For caterers, food trucks, and BBQ businesses
Catering jobs are slipping away in your DMs.
Right now, catering inquiries come in through Facebook DMs, Instagram messages, and missed calls. By the time you reply with a price, they have already booked someone else. You are losing jobs you should have won.
BookedPlate gives every guest an instant price and sends you the inquiry the second it comes in, so you reply first. And if a guest stalls, BookedPlate follows up for you until the job is booked or closed.
Free for 14 days. BookedPlate takes no cut of your deposits.
Sound familiar?
- Inquiries everywhere. A DM here, a text there, a voicemail you find two days later. Nothing in one place, and good jobs slip through the cracks.
- Quoting by hand after a long day. You work out the price on paper, type it into a message, and hope the math is right.
- Guests who go quiet. They asked for a price, you sent one, and then you never hear from them again.
- Chasing money feels awkward. Deposits and balances mean reminder calls and texts nobody enjoys sending.
- Two events, one Saturday. A double-booked date, and the worst phone call of your week.
None of that is a cooking problem. It is a follow-up problem. Follow-up is exactly what BookedPlate does.
How it works
- Share your link. Put your quote form on your website or in your bio.
- Guests get an instant price. They pick a date, headcount, and menu, and see the estimate right away. It is a real number too, with your delivery fee and tax included, so there are no surprises later.
- Guests book it themselves. They pay a deposit from their own booking page, their date gets blocked, and the inquiry flips to Booked. You get a confirmation email and just show up and cater.
- BookedPlate chases the rest. If a guest goes quiet before paying the deposit, BookedPlate emails them for you, and saved quotes get a reminder too. Booked guests get a polite balance reminder before the event. Every booking those emails bring back is marked on your dashboard, so you can see what they earned you.
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What changes when follow-up is handled
Your link does the quoting. Deposits land without a phone call, and the date blocks itself so nobody double-books it. When a guest goes quiet, BookedPlate follows up. When a balance comes due, the guest gets a reminder. You open one dashboard and see every inquiry, every booking, and every dollar the follow-ups brought back.
And the cost of waiting is real. The job usually goes to the caterer who replies first, not the one who cooks best. BookedPlate makes the fast reply happen before you even pick up your phone.
One quote form, one dashboard, and a follow-up system that books jobs while you cook.