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Catering

Not cooking — logistics, counting and precision.

Catering is not a kitchen problem. Anyone reading this can cook for a hundred and forty. The job is knowing that it is a hundred and forty, that twelve of them are vegan, that three cannot have gluten — and that the soup needs a hundred plates, a hundred spoons, two heaters and enough ladles.

  • The final count changes three times in the last week and each change is a different phone call.
  • Allergies arrive as 'oh, and Marija doesn't eat dairy', by text, the night before.
  • The van leaves and someone notices on site that the ladles stayed behind.
  • The wedding enquiry that arrived Sunday gets a quote on Wednesday, and the couple has moved on.

Where the money actually goes

Not the invoice you can see. The three that never appear on a report, because nothing was ever written down.

  • The count that changed and nobody told the kitchen

    The final number moves three times in the last week, each time by a different route — a text, a call, a remark at a meeting. Cook for the old number and you have waste; cook for a number you half heard and you are short, in front of a hundred and forty people, with no shop nearby.

  • The thing that stayed on the bench

    Food is the easy half. The job is remembering that soup for a hundred means a hundred bowls, a hundred spoons, two heaters and enough ladles — and every one of those is obvious right up until it is forty minutes away in your own kitchen.

  • The enquiry answered on Wednesday

    A wedding enquiry arrives on a Sunday and is worth more than a month of tables. By the time it gets a quote on Wednesday, the couple has had two other answers — and the first sensible reply they got has already shaped what they expect from everyone else.

What we would ask you first

The fifteen-minute call is these questions, in this order. If you already know your answers, you will know more than most owners by the end of it.

  1. 01How does a final guest count reach your kitchen, and how many times does it change?
  2. 02How do allergies arrive, and where are they written down?
  3. 03Who packs the van, and against what list?
  4. 04How long between an enquiry landing and a quote going out?
  5. 05After the last event, did you work out what it actually cost you?

What we hear, and what we say back

Every job is different. There is nothing to standardise.

Every job is different in the menu and identical in the shape: a count, a set of exceptions, a load list, a timeline and a quote. That shape is the same for a wedding and a company lunch, which is why the second one should not cost you an evening of arithmetic. What is custom is the food, and nobody is proposing to standardise that.

We have done this for years without any of it.

You have, and the memory that makes that possible is genuinely the skill. The problem is that it does not scale and does not transfer: the day you run two events at once, or the day the person holding it is ill, everything that was carried in one head has to exist somewhere else. Writing it down is not a criticism of the memory, it is insurance on it.

Where most catering start

Nothing here is sold off a shelf. Before anything is switched on we sit down with your venue and say plainly what is ready today and what we would have to build for you — that conversation costs nothing and takes fifteen minutes.

Fifteen minutes, no slides.

Tell us how your place actually runs — covers, staff, what eats the evening — and we will name the two things worth starting with.

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