For caterers who also sell meal prep
Price your weekly menu like you price an event
You cater on the weekend and sell weekly meal prep on the side. CaterKit already does the hard half you do today: what every portion costs, what to charge, a branded quote your client accepts on their phone, and the prep and pack lists for cook day. A dedicated meal-prep mode — weekly menus, cutoff reminders, recurring orders — is on the roadmap, and the waitlist below shapes what we build.
What it does today
Every portion is a recipe
Enter your proteins, sides, and containers once with pack sizes and costs, and every menu prices itself per portion. A 20-meal week and a 120-meal week come from the same recipes — no re-costing from scratch when the order doubles.
Quote the standing order tonight
The inquiry lands Sunday night; your itemized, branded quote goes back the same evening with a deposit line and an accept button. Deposits go straight to your own payment links — CaterKit never sits between you and your client's money.
Cook day runs on lists
Shopping, prep, and pack lists build themselves from what you sold — scaled to the portion count, checkable one-handed at the bench, and working offline when the kitchen Wi-Fi drops.
What a weekly menu goes for
A 40-portion weekly drop-off menu, per portion
$23.50 – $39.00
The week's run
$940.00 – $1,560.00
2026 market range: delivered drop-off service, standard protein, three sides, national cost average. A meal-prep box prices the same way a drop-off plate does — per portion, from your own ingredients. Your number comes from your recipes, which is the point.
Adjust this estimate for your portion count and region — free, no signup.
Know the margin, not a guess
Thin-margin volume is exactly where a few cents a portion decides whether the week made money. Record what an order actually cost — food, labour, and overhead against what you charged — and CaterKit shows the real margin on every event, so you price the next run from truth instead of a feeling.
On the roadmap · not built yet
Meal-prep mode — planned
Here's the honest part: the pieces that make a weekly meal-prep run its own workflow aren't built yet. They're on the roadmap as a dedicated meal-prep mode, and this is what it's scoped to do:
- Weekly menu templates — set this week's menu once and roll it forward, instead of rebuilding a quote every Monday.
- Cutoff reminders — a nudge before your order-by time so nothing gets missed the night before cook day.
- Recurring order records — the same clients, week after week, kept as records you can see and adjust.
- Weekly production & pack lists — the whole week's cook batched into one production run and per-client packs.
Meal-prep mode is operator-side by design: your weekly menus, your production lists, your records. Your clients still pay you on your own payment links, exactly the way they do today — it is not a consumer ordering storefront, and it isnot a subscription-billing engine that charges your customers for you.CaterKit stays your quoting and production tool, never a marketplace between you and the people you cook for.
The deal, plainly
- No setup fees.
- Clients pay you directly. We never take a cut.
- No per-quote quotas.
- The price you join at is yours.
- Export everything, free, on every tier, forever.
Free is real — no card, no countdown. See pricing for the exact table.