Gather generates complete catering menus and instant quotes from a few details about your event — guest count, dietary needs, occasion type. No templates. No spreadsheets. Just menus that actually fit what you're throwing.
Try the Menu Generator →You know the drill. You get a request — 40 guests, two vegans, one gluten-free, corporate lunch, next Tuesday — and you spend an hour building a menu in a spreadsheet, then another hour cobbling together a quote in Canva. That's time you're not shopping, not prepping, not getting better clients.
The big platforms (Total Party Planner, CaterZen, Caterease) charge setup fees, require onboarding consultants, and give you seventeen modules you'll never use. You're a hospitality business, not an enterprise IT department.
Enter your event details — occasion, guest count, dietary requirements — and Gather builds a complete, ready-to-present menu in under a minute.
Every menu comes with a line-item quote — food cost, prep time estimate, per-head pricing. Walk into a client meeting with a number, not a maybe.
Vegan, gluten-free, dairy-free, nut allergies — specify your crowd and Gather builds a menu that works for everyone. No awkward separate-plates moments.
One-click export to a clean, branded PDF proposal. Not a Canva link — a professional document that makes you look like you have a full marketing team.
Gather tracks what you've quoted, what you've booked, and flags ingredients you need to source — keeping your operation organized between events.
Past events, past preferences, past pricing — Gather remembers your clients so you walk into every new inquiry already knowing what they liked last time.
They're the ones who show up to every event looking like they had a full team behind them. Gather is that team — the one that works while you sleep, quotes while you're prep, and makes every client feel like they're your most important booking.