Can the site generate quotes, or just take inquiries?

We can do both. A structured intake form (head count, service style, date, dietary needs) can feed a draft quote from your pricing, so you edit rather than build from scratch. See automation for caterers.

Can we take corporate and drop-off orders online?

Yes — repeatable menus with per-item ordering, minimums, and a lead-time cutoff let office lunches and platters book without a phone call, connected to online payments.

Will the menu be a pain to keep updated?

No. We build the menu so it lives in one place and updates everywhere at once, which ends the version drift between your website, PDFs, and order forms.

Do we need an app to take orders?

Almost never — web ordering covers corporate and event clients without app-store friction. Our full reasoning is on the app-for-caterers page.

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Websites, apps & automation for catering companies

Updated August 2026 · Nabee Studio

Nabee Studio builds custom websites, platforms, and automation for catering companies — from $4,500 one-time or $499/mo for 24 months with maintenance and hosting included. One partner replaces the stack of vendors, template subscriptions, and manual work, so working with us saves money, time, or both.

Catering is a quoting business disguised as a food business. Every job is different — head count, menu, service style, staffing, rentals, travel — so the real work isn't cooking, it's turning a vague "we're having 80 people in June" into an accurate, profitable proposal. Most catering websites don't help with any of that; they show a menu and a phone number.

The gap shows up as a chef or owner building custom quotes by hand at 10pm, chasing tastings and final head counts by text, and losing corporate lunch orders to a competitor whose site let the customer just order.

Where catering companies lose time and money online

Every quote is built from scratch

Per-person pricing shifts with menu, service style, and staffing, so owners rebuild each proposal in a spreadsheet or email. A structured event-inquiry form that captures head count, date, service type, and dietary needs feeds a quote you can generate in minutes instead of an hour.

Corporate and drop-off orders don't need a human at all

Office lunches, boxed meals, and platters are repeatable and time-sensitive. Forcing them through a phone call loses the order to any competitor with online ordering. A menu with per-item ordering and a cutoff time captures that revenue while you sleep.

Final counts, dietary needs, and tastings live in scattered texts

The details that make or break an event trickle in by text and email up to the day before. When there's no single source, something gets missed. A client portal or structured confirmation flow keeps counts, allergies, and timelines in one place.

Menus and pricing go stale across every channel

Seasonal menus change, but the PDF on the site, the one in the inbox, and the printed sheet all drift apart. A single menu managed in one place — and reused everywhere — ends the version confusion.

What manual work does a custom build remove?

The typical catering company runs on manual touchpoints like these:

Building custom per-person quotes by hand for every event inquiry
Taking corporate and drop-off orders over the phone
Chasing final head counts and dietary restrictions by text before each event
Scheduling and confirming tastings one message at a time
Updating seasonal menus across the website, PDFs, and printed sheets separately
Collecting deposits and balance payments manually

Each of those is hours a week that a custom build turns into software:

Structured event-quote intake — A guided form captures date, head count, service style, and dietary needs, then produces a draft quote from your per-person and package pricing instead of a blank spreadsheet.
Online ordering for drop-off & corporate — Repeatable menus with per-item ordering, minimums, and a lead-time cutoff so office lunches and platters book themselves without a phone call.
Final-count reminders — Automatically requests the guaranteed head count and dietary details on a schedule before the event, and logs the responses in one place.
Deposit + balance payments — Collects the deposit on booking and the balance before the event automatically, with receipts and reminders handled for you.

Integrations that matter for catering companies

Online payments / deposits (Stripe) · Calendar sync for events and tastings · CRM for event pipeline · Email + SMS notifications · Menu / inventory management · Accounting export (QuickBooks / Xero) — built in, not bolted on with extra subscriptions.

What does it cost?

One scoping pass, one fixed number — no hourly billing. Most caterers need a website with structured quoting and drop-off ordering, not a logged-in platform — a full client portal only pays off for high-volume operations juggling many concurrent events.

Website — from $4,500 one-time (standard from $7,500), or $499/mo for 24 months with the Maintenance Plan and hosting included.

The monthly plan totals somewhat more than paying up front — that's the honest trade for spreading the cost and having us operate everything for two years. Details in the payment plan guide and on the pricing page.

Start a project — describe your catering company and get a fixed quote after one scoping pass.

Common questions

Can the site generate quotes, or just take inquiries?: We can do both. A structured intake form (head count, service style, date, dietary needs) can feed a draft quote from your pricing, so you edit rather than build from scratch. See automation for caterers.
Can we take corporate and drop-off orders online?: Yes — repeatable menus with per-item ordering, minimums, and a lead-time cutoff let office lunches and platters book without a phone call, connected to online payments.
Will the menu be a pain to keep updated?: No. We build the menu so it lives in one place and updates everywhere at once, which ends the version drift between your website, PDFs, and order forms.
Do we need an app to take orders?: Almost never — web ordering covers corporate and event clients without app-store friction. Our full reasoning is on the app-for-caterers page.