Today
A sentence becomes a search
The assistant hands back a list of links or a marketplace page, and someone still fills in the form.
MCP · coming soon
Their AI orders lunch. From you.
Your AI assistant
Lunch for 18 from Fairview Kitchen, Thursday at noon. Two vegetarian.
Used CaterRail· menu and times
Fairview Kitchen · Thu, 12:00 pm
18 lunches$278.64
Place order
When an office asks its AI assistant to order catering, CaterRail makes it your order: your menu, your prices, straight to HQ.
Why now
The next catering order starts with a sentence.
Office managers already ask AI to plan the offsite and find a room. Lunch is next. The restaurant the assistant can actually order from gets the order.
With CaterRail
A sentence becomes your order
Your menu, your open windows and your prices, built into an order they approve in one tap.
For you
A customer who stays yours
No marketplace in the middle and no commission on top. Their next order comes straight back to you.
How it works
From the ask to the door, in the same chat.
- 1
They ask
In their own words, from the assistant they already have open. No app to download, no form.
Can you get lunch for the team from Fairview Kitchen this Thursday? 18 of us, noon, two vegetarian.
- 2
It checks your kitchen
Live from CaterRail: the menu, the windows still open, your lead time and your minimum.
Used CaterRail· Fairview Kitchen
- The catering menu and its prices
- Thursday 12:00 is open for delivery
- 18 people clears the $150 minimum
- 3
They approve it
The items, the time and the total, before anything is placed. One tap, on the card or company account they already use with you.
Fairview Kitchenvia CaterRailThu, Oct 22 · 12:00 pm · 18 boxed lunches
- Northline Offices accountCost center: Sales
Total$278.64
Place order - 4
You confirm it, as always
It arrives in HQ like any other order, marked as from an assistant. Your kitchen accepts it and the ticket prints the same.
Accept12:00 Northline Offices
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- 5
They hear back where they asked
Confirmed, on the way, delivered. And next week, “the same as last Thursday” is a whole order.
Fairview Kitchen confirmed Thursday at 12:00. I'll tell you when it's on the way.
Lunch is 10 minutes out. The driver will call when they're downstairs.
What it can do
Everything your storefront does, in words.
The assistant works through the same CaterRail your customers use today. Nothing new for your kitchen to learn.
Browse the menu
Items, photos, what's in each box, and which are vegetarian, vegan or gluten-free.
Find a time
Open windows, lead times and daily limits, for every location.
Build the order
Headcounts, choices, a name on every box, allergies flagged to the kitchen.
Place it, with their OK
On their card or the company's account, cost center and all.
Order the usual
“Same as last Thursday” brings back the last order, ready to approve.
Track it
Confirmed, on the way, delivered, without leaving the chat.
Change or cancel
Within your terms. Anything that needs your OK waits for it.
Open the office lunch
Start this week's lunch group and send everyone the link to add their own.
Your rules hold
The assistant takes the order. You still run the kitchen.
Nothing places without a yes
Every order shows the items and the total first. A person approves it, every time.
Your limits, every time
Minimums, lead times, daily limits, paused kitchens and a company's own spending rules all apply.
Every order through HQ
Your kitchen accepts it like any other. Nothing is confirmed until a real person says yes.
Counted as its own channel
Reports show what came in through assistants, beside your storefront, phone and ezCater orders.
Next, for your team
Then ask HQ anything.
The same connection, for owners and managers. Tomorrow's orders, who's waiting on an answer, which office has gone quiet. It acts only when you say so, and managers only see their own kitchen.
Your AI assistantCaterRail HQ connected
We're short a driver in Raleigh. Hold new delivery orders there until 2.
Used CaterRail· Raleigh's settings and today's orders
Pause Raleigh delivery until 2:00 pm?
New delivery orders wait until then. The 9 already in stay put, and pickup stays open.
Pause RaleighNot now
How it connects
One address. Your menu, your rules.
MCP is the open standard AI assistants use to connect to the tools people work with. CaterRail runs one for every storefront, so an office connects once and orders from you by name.
Connect an assistantFairview Kitchen
Order from Fairview Kitchen in your AI assistant
https://order.caterrail.com/mcp/fairview-kitchenCopy- 1In your assistant's settings, add a connector.
- 2Paste this address.
- 3Sign in with your work email, once.
Your storefront shows this card to your customers. You don't set anything up.
Questions
What owners ask us.
- Which assistants does it work with?
- Assistants that support MCP. We'll name each one here once we've tested it end to end, from the ask to the delivery.
- Can an assistant place an order on its own?
- No. It shows the items, the time and the total, and the order goes in only when the person says yes. Then your kitchen confirms it, as it does today.
- Do allergies and notes come through?
- Yes. They go on the order and the kitchen ticket exactly as they do from your storefront.
- Whose customer is it?
- Yours. The order, the contact and their history live in HQ under your name, and their reorders come to you.
- When can we turn it on?
- We're opening it to a few restaurants first. Ask for early access and we'll set yours up alongside your storefront.