Clients, events, costed recipes, allergens, vendors, staff, venues — one record each.
Catering & Restaurant · AI Agentic Operating System
The operating system that runs the kitchen, the event, and the truck.
One live core for every event order, recipe, shift, and vendor. Nine agents doing the coordination work. And a camera at the pass that checks every plate before it ships.
In pilot with a multi-brand hospitality group · Toronto + Miami
The core
Eight layers. One source of truth.
The atomic unit of catering is the event order. Yes Chef makes it computable — change a guest count and the prep lists, purchase orders, staffing plan, and invoice update themselves.
L0Data Core
L1Revenue Engine
Inquiry → tasting → proposal → contract, priced from real recipe costs.
L2Event Production
The live BEO: timeline, staffing, rentals, transport, run-of-show.
L3Culinary Ops
Confirmed events explode into prep lists, stations, and purchase orders.
L4Workforce
Event-crew scheduling with certifications and no-show risk scoring.
L5Quality & Compliance
Digital HACCP, temp chains, and AI vision QC on every tray.
L6Finance
True job costing per event; live P&L per brand, venue, and city.
L7Intelligence
Menu margins, venue yield, waste trends, demand forecasts.
The flagship
A chef's eye on every plate that leaves the building.
- Photograph at the pass. A phone or fixed tablet per pack-out station — no special hardware.
- Scored against the chef's standard. Dish identified, presentation scored, portion and garnish checked against gold-standard references.
- Allergens cross-checked. Visible ingredients and labels verified against the event's dietary matrix — the mismatch gets caught before the truck, not at the table.
- Every inspection on the record. Photo, score, station, and timestamp — a chain of custody for venue partners, insurers, and inspections.
PASS — SHIP IT
Braised short rib · portion +2% · garnish present · label matches BEO · score 98
FLAG — CHEF REVIEW
Canapé tray labeled GF — contents include standard arancini. Held at the pass.
FAIL — TRAY BLOCKED
Wrong dish for the gluten-free table order. Remake ordered, incident logged.
The agentic layer
Nine agents. The coordination work disappears.
Each agent has one job, real data access, and a human approval gate wherever money or a client is touched.
Intake answers every inquiry in minutes
Proposal drafts priced, branded proposals
Production explodes BEOs into prep & purchasing
Procurement watches vendor prices, proposes swaps
Staffing fills shifts, backfills no-shows
Day-of Ops tracks load-out to the minute
Vision QC gates every tray at the pass
Post-Event invoices, reconciles, logs preferences
Exec Brief the whole company, every morning
Built inside a real operation. Made to license across the industry.
Every multi-brand caterer, hotel banquet team, and stadium concessionaire runs the same fragmented stack. Yes Chef replaces it with one core — proven on real events first.
Enter the OS