Catering food quantity calculator
How many pounds of protein, sides, rolls, appetizers, water and ice to buy for your guest count, buffet or plated.
Free tools
Calculators and templates for running a catering kitchen
How much food to buy for 120 guests, what to charge per person, how many servers to book, what to keep when a customer cancels three weeks out, and a quote that adds itself up. Free, no signup, and nothing you type leaves your browser. Every default is either a published guideline with its source linked, or an example you are meant to replace with your own numbers.
Catering price per person calculator
Turn your food cost per guest into a menu price, then see the whole quote: labor, service charge, delivery, tax and what you keep.
Catering staffing calculator
How many servers, bussers, bartenders and station attendants an event needs, and what that labor costs per guest.
Catering deposit and cancellation calculator
Deposit, balance due date and a dated cancellation schedule for one event, with the policy wording ready to paste.
Free catering quote template
Fill in a catering quote in your browser and print it or save it as a PDF. Service charge and gratuity on separate lines.
Marketplace commission calculator
What a percentage-per-order marketplace takes from your catering sales over a year, against a flat-fee website of your own.
Catering sales tax by state
Whether food, a mandatory service charge, delivery and rentals are taxable for caterers in each state we could verify, with the official source for every answer.
Who made this
Your own ordering and quoting website
These tools are free and stay free. They are made by Catering Deck, which builds websites for small catering kitchens where customers pick a package, change the headcount and see the price move, and you get a built order instead of a question. It costs $200–$300 once and $10–$20 a month, with no commission on orders. We build a demo with your own menu first, so you can see it before deciding anything.