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Customizable food-and-beverage software tools that boost catering operations

Manage your food-&-beverage sales/orders, billings and more with our catering software tools for event venues, restaurants, and hotels.

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Streamline how you manage food and beverage orders and track vital catering details

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Create a custom food-and-beverage item library

Our system makes it easy to maintain a library of every food and beverage item you offer so you can instantly add them to events and packages. Add images, descriptions, unit pricing, wholesale costs, portion sizes, dietary notes, recipes, ingredient lists, and more to each item.

Effortlessly build catering and equipment packages

For each event, you can create new food-and-beverage packages from existing items or create new items on the fly. And you can also build out food and beverage package templates for all your standard offerings that you can quickly add to an event and then modify.
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Sync F&B packages with event BEOs

When you add food-and-beverage packages to an event, our software syncs package details like quantities, pricing, serving times, and more to banquet event orders in real-time, keeping them current. You can even create multiple BEO documents for each event (like for kitchen and front-of-house staff) and collect e-signatures from clients to approve BEO details.

Elevate the client experience with digital menus

Our food-and-beverage management software lets you present packages and menus to prospects and clients in a colorful, professional way. Either email colorful PDF documents of your food and beverage menus from inside the software OR have clients log into their personal Client Portal to view menus online and sign off on BEOs.
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Sync package updates with proposals and invoices

When you create food and beverage packages for events, you can also calculate package pricing based on per head, fixed cost or calculated from item prices. Once you are finished, in a single click you can sync these food, and beverage packages with proposals and invoices, which automates your entire catering billing process.

See why over 70,000 event and hospitality professionals rely on our food-and-beverage management tools

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"Planning Pod keeps all the information about our events in one convenient place so all staff members can access it, plus it takes care of scheduling, and verifying that we don’t overbook."

- Abbey Brown, The Brownstone Topeka

A closer look at Planning Pod’s and-beverage software

Discover how restaurants, hotels and event venues use our platform to automate processes and grow bookings

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Custom F&B Item Library

Manage all your food, beverage and equipment items in one place and quickly add them to packages. Details include descriptions, images, unit prices, wholesale costs, quantities, recipes, dietary characteristics, and portion sizes.

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F&B Package Templates

Build reusable food and beverage package templates (as well as equipment templates) so you can instantly add them to events and edit them accordingly. Set up pricing calculations based on per head, fixed price or sum of included food & beverage items.

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Banquet Event Order Integration

Any food and beverage package you add to an event is instantly added to BEO documents for the event. This way if you make changes to those packages, the changes are synced automatically to BEOs, an automation that optimizes your ability to have always-current documents.
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Proposal & Invoice Integrations

With a few clicks, you can add food and beverage packages to proposals and invoices in an event. Then our system syncs package details in real-time to all other relevant tools in the event - including orders/menus and BEOs.
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Printable Menu PDFs

Make a big impression with colorful, printable PDFs of food and beverage menus for your events. And use our event CRM + communications tools to optimize emailing PDFs from your account.
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Client Portals w/ Shared Documents

Streamline your interactions with clients and simplify how they do business with you via online Client Portals. Clients can log in; view menus; select food item options; sign off on contracts; view, and sign BEOs; and even pay invoices.
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Synced Item Counts + Pricing

Track how many servings of each item you need to prepare as well as the pricing and cost for those items, plus instantly sync this information to proposals, invoices, and BEOs. Great for optimization of billing and forecasting raw materials and ingredients.
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Full-Color Item Images

Upload images for food and beverage items (plus equipment) that you add to your account. These images will populate into on-screen displays and PDFs as well as in proposals and invoices.

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Recipes, Portions + Ingredients

Add a recipe and ingredient list for each food and beverage item as well as standard portion size so your back-of-house and kitchen staff can easily refer to these details. Also include dietary details (nuts, sodium, vegan, etc.) that are searchable.
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Linked Invoices & Contracts

Easily pull data into BEOs from proposals, contracts and invoices that are linked to an event, including proposal totals, invoice totals/balances, and signature status for contracts / proposals.
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Electronic Signatures

Our banquet event order software features e-signature capabilities so you can request your clients to electronically sign off on your BEOs, ensuring everyone is on the same page.
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Client Portal Integration

Our banquet event order software tool integrates with our online Client Portal so you can easily share BEOs with clients via the portal and have them sign off on these documents quickly and easily.

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Signed BEO Versioning

View a history of all versions of a BEO that have been signed so you can easily track who signed off on what and when.

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PDF Downloads & Emailing

Download well-formatted BEOs so you can print them out to share, or email PDFs of BEOs through the CRM + Communications tool. Download PDFs individually or in bulk by meal types and serving dates/times.

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