Banquet Event Orders in minutes, not evenings
Paste the client's email or your quote — AI drafts the BEO. Review, adjust pricing and staffing, print a clean document your kitchen and captains can run the event from.
- AI drafting from your notes
- F&B pricing math built in
- Revision # tracking
- $9.95 per BEO — no subscription
Why caterers use a real BEO tool instead of a template
A BEO is not a design document — it's the operational contract your kitchen, captains and client all execute from. A Word or Canva template can't multiply per-person pricing by guest count, recompute service charge and tax when the menu changes, or track which revision the client actually approved. Get one line wrong and you eat the cost on event day.
cateringbeo does the math and the formatting: sections for menu by course, beverage, staffing with labor totals, setup and rental notes, allergy flags in red, and signature lines — with the rev # convention venues expect.
Built for independent caterers
Tripleseat and Caterease start around $100-200/month and want your whole pipeline in their CRM. If you run 2-20 events a month and live in e-mail and spreadsheets, you don't need a platform — you need tonight's BEO done. That's $9.95, and only when you print one.
Frequently asked questions
What is a BEO?
A Banquet Event Order is the standard catering/venue document that specifies everything about an event: menu and pricing, timeline, staffing, room setup, rentals and dietary restrictions. Kitchens and event captains execute directly from it, and clients sign it to approve the details.
How does the AI part work?
You paste unstructured notes — a client email thread, your quote text, phone-call scribbles. The AI extracts the event data into the BEO form (it never invents allergies, names or prices you didn't mention). You review and correct everything before printing; your notes are processed transiently and never stored.
What does $9.95 buy exactly?
Watermark-free printing/PDF of that BEO document, including all later edits and revisions of it in the same browser. Drafting, editing and previewing are free.
Can I use it for the client-facing proposal too?
The BEO doubles as a client approval document (it has signature lines). For the earlier sales stage, see our catering proposal and quote template guides.
Where is my data stored?
In your browser (localStorage). Our server only sees the notes you submit for AI drafting, transiently. No account, no cloud copy of your client list.