CatererIQ gives catering companies one system for inquiries, proposals, menus, banquet event orders, kitchen production, staffing, payments, and client communications. Your sales team quotes from your real menu, your clients sign and pay online, and your kitchen preps from sheets that match the final guest count.
One system from first inquiry to the loading dock · Runs in the browser on phones, tablets, and desktops
Leads, menus, kitchen production, staffing, payments, and client communications in one system. Here's what you get.
Build your menus and packages yourself: courses, per-person and flat pricing, dietary tags, seasonal swaps, and event minimums. Update a price once and new proposals pick it up automatically.
Quotes come straight from your menu, so the numbers stay right. Clients review a branded proposal online, sign the contract electronically, and pay the deposit in the same sitting.
Numbered events like EV-000318 carry the banquet event order: menu, timeline, venue details, rentals, and staffing. Change one detail and the BEO, kitchen sheets, and invoice stay in sync.
A branded portal where clients sign, pay, submit final guest counts and dietary notes, and track their event as it comes together. They see status without calling your office.
Production sheets and prep lists scale recipes to the final count and group them by station. Print them for the line or read them on a tablet in the kitchen, allergens flagged in bold.
Build shifts per event and staff confirm from their phones. Captains see the timeline, setup notes, and tap-to-call for the venue contact. Hours flow into a payroll-ready export.
Deposits at signing, scheduled progress payments, and a final invoice built from the actual counts. Reminders go out automatically, and a batch CSV export feeds your accounting software.
Track what leaves the warehouse for each event: china, linens, equipment, and sub-rentals. Check-in on return flags anything missing or damaged before the deposit is settled.
Booked revenue by month, per-event profitability, tasting conversion, and your best-selling menu items come built in, plus an ad-hoc report builder. Export to CSV and schedule email delivery.
A hosted inquiry form gives prospects a place to request a quote from your website or a link you share. New leads land in your pipeline with the date, guest count, and budget already captured.
Email and text threads live on the event record, so the whole team sees the history. Templates cover confirmations, count reminders, and thank-yous, and portal messages land in the same thread.
After the event wraps, CatererIQ sends your client a review request with a direct link to your Google listing. The ask goes out while the compliments are fresh, so your reviews grow from work you already did.
Also included: printable BEOs and contracts, calendar feeds for your team, a searchable audit log, and starter menus seeded on day one.
Most client calls are really one question: where do we stand? The CatererIQ portal answers it before anyone calls your office, and it does so without exposing your costs or anything your team wrote internally.
Your company gets its own branded portal address. Clients review the proposal, sign electronically, pay the deposit, and come back to the same page as the event approaches.
Clients see each milestone as it completes, from signed proposal to final invoice, so your coordinators stop fielding status calls.
The portal collects the final count and dietary restrictions by your deadline, with reminders sent automatically, so the kitchen preps from the same numbers the invoice bills.
Six roles come configured out of the box, with fine-grained capabilities you can rename, re-scope, or extend from the settings screen.
Manage staff, roles, menus, pricing, the portal, and company settings.
Send proposals, run events end to end, and approve discounts with a documented reason.
Work from production sheets, prep lists, and dietary notes, and stay read-only on contracts and pricing.
Work the event board, manage timelines and rentals, and message clients through the portal.
See their own shifts and event timelines from their phones, and confirm availability with a tap.
Handle invoices, payments, and exports, or get read-only access for leadership and accountants.
Create your account, add your branding, and set your service area, tax rates, and deposit policy. A working starter menu is seeded for you on day one.
Recreate your real menus: courses, packages, pricing, minimums, and dietary tags. Invite your team by email and assign each person a role.
Send a proposal, your client signs and pays the deposit online, and from there the BEO, the kitchen sheets, the staff schedule, and the final invoice all flow from the same record.
These controls are part of the core platform and are on for all companies.
CatererIQ comes from MKN Web Solutions in Detroit, Michigan. Our platforms serve millions of users, and we design, build, and operate all of them ourselves. CatererIQ runs on that same engineering.
We support what we ship. If you email us about CatererIQ, the reply comes from the engineers that built the product, not a sales team.
Create your account and you start with a working menu you can adapt, not a blank screen. There is no credit card required to look around. If you would rather see it first, email us and we will set up a live demo.
Questions go to michael@mknwebsolutions.com and are answered by our engineers.