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Food + prep

Catalog + recipes

Every dish, every bottle, every chafing dish — one catalog. Tag dietary, set cost, ship across every event. Recipes nest so plate cost auto-recomputes.

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What's inside
  • Menu items, beverages, equipment, bundles
  • Recipes with ingredient rollup → live plate cost
  • Dietary + allergen tags carry to seating + portal
  • Stock counts + reorder points feed Today's alerts
01

Recipes that nest

Catalog items have an optional Recipe tab. Add ingredient items (also catalog rows). The recursive recipe_cost() walks the tree, so when beef goes up $2/lb every dish using it reprices itself — bundles inherit from items inherit from ingredients.

02

One catalog, every event reads from it

Add an item to the catalog once with cost, sale price, dietary tags, station assignment, taxable flag. Every new event quote pulls from the same source — change the sale price and the next event uses it; existing events keep the price they were quoted.

  • Active / draft / discontinued lifecycle
  • Bulk edit via spreadsheet view
  • Maître can add items via chat
Maître woven through

The catalog stays current without you typing

Maître adds items, updates prices, manages your menu in plain English. Drop a vendor invoice and it imports the cost changes; ask it to discontinue items you haven't used in 6 months and it scans + proposes a list.

“Add 'beef wellington' at $18 cost / $32 sale, station hot, gluten-containing”

MaîtreMaître creates the catalog item with all the right fields filled, returns the link.

“[Drop a vendor invoice PDF]”

MaîtreMaître extracts each line item, matches to your existing catalog (or proposes new), updates costs. You confirm the diffs.

“What menu items have we sold the most this quarter?”

MaîtreMaître scans confirmed events, ranks items by quantity sold + revenue, returns the top 10.

$50 of Maître work included monthly (~7M tokens). Heavy users opt in to overage at cost. Read more on the Maître AI page.

Need something this page doesn’t mention?

We build custom features for individual customers starting at $10/month. If your idea is broadly useful to other catering operators, we may waive the monthly fee entirely and add it to the standard catalog. The first conversation is free and we’ll tell you which path applies.

How it works

Pairs well with

Kitchen prep sheet

Pick a date range, see one cook list. Every event's menu items rolled up by station, with drill-down to the source events and a print-friendly view your kitchen team tapes to the wall.

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Pack lists + container labels

The list of every chafing dish, sterno, ladle, and napkin you load into the truck. Auto-built from the menu, varies by service style, with Avery 8163 labels you print same-screen.

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Vendors + purchase orders

Stop emailing your produce guy a list of items at midnight. Apron Desk groups your week's needs by vendor and writes the PO.

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$425/month covers all 24 features.

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