to plan your catering
Planning office catering is stressful.
Anyone who has coordinated a team lunch or company event is familiar with the process. Endless email chains, menu confusion, dietary restrictions, and guesswork on portions (and sometimes pricing). What should take an hour at best turns into days or weeks of coordination, only to end up unsure about whether the event and the food itself will actually meet everyone’s needs.
With the launch of CaterAi™, that all changes. What used to take weeks of planning now takes less than five minutes. CaterAi is the first AI agent purpose-built to plan and execute catering events from end to end. Packed with menus, staffing options, equipment, and décor, CaterAi handles event planning with the knowledge of portions and menus that comes only from real experience, because its foundation is laid on fifteen years of data from people who run corporate food events every day.
To Eat Is To Be Human
AI is reshaping software and knowledge work; yet AI’s advances have barely touched the world of food. Traditional methods require teams to manually coordinate across layers of restaurant interfaces, spreadsheets, and delivery apps that were not built to handle staffing or décor.
Feeding people is inherently human. It requires an understanding of eating culture, dietary preferences, regional flavor profiles, and logistical realities that vary from city to city and neighborhood to neighborhood. Feeding groups of people also requires trust and reliable execution. A missed dish or incorrect portion can derail an entire event; these complexities don’t scale easily, and most apps weren’t designed to navigate them.
Zerocater has been working to change that, rebuilding the backbone of corporate catering by integrating technology and data into the process. In one chat, CaterAi manages menus, multiple dietary groups, budgets, staffing, equipment, and décor. Instead of coordinating across multiple vendors and tools, CaterAi serves as the single point of contact for all event planning needs. What once required multiple tools now takes one conversation.
Built on 10+ Years of Data and Experience
The data supporting CaterAi’s intelligence was developed by Zerocater’s FoodIQ, a dataset compiled based on a decade of data and thousands of events. It captures millions of menu-level details spanning cuisines, portion sizes, dietary categories, pricing patterns, seasonal availability, and cultural themes. This data reflects real insight from chefs and hospitality teams who have prepared countless menus. Not theoretical scenarios or preferences, just lived operational knowledge that you can only get from years in the field.
The depth of data sourced from FoodIQ enables CaterAi to make informed recommendations that reflect human expertise regarding portions, taste profiles, dietary needs, and event context. CaterAi understands how to portion for a 200-person all-hands and a 15-person celebration lunch, how different cuisines and sauces behave when scaled, which menus perform well with mixed dietary groups, and how to keep costs predictable without sacrificing on quality. The combination of culinary expertise and historical performance is far beyond what other apps can support. CaterAi plans events with the same precision and intuition as a seasoned catering professional because it was built on the experience of seasoned catering professionals.
A Quiet Beta
A select group of our clients have already been using CaterAi for months, designing and overseeing meal programs for some of the largest companies in North America. CaterAi is already planning events at a scale that would be difficult for manual coordination to match. Since going live in our beta rollout, CaterAi has already been used by hundreds of customers and has supported thousands of meals.
How CaterAi Works
CaterAi is designed to feel like a regular chat conversation. Input your event details (address, headcount, dietary needs, and budget), and CaterAi instantly generates fully themed menus that fall within your noted pricing range. From there, you can modify any part of the meal: swap proteins, change sides, add or remove staffing, select equipment and décor, or even request new restaurant partners. Once you’re satisfied with your selections, you review an event summary and check out whenever you’re ready.
CaterAi is designed to deliver high-quality menus consistently within the common $15–$40 per person range. Recommendations are grounded in vendor performance data, which drives portion accuracy, predictable costs, and consistent execution. And because CaterAi works only with vetted restaurant and catering partners, users get dependable quality at scale; something traditional delivery platforms simply can’t guarantee. In using CaterAi, meals are premium, stay within budget, and arrive as planned, thanks to vetted partners
Achieving Zero Effort Catering
CaterAi marks the next chapter in Zerocater’s mission to make large-group catering seamless. Our goal remains simple: to make the catering process as easy as possible.
FoodIQ has captured taste preferences, dietary patterns, restaurant performance, and menu success, turning hospitality into a data-driven discipline. With CaterAi, companies move from ad-hoc meal planning to intelligent, repeatable systems that elevate the everyday food experience. Each event booked on CaterAi fuels the agent’s continuous learning, allowing the system to improve with every meal planned and served.
Zerocater is transforming how teams plan and experience food by combining operational insight, hospitality, and AI. CaterAi builds on that foundation with expertise across food, technology, and logistics, grounded in how people actually come together to eat.
AI is reshaping how teams operate across the workplace, and catering should be no exception. Use CaterAi in planning your next event and see your time spent planning reduce from weeks to mere minutes.
