driver dispatch map with Google Maps handoff
- Post-event debrief notes (read by Maître for reports)
- Email shift reminders the night before
Customer emails land in your CRM, not your Gmail.
Each business gets a private inbound address. Inquiries auto-create the contact and start a thread Maître can draft replies for. The morning brief surfaces overnight messages so nothing slips through.
- Per-tenant inbound email address
- Auto contact + thread creation
- Maître drafts replies — you review and send
- Daily morning brief: 'what needs your attention today'
20 dedicated capability pages — calendar, catalog, vendors, POs, seating, reports, integrations, and the rest.
Doesn’t do exactly what you need? Tell us. We add it.
Most caterers run unique workflows. Standard SaaS tells them to adapt. We build the missing piece, bill it monthly, and you keep using it for as long as it’s useful.
Custom add-ons from $10/month.Cancel anytime.
If your idea is broadly useful to other catering operators, we may waive the monthly fee entirely and add it to the standard plan. The first conversation tells you which path applies.
Apron Desk shipped because catering operators kept asking for it.
Quotes below come from the design partner cohort we built with through 2026. Named testimonials with photos publish as the first paying customers come off trial.
“The pack list alone saved my Saturday. It used to be a Google Doc and a prayer; now it's right under the event with a checkbox per chafing dish.”
“Maître drafted the recap email to a corporate client while I was still loading out. By the time I got back to the office it was sitting in drafts, ready to send.”
“We have three kitchens. Old software treated them like one. Now reports filter by location and the dispatch view groups stops by where they're shipping from. Obvious in hindsight.”
$425 / month
One plan. Unlimited team members. Every feature. 14-day trial, no card required.
Start your free trialThe included $50 covers ~7 million tokens — about 140 long Maître chat sessions or 700 PDF extractions every month. Heavy users opt in to overage billed at cost.
Answers, before you even ask.
Do I need to import my data?
Can my team see this on their phones?
What's Maître AI actually do?
Do you support drop-off / off-premise caterers?
What about SMS to staff or clients?
What if I need a feature you haven't built yet?
What payment methods do you accept?
Is my data safe if I cancel?
Your next event is coming whether you’re ready or not.
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