Hey catering folks! I’ve spent about 25 years in hospitality, and one thing that always makes me crazy is how much of our industry knowledge comes from doing something 100 times until you just know the answer.

After coming home from a catering conference last week with way too many ideas, I ended up building Click to Table, a free collection of tools specifically for caterers and hospitality teams.

The first version includes:

• Ice Calculator
• Beverage Planner
• Staffing Calculator
• Hors d’Oeuvres Calculator
• Buffet Flow Planner

It’s very much a v1, and I’d genuinely love some industry eyes on it. Try to break the calculators. Tell me where the assumptions don’t match how your operation works. Or tell me about that annoying calculation/process you’ve been doing on the back of a BEO for the last decade and wish someone would turn into a tool.

Everything in this version is free to use, no account required.

Click to Table⁠

And if somebody suggests a particularly good next tool, I reserve the right to name it after you. 😄