Catering and office lunch ordering for restaurants
Stop paying a marketplace to take your own orders.
$1,250.00
Brightwater Labs · 40 people
Thu, Oct 22 · 11:30 am · Delivery
Allergy: tree nuts
Your regulars already know your name. CaterRail puts catering on your own site, so the orders, the customers and the margin stay with you. Office lunch included.
See what the marketplace is taking.
Slide to your monthly catering and see what you hand over every year.
16% is one marketplace partner's real statement, all in. Published rates run 15 to 25%.
At 16%, the marketplace takes
$38,400
a year, out of money you already earned.
- Every month$3,200
- On one $500 order$80
Same order. Very different check.
The tray is the same. What changes is who it's placed with, what it costs you, and who keeps the customer.
Where they order
On a marketplace: A marketplace, next to your competitors
On CaterRail: Your own site, under your name
What it costs you
On a marketplace: Up to a quarter of every order
On CaterRail: A flat monthly fee and a small fee per order
Your rules
On a marketplace: One set for the whole brand
On CaterRail: Every kitchen sets its own
The customer
On a marketplace: Theirs. You get an order number.
On CaterRail: Yours, and every reorder too
The storefront
Built to sell catering, not to list it.
Your menu, your photos, your domain. Customers build a real catering order in minutes, with headcounts, choices and allergies sorted before anything reaches your kitchen. And they never see another restaurant.
Your logo, your colors, your photos. Live in a week.
Catering packages
Sandwich platter
$14.50 a person
Boxed lunch
$15.95 each
Garden salad
$42.00 serves 10
Office lunch
Win the whole office, not just the meeting.
Catering is one order. Office lunch is every day. CaterRail handles all of it, from trays for the conference room to the lunch that opens itself every Thursday, in one queue.
Copperleaf Realty
Trays for 25 · accepted
The meeting
Trays for the room, priced per person, ordered in minutes.
Harlow & Pike
9 of 12 picked · a label for each
On the company
One link, everyone picks. One order, one bill, a label for every person.
Lakeside Tech
18 in · 2 more and delivery is free
Everyone pays their own
The whole office orders from your full menu and pays their own way. You get one big delivery.
Northline Offices
13 in · 7 more and delivery is free
Every Thursday
A standing lunch that opens itself every week. Your newest regulars.
Everyone pays their own
Twenty lunches. One delivery. No chasing payments.
Office lunch used to mean twenty small orders, twenty trips and twenty headaches. Now it's one ticket. Everyone orders from your full menu, pays with their own card, and you send one delivery with every name on it.
20 lunches
Free delivery unlocked
- Dina Cruz Turkey & Swiss$13.95 paid
- Alex Kim Baked penne$10.95 paid
- Ava Patel Garden salad$8.50 paid
- Ben Cole Roast beef$13.95 paid
and 16 more
Bigger orders, built in
Free delivery kicks in at the number you set, so offices round up their coworkers to hit it.
Their fees, not yours
Everyone covers their own card and service fees. Your margin stays whole.
Paid before you cook
Every card is authorized when they order and charged when the order goes. Short of your minimum? The organizer tops it up, or it cancels clean.
You decide who's in
Approve organizers one by one, or open it up to everyone.
Lunch groups
Turn the office down the street into a weekly regular.
Lunch groups give every office, hospital and business park near you a standing lunch with your restaurant. They join once. You get a recurring order.
- 1
Join once
Scan the flyer in the break room. Name, number, allergies. Done.
- 2
Lunch opens
The organizer picks the day and the time, or sets it to open every Thursday.
- 3
Everyone gets a text
When lunch opens, a nudge before it closes, and a ping when it's here.
- 4
Reply 1 for the usual
The fastest reorder there is. One text, read back, confirmed.
Fairview Kitchen
To the Northline lunch group
Thursday lunch is open. Reply 1 for your usual: Turkey & Swiss.
1
You're in. Turkey & Swiss at noon, $13.61 on your card.
Northline Offices
23 people · 4th floor kitchen
- Next lunchThu, Oct 22 · noon
- Order by10:30 am
13 in · 7 more and delivery is free
Your restaurant, your guest list.
Advertise lunch groups on your site and pick which offices get one. Set daily limits for each location so catering never gets squeezed.
Crestline Engineering
About 40 people · Riverside · 4th floor
- Group lunches a day2
- Arrivals11:00 am to 1:30 pm
- Most meals in one lunch60
HQ
Run every kitchen from one screen.
