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A catering site that takes the date
Someone hiring a caterer is holding a date. They need: do you take that day, roughly what you cook, drop-off vs full service, and a way to send a headcount without a 40-field maze. A slow slideshow of stock napkin folds does not book the event. A short menu set and a form with the date on it does. Origin stories about grandma’s recipe can wait.
Cheap Fast Websites sells a standard marketing site for $1,000, or $500* if you pay in full by September 30, 2026. This page is the catering version of that product: a marketing site a planner can use on a phone. Date, headcount, the kind of events you take, a form that arrives. Not a 200-SKU cart. Not a booking app. Not a members portal. If you already quote in a spreadsheet, Square, HoneyBook, or email, the site sends them there. We do not rebuild an ordering machine you will not open.
Wedding vs corporate vs backyard vs funeral is a fork. Say which you take. Drop-off vs staffed vs full bar is the other. If you only do trays at the door, do not dress the site as a plated ballroom crew. If you will not travel past a set of towns, write the towns. Fake coverage is how you win a Saturday you will cancel. Dietary notes belong as a line (“we can do vegetarian; we do not run a nut-free kitchen”), not as a 12-page allergen novel unless you actually run that kitchen.
Photos: trays and rooms you actually served. Phone photos of the spread beat stock prime rib. We will not steal another caterer’s buffet. We will not write “unforgettable culinary experiences.” Use the words you use on the phone: trays, boxed lunches, taco bar, staffed dinner. Prices only if you want them public. A range for a drop-off lunch is useful. A fake “starting at $8 a head” you will not honor is not. We typeset what you approve. We do not write bait.
The page is a date desk
- The events you take, and a line on what you do not
- Drop-off vs full service vs bar, spelled out in the first screen
- Towns or radius you actually drive — do not list the whole state
- Real photos of food you cooked, not stock napkin art
- A form: name, phone, date, headcount, drop-off or staffed. Big tap targets.
- Tap-to-call. 813-451-2204 is how this shop does it on our own pages.
Keep the form short. Date and headcount first. A 40-field tasting questionnaire on mobile loses the job. Tasting rules, deposits, and cancellation belong as a short note if they are real. If you already collect a deposit on a Square invoice, we point at that. We do not fake a cart. A chat widget nobody staffs on a Saturday is a closed shop.
What we skip
We do not promise you will rank #1 for “caterers.” Basic SEO on this job is a title, a meta description, and Open Graph. Not a map-pack prize. Not 80 location pages. If you already have a site, check it before you pay. If the date form works and the photos are yours, stay and patch. If the menu is a 20MB PDF that never opens on cellular, rebuild.
Not at this price: a grocery-style cart, a members ordering portal, a native app, a kitchen inventory tool. Those get a quote. We will not write fake “booked solid” clocks. We will not invent a street kitchen and put it in schema. A labeled sample of this trade sits at /examples/caterer/. That sample is not a client. It is a layout: the date, the headcount, a form.
$500* for a standard marketing site. $100 down starts the full $1,000 job. That is not the sale. $500 is pay-in-full by September 30, 2026 only. A one-page with a menu set and a phone is $27. +$27 lifetime hosting on our server if you want that ($54). Worldwide, 24/7. Most jobs under 72 hours when the brief is clear. Send: business name, events you take, drop-off vs staffed, towns, a few food photos, the current URL if any. Phone 813-451-2204.
Pay and start · Free website check · $27 one-page