Website for a catering company: per-event packages and quote requests that actually close

If you run a catering company, most of your clients come looking for you with a very specific question in mind: "who's going to cook for my 120-person wedding in September?" or "I need lunch for a team of 30 people, every single day." A website for a catering company is where you answer them before they even call you — with menus, packages by event type, photos that whet the appetite, and a form they can use to send you the date and the headcount. We, the MPO Web Studio team, build exactly the kind of website that turns a curious browser into a quote request that's actually worth calling.

Catering has one quirk that other services don't: it's bought with the eyes and the stomach, but it's booked with a calculator in hand. People want to see what the platter looks like first, then they want to know whether you fit their per-person budget and whether you're free on their date. If the website doesn't cover both sides — the appetite and the logistics — you'll either get requests from people who are completely outside your profile, or you'll get none at all.

Why a website, not just an Instagram page

Instagram is great at "look how gorgeous this looks," but weak at "book me." There, people see a plate, hit like, and scroll on. On a website you guide them step by step: they pick the event type, see what's included in the package, understand the rough per-person price, and fill in the request. On top of that, the website is yours: you show up in Google when someone searches "wedding catering" or "corporate catering" in your city, without depending on how much an algorithm chooses to show you on any given day.

The things that really make a difference in the catering niche:

• Separate packages by event type — a wedding, a christening, a corporate event, and the coffee break for a conference all sell differently and carry a different budget. A five-course plated menu for a wedding has nothing in common with a cold platter for 50 people at a product launch. Each one deserves its own page.
• A real gallery, not stock photos — your platters, your arrangements, the table set at an actual event. Half the sale is decided right here. A photo of a plate from an image provider is felt from a mile away and chips away at trust.
• A form built to give a price — not "write us a message," but fields for the date, the headcount, the event type, the serving style (plated / buffet / platters), and any dietary restrictions. That way you get a structured email and you reply with an offer, instead of three more questions.
• Answers to the questions that come up anyway — do you offer a tasting before the event? What area do you deliver to and up to how many kilometers? Do you provide serving staff, tableware, tents? Lay out your ordering rules clearly (how far in advance, deposit, cancellation). All of this, written from the start, cuts your phone calls in half.

What pages we put on a catering website

The structure we recommend starts from how the client decides, not from what we want to say about the company.

Beyond the pages, the form is the piece that filters your work. When someone fills in the date, the headcount, and the event type, you can tell right away whether you're free, whether it falls in your busy season, and whether it's worth a call — or whether it's a "just asking" type of request. For a small company, that means less time wasted and a cleaner calendar.

How much it costs and how long it takes

For a catering company, we most often recommend a presentation website, which comes in at 490–890 € and covers the gallery, the event packages, the menus, and the quote form. If you want detailed pages on their own for each event type, plus a blog section with seasonal menus, we move toward a 7+ page site, at 890–1,500 €. If you're only launching a one-off offer — for example a holiday platter package — a landing page at 290–490 € is enough. You'll find the details in our article on how much a website costs.

As for timing, a presentation website is generally ready in 2–3 weeks, and the speed depends mostly on how quickly you send us the photos and the menus. Maintenance starts at 29 €/month and means we take care of swapping in the seasonal menus, uploading new photos from your events, and the technical side, so that you cook instead of fighting with the website.

How it helps with Google and with AI recommendations

A beautiful website that no one can find brings no orders. For catering, local SEO matters enormously — meaning showing up when someone in your area searches for catering services, because almost no one orders food from a company in another city. We optimize the website for your town and your area, connect it to your Google profile, and write the copy clearly, in plain language. More on this in our guide to local SEO.

More and more often, people ask an AI assistant directly, "which catering company would you recommend for a wedding in area X." This is where AEO comes in — the way we build your website so it can be understood and cited by these assistants: clear information about the area, event types, capacity, and how to order. You can read how it works in the article about what AEO/GEO is. We don't promise guaranteed positions, because no one serious can promise that, but we lay the groundwork properly from the start.

If you'd like to see concretely how it would look, we'll build you a free website mockup with your catering company's name on it — with a gallery, event packages, and a quote form. You see it, you click through it, and if you like it we go further. Send us your company name and the kind of events you cover, and we'll prepare it for you, with no obligations and no hidden costs.