AI for Catering Chefs
Design event menus, cost out per service, and plan production at scale with an AI agent suite built for professional catering and event chefs.
Production at scale without losing margin or quality
3,000 free credits per month · No credit card
A Catering Chef's Day-to-Day, in Pictures
What you'll coordinate with AI Chef Pro: menu design, production at scale, logistics, on-site setup, service, and traceability.
About these images: they are visual references, not the final hero photos
When an AI agent generates an image, it serves to illustrate the idea of the dish, drink, dessert or sub-prep: it helps you sense check volume, texture, plating, tableware and the visual math of the concept. The definitive photo of the recipe cost card or tech sheet is the one you take of your real dish, plated in your own kitchen.
Every recipe and creative-content AI agent offers an option at the end of the workflow to generate an image with Nano Banana 2 (the dedicated AI agent for images starts from scratch with its own steps). You can generate the first one and then as many variants as you need, including sub-preps — not just the final plate.
After generating a recipe, cost card or any content, you can download the output as CSV, PDF or Word and add your real photo when you cook the dish in service.
Personalized to Your Catering Type from Minute One
AI Chef Pro starts with the "Who Am I?" agent — a 2-minute conversational onboarding where you tell it what kind of events you design (weddings, corporate, cocktails, galas), average size, city, and how you work. From that moment on, every agent — from Catering AI+ to recipe costing — responds adapted to your context: service types, central-kitchen scale, and real operations. It isn't a form: it's a short conversation that makes the suite genuinely useful for your day-to-day as a catering chef.
What a Catering Chef Cannot Afford to Leave Unsolved
Costing menus with high guest-count variability (50, 200, 500) when ingredient prices change every week
Planning production, mise en place, and large-scale purchasing without slip-ups
Coordinating logistics, transport, and on-site setup at the client venue while respecting timing and temperatures
Maintaining HACCP and traceability outside your fixed location, in third-party venues and refrigerated vehicles
Designing creative menus by event type (wedding, corporate, cocktail, gala) without reinventing every time
Communicating with the production, transport, and service team using clear documentation
How AI Chef Pro Helps a Catering Chef
Specialized agent for catering and culinary events: weddings, corporate, cocktails, and galas with professional knowledge.
Avant-garde Cuisine + Food Pairing AI
Brainstorm event menus. Avant-garde Cuisine delivers recipe + costing CSV ready for Recipe Costing Kit Pro.
Per-event recipe costing
Recipe Costing Kit Pro: load the CSV with your real prices, adjust guest count, and get cost, food cost %, and margin instantly.
Portion calculator that scales recipes to 50, 200, 500, or 1000 covers in seconds.
Catering Tasks Kit
Specific templates for production, transport, on-site setup, service, and breakdown at the client venue.
Off-site HACCP
HACCP Kit with templates adapted to product that travels: traceability, transport temperature, and logs at third-party venues.
AI food photography for client presentations, event proposals, and press releases.
Allergen ID
Automatic allergen identification — critical for events with many guests of different dietary profiles.
Assistant for selecting technical ingredients from the Sosa catalog, especially useful for cocktails and desserts.
The AI Agents You'll Use as a Catering Chef
Real AI agents from the AI Chef Pro catalog, grouped by their official platform category.
Catering AI+
Lead agent: weddings, corporate, cocktails, and galas with professional knowledge.
Avant-garde Cuisine
Professional dish development with recipe + costing CSV ready for Recipe Costing Kit Pro.
Food Pairing AI
Ingredient combinations and pairings with food-science backing.
Creative Pastry
Event and banquet desserts with professional technique, ideal for banquets and galas.
Fermentus Pro AI+
For avant-garde canapés with ferments, garums, and innovative techniques.
Calcula Pax
Portion calculator that scales recipes to 50, 200, or 500 covers.
Allergen ID
Automatic allergen identification per dish — critical for large events.
Waste GenCal
Accurate yield-loss and yield data for production at scale.
Ingredient Converter
Professional weight and measure converter for industrial production.
