Free tools

Free tools and resources for catering operations

Built by the App8 team because catering teams ask for them. Free, no sign-up unless a card says otherwise, no watermarks, and none of the interactive tools send what you type anywhere.

Tools

Interactive: do the work right on the page.

Catering invoice generator

Build a catering invoice with line items, taxes, service fee, deposit, PO number and cost center, then print it or save it as a PDF. Nothing you type leaves your browser.

Open the generator

Catering order form builder

Build a printable catering order form with your details, the sections your intake needs, and your own custom questions, then print it or save it as a PDF.

Open the builder

Catering scorecard

Ten questions place your catering program on the five-stage operational maturity model, with an instant result and a recap you can hand to finance and IT.

Take the scorecard

Resources

Documents and templates you take with you.

The Catering Operations Playbook

The four jobs a catering operation runs on, five stages each, and the moves that take a row up one. Free, with no sign-up.

Get the Playbook

RFP technology checklist

Fifteen points for winning the technology section of catering and dining-services RFPs, each tied to the cost of running the program. Delivered by email.

Get the checklist

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