D-B2M5Y
THU 12:00 PM · DELIVERY
NORTHLINE OFFICES LUNCH
20 LUNCHES
ALLERGY
AVA PATEL · TREE NUTS
- 1× Turkey & Swissfor Dina Cruz
- 1× Baked pennefor Alex Kim
- 1× Garden saladfor Ava Patel · no nuts
- 1× Roast beef & cheddarfor Ben Cole
+ 16 more, each with a name
9
orders
$4,812
booked
1
to answer
- 11:30 Brightwater LabsAnswer
- 12:00 Northline Offices$318.40
- 12:30 Copperleaf Realty$266.49
Every order, from every location and every channel, in one place. Each kitchen sets its own rules. Managers pause their own shop when the line is slammed. And nothing is confirmed until a real person says yes.
Tickets that print right
80 mm kitchen tickets with the allergies up top and a name on every meal.
No change left hanging
Customer changes get answered on the clock, or they escalate until someone does.
Reorder in one tap
Rebuild any past order instantly. Made for the office that orders the same thing every week.
One menu, every location
Change an item once. Choose which locations sell it.
Rewards that bring them back
Loyalty points on every direct order, switched on location by location.
Every order answered
Every order pings the right people and keeps following up until someone says yes.
Coming soon · CaterRail in AI assistants
Their AI orders lunch. From you.
When an office asks its AI assistant to order catering, CaterRail makes it your order: your menu, your prices, straight to HQ.
- 1
Ask in a sentence
“Lunch for 18 Thursday at noon, two vegetarian, one nut allergy.” That's the whole order form.
- 2
Your real menu
Your items, your prices, your open windows, your minimums. The assistant never guesses.
- 3
Nothing goes in until they say yes
They see the order and the total first. One tap places it.
- 4
It lands in HQ, under your name
Like any other order: your kitchen confirms it, and your customer keeps coming back to you.
Works with AI assistants that support MCP, the open standard for connecting AI to the tools you use.
Order lunch for 18 from Fairview Kitchen this Thursday at noon. Two vegetarian, and Ava has a nut allergy.
Used CaterRail· Fairview Kitchen's menu and Thursday's open times
Thursday at 12:00 is open. Here's the order from their catering menu:
Thu, Oct 22 · 12:00 pm · Delivery to the 4th floor
- 16 Turkey & Swiss boxes$217.60
- 2 Garden salad boxes, vegetarian$27.20
- Ava: no nuts, flagged to the kitchen
Total with delivery and tax$278.64
From click to delivered, nothing slips.
Follow one order from the moment it's placed to the next one.
Placed
On your site. No middleman.
11:03 amPlaced$453.06
On the restaurant's own site
- Thu, Oct 2211:30 am
- Delivery4.2 mi
- Sandwich platter × 25$362.50
Lands
Straight to the right kitchen's queue.
11:04 amNewD-FTJR9
Top of Fairview Center's queue
- CustomerDana Reyes
- CompanyNorthline Offices
- Headcount25 people
Told
Everyone who needs to know, right away. Then again.
11:04 amSent3 of 3
Everyone on the location's list
- Catering inboxEmail
- Shift leadText
- No answer by 11:09Call
Accepted
A real person says yes. The customer knows right away.
11:10 amAcceptedYes.
Shift lead, Fairview Center
- CustomerEmailed
- Status pageConfirmed
- Prep sheetAdded
Made
On the morning's prep sheet, automatically.
6:00 amPrepped62
Sandwich rounds on the prep sheet
- Boxed lunch25
- Hot tray2 half pans
- Salad bowl4
Delivered
Photo at the door. A QR code for the next order.
11:24 amDelivered$0.00
Marketplace commission
- Proof of deliveryPhoto
- In the boxQR code
- Next order1 scan
Pricing
Priced to keep the money where it belongs.
A flat monthly fee per location and a small fee per order. We'll run the numbers with your own volume on a call.
A fraction of the marketplace cut
Keep the margin a marketplace was taking from your own customers.
Everything included
Storefront, HQ, group orders, office lunch, lunch groups, alerts, drivers and rewards. At every location.
No setup fees
And no contract on the pilot. Run it beside what you use now and compare the month.
See your menu on it this week.
Send us one location's catering menu. We'll send back a working storefront with your name on it within a week. Then decide.
Live in a week
Your menu in, your storefront taking test orders out.
No contract on the pilot
Run it beside what you use now and compare the month.
Your customers stay yours
Every name, company and order is yours, whatever you decide.