Prep Station
For drop-off caterers
Branded online ordering, fees that stick, packing by stop, and Delivery Hub routes—so corporate lunch volume doesn’t live in your inbox.
No credit card · Publish menus you already run · Cancel anytime
Need BEOs, on-site staff, and time clocks? Full-service caterers.
Northside Catering
Downtown kitchen · Order by 2pm
01
Inbox stops being the storefront
Corporate clients reorder themselves—menus, modifiers, and slots—so sales isn’t typing every lunch.
02
Fees and cutoffs you control
Zones, distance, minimums, free thresholds, lead times, and blackouts. No more fee debates at confirmation.
03
Trays match the route
Print packing labels from the sales order, pack by stop, then run the same stops in Delivery Hub—or hand one to DoorDash.
No credit card for the live demo
Your brand, not a marketplace
Cancel anytime
Phone orders. “What’s the delivery fee again?” Breakfast and lunch for the same client typed twice. Packing from a spreadsheet while drivers work a different clipboard.
Drop-off reality
You don’t need banquet staffing software. You need clients to order cleanly, fees to calculate honestly, and every stop to leave labeled.
No banquet timeline. No FOH BEO. Just order → fee → pack → route from one confirmed sales order.
Step 1
Branded storefront with modifiers, multi-slot delivery or pickup, pay or self-serve quote.
Step 2
Live fee from flat, area, zone, or distance rules—plus cutoffs and blackouts you set.
Step 3
Production Hub rolls confirmed demand into prep sheets. Print tray labels from the same sales order—quantities match the stop.
Step 4
Delivery Hub assigns drivers and routes—or DoorDash Drive when your fleet can’t cover a window.
Branded online ordering
Drop-off volume wants self-serve. Your online storefront publishes the menus you already cost—clients add breakfast and lunch slots, upsells, and payment without waiting on a callback.
Cart · Northside HQ
One order · two drop windows
Slot 1 · Breakfast
Thu 7:00 AM
Breakfast boxes × 24
1200 Figueroa · Floor 14 cart
Slot 2 · Lunch
Thu 12:15 PM
Boardroom lunch × 40
Same address · Security desk
Delivery Fees
Pricing for orders fulfilled out of Downtown Kitchen
Calculation method
Flat
$35
Area
3 areas
Zone
4 zones
Matched by address
Distance
$2.25/mi
Zone pricing
Shared options
Fees, zones & cutoffs
Full-service teams argue about headcount and service windows. Drop-off teams argue about delivery fees. Set the rules once—flat, area, drawn zones, or distance—and the storefront shows the estimate before checkout.
Pack by stop
Production Hub consolidates confirmed storefront orders into prep quantities and per-customer packing. Ready-by times feed the same stops drivers will run—then print the tray labels from that order.
Tray & packing labels
Handwritten markers and mismatched stickers are how the wrong tray hits the van. Design label templates once—item name, allergens, ingredients, price, QR—then print a sheet from the confirmed sales order so quantities match what you’re packing for that drop.
Print labels · SO202607-1184
Northside HQ · Breakfast + lunch · 64 labels
Breakfast box
×24Contains: Egg · Dairy
Floor 14 cart
Boardroom lunch
×40Contains: Wheat · Soy
Security desk
Fruit & yogurt
×24Contains: Milk
Floor 14 cart
Beverage station
×2Contains: No major allergens
Security desk
Tray Label template · Letter sheet
Print sheetDelivery Hub
Assign drivers, reorder routes, print manifests, mark delivered. When lunch windows stack up, dispatch DoorDash Drive on the stops your fleet can’t cover—clients still ordered on your brand.
Thursday, July 18 · Downtown Kitchen
1/2 delivered
Northside HQ
SO202607-1184 · 1 item
7:00 AM
Ready 6:20 AM
Riverside Holdings
SO202607-0042 · 1 item
12:30 PM
Ready 11:40 AM
0/1 delivered
Harbor Law
SO202607-1179 · 1 item
1:00 PM
Ready 12:10 PM
Walk a drop from online order to the last stop in the live demo.
Pick the path that matches how you make money—not a generic “catering CRM.”
You care about this
Drop-off mornings
You’re on the right page.
They care about that
Staffed event days
Drop-off teams care about clients ordering online, delivery fees and cutoffs, packing each stop correctly, and getting vans out on time. Full-service teams care about BEOs, run-of-show timelines, on-site staffing, and time clocks when people work the event.
Yes. Your branded storefront lets them browse menus, add breakfast and lunch slots, pay or email a quote, and reorder under your brand—not a marketplace.
Yes. Flat fee, area (ZIP/city/county/state), drawn delivery zones, or driving distance—plus minimums and free-delivery thresholds. Pickup skips delivery fees.
From Delivery Hub you can dispatch DoorDash Drive on individual stops. Clients still checkout on your storefront; DoorDash is an ops backup, not a marketplace.
Yes. Design tray labels once with item name, allergens, ingredients, and more. Print a sheet from the confirmed sales order so quantities match what you pack, then the same order drives Delivery Hub routes, slips, and manifests.
No. The live demo does not require a credit card. Explore the drop-off workflow and cancel anytime.
Prep Station
Spin up the demo and walk online order → fee → pack → Delivery Hub.
No credit card required · Cancel anytime
