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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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What's inside
  • Vendor records: contact, lead time, payment terms
  • Auto-grouped purchase orders by vendor for a given week
  • Mark received → catalog stock auto-updates
  • Linens by colour + size with reorder alerts
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The PO writes itself

Pick a date range. Apron Desk runs order_list_by_vendor() against every confirmed event in the window and groups what to order from whom. Generate the POs as PDFs, email them, mark received as the trucks arrive — and the catalog stock updates so you know what's still pending.

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Linens are their own thing

Tablecloths and napkins live in their own table because they're tracked by colour + size, not just SKU. Reorder points trigger an alert on the Today board when ivory rounds drop below 30 — not after you ran out for the Saturday wedding.

Maître woven through

Maître drafts the POs and sends them to your vendors

Picking the right vendor for each item, calculating safety stock, drafting the email — the boring part. Maître handles all of it; you approve.

“Generate POs for next week's events”

MaîtreMaître scans confirmed events for the week, groups items by vendor, drafts a PO per vendor with quantities + delivery date, asks you to approve before sending.

“When are we going to run out of ivory napkins?”

MaîtreMaître reads stock + reorder point + booked events, projects when stock crosses zero, suggests a reorder date.

$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

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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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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$425/month covers all 24 features.

Unlimited seats · every integration · $50/mo of Maître AI included · 14-day free trial · no credit card.

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