Sosa Ingredients Agent
Assistant for technical ingredients from the Sosa catalog.
GastroIMG Gen+
AI food photography for client proposals and press releases.
A Real Day for a Catering Chef with AI Chef Pro
08:30 · Catering AI+ — the agent helps you close a 180-guest wedding menu proposal from the client brief.
09:30 · Avant-garde Cuisine — develop the 12 menu dishes with detailed recipe and costing CSV with reference prices.
10:30 · Calcula Pax + Recipe Costing Kit Pro — scale to 180 covers, load the CSV with your real prices, and validate target margin.
12:00 · Client validation — export the proposal with spec sheets and food photography from GastroIMG Gen+.
14:00 · Catering Tasks Kit — plan production, transport, setup, service, and breakdown for Saturday's event.
16:00 · Off-site HACCP — prepare transport temperature logs and third-party venue traceability with the HACCP Kit.
18:00 · Allergen ID — generate the per-dish allergen sheet ready for front-of-house and guests with dietary restrictions.
19:30 · Team brief — assemble the service brief with the kitchen and floor team for the event, all from a single source.
Before & After
Without AI Chef Pro
- Closing an event menu with a client: half an afternoon with calculator and napkins
- Improvised off-site HACCP, no real traceability in transport
- 200-guest production without precise scaling, high shrinkage
- Client proposals with Word templates and stock photos
- Team brief on loose sheets that get lost
With AI Chef Pro
- Close a menu with validated margin in 30 minutes with Catering AI+ and Recipe Costing Kit Pro
- HACCP adapted to traveling product with mobile logs and per-event traceability
- Scaled production with Calcula Pax, shrinkage controlled with Waste GenCal
- Commercial proposals with GastroIMG Gen+ photos and professional spec sheets
- Centralized, replicable brief for production, transport, setup, and service
Downloadable Templates and Kits for Catering Chefs
Templates, kits and guides built for this use case. Ready to download and use.
Tasks: Catering / Events
Event checklists: setup, service, breakdown, traceability.
Recipe Costing Kit Pro
Excel templates that cost out recipes in minutes with real food cost.
HACCP Templates Pack
HACCP and traceability templates ready for inspection.
Financial Plan Kit
Cash flow, P&L, scenarios, and a financial ratios dashboard.
Pro Prompts eBook
200+ proven professional prompts for chefs and owners.
Inventory Management Kit
Inventory, purchasing, waste tracking, and supplier management.
"Per-event recipe costing saves me hours. I close a 200-guest menu with validated margin in 30 minutes. Before, it was half an afternoon with calculator and napkins. And having HACCP adapted to off-site events has eliminated a huge headache with corporate clients."
Andrea Costa
Catering Chef, specialist in corporate events and weddings
Frequently Asked Questions from Catering Chefs
Does it work for any catering size?
Yes. From boutique caterers with 50 covers a month to companies with 1000+ services per month and 2000-guest events.
Does it manage guest-count variability?
Yes. Calcula Pax scales recipes to any cover count, and Recipe Costing Kit Pro automatically recalculates cost, food cost, and margin.
Does it cover off-site HACCP?
Yes. The HACCP Kit has specific templates for product traveling in backpack, motorbike, refrigerated van, or central kitchen — including third-party venue traceability.
Are there catering-specific templates?
Yes. The Catering Tasks Kit includes detailed lists for production, transport, on-site setup, service, and breakdown, plus coordination protocols with central kitchen.
How does it adapt to my catering type?
You start with the "Who Am I?" agent — a 2-minute onboarding where you tell it what kind of events you do (weddings, corporate, cocktails, galas), average size, city, and operations. Everything adapts to your context.
Does it help design innovative menus?
Yes. Catering AI+ + Avant-garde Cuisine + Food Pairing AI + Fermentus Pro AI+ work together to design creative menus with a professional foundation, not recipes copied from the internet.
Also Useful For
Design, cost, and produce events without scattered paper.
Start free with the 2-minute onboarding. 3,000 credits per month to try every agent. No credit card.
