A Leverhaus service line for food businesses

Catering is already in the kitchen. The booking path is what’s missing.

Catering is already in the kitchen. The booking path is what’s missing.

Catering is already in the kitchen. The booking path is what’s missing.

Book a free 30-minute catering audit

Book a free 30-minute catering audit

Catering tickets are bigger than a typical ticket at the counter. We make that channel bookable — without flooding a kitchen that can’t take more events.

Dine-in margins are thin. Catering can be the steadier channel — bigger tickets, repeat event clients — but only if people can find it, quote it, and hear back. Most independent food businesses already get asked to cater. The leak is mechanical:

Dine-in margins are thin. Catering can be the steadier channel — bigger tickets, repeat event clients — but only if people can find it, quote it, and hear back. Most independent food businesses already get asked to cater. The leak is mechanical:

A planner lands on Instagram and cannot tap through to catering.

The form (or the DM) sits with no owner and no confirm.

No packages, no starting range — so buyers never inquire.

The clients most likely to book you are not hunting Yelp. Nobody is reaching out.

We install the visibility, the booking flow, and — when the kitchen can take more events — the outreach. Catering becomes a system, not a lucky walk-in.

We install the visibility, the booking flow, and — when the kitchen can take more events — the outreach. Catering becomes a system, not a lucky walk-in.

1

Make catering visible.

Profile CTAs, a catering highlight, link-in-bio to the form, listings cleanup, a packages-and-pricing one-pager.


Profile CTAs, a catering highlight, link-in-bio to the form, listings cleanup, a packages-and-pricing one-pager.

2

Make inquiries effortless.

Intake with the fields you need to quote, instant auto-confirm, a tracker, a named owner.


Intake with the fields you need to quote, instant auto-confirm, a tracker, a named owner.

3

Put you in front of the right buyers.

Researched outreach to event clients you can actually feed — done with you, not a blast in your name.

How fast this moves

Visibility fixes go live in days. Booking systems in about a week. Outreach builds over weeks. We always start with the fastest-impact gap.

How fast this moves

Visibility in days. Booking in about a week. Outreach over weeks, and only after we know the kitchen can handle it.

An operations partner who builds the system.

An operations partner who builds the system.

An operations partner who builds the system.

Systems and follow-up, not slide decks.

Outreach we run with your approval, not a PDF of names.

Intake and quoting that a human still signs off.

Built for independent, community, and heritage food brands.

Established independents who already get asked to cater: restaurants, BBQ and soul-food spots, pizzerias, delis, taquerias, cultural and heritage brands, dedicated caterers with no booking engine.

Established independents who already get asked to cater: restaurants, BBQ and soul-food spots, pizzerias, delis, taquerias, cultural and heritage brands, dedicated caterers with no booking engine.

Not a fit: Brand-new spots with no following, or kitchens that cannot take another event this month.

Not a fit: Brand-new spots with no following, or kitchens that cannot take another event this month.

Pricing

Pricing

Pricing

Catering Visibility Kit

Starting at $300 | Bio, link, and CTA fixes so your existing audience can find catering in one tap.

Booking System Setup

Starting at $500 | A tracked intake path so every inquiry has a clear owner and a next step.

Catering Starter Sprint

Starting at $1,500 | Visibility + booking automation + a first outreach push to qualified local leads. 30-day test.

Catering Growth Engine

Starting at $1,500/month | Ongoing lead generation, outreach management, and reporting once the sprint proves out.

Not sure which fits? Most issues involve both visibility and booking. The Starter Sprint bundles both plus a first outreach push, so you’re not paying twice for setup. A free 30-minute audit will tell you which tier actually fits before you commit.

Not sure which fits? Most issues involve both visibility and booking. The Starter Sprint bundles both plus a first outreach push, so you’re not paying twice for setup. A free 30-minute audit will tell you which tier actually fits before you commit.

Book a free 30-minute catering audit

Book a free 30-minute catering audit

Restaurant food served at a table

No risk to find out.

No risk to find out.

On a 30-minute call I’ll show you where catering is leaking — last-mile path, follow-up, or demand — and the one fix that matters first. You keep the findings.


The first project is small, with the price agreed before you start. No long lock-in. What we build is yours. You only grow into a retainer if the work is already paying for itself.

On a 30-minute call I’ll show you where catering is leaking — last-mile path, follow-up, or demand — and the one fix that matters first. You keep the findings.


The first project is small, with the price agreed before you start. No long lock-in. What we build is yours. You only grow into a retainer if the work is already paying for itself.

What a Catering Engine build looks like

What a Catering Engine build looks like

Picture an established independent with a loyal following and a catering page that still makes planners work too hard: homepage instead of the form, a form that cannot be quoted from, no packages, no named owner after submit. In 30 days we connect the path, install intake, and — if the kitchen can take the volume — run a first batch of high-fit buyers.

(Illustrative. Named results only with written permission.)

Picture an established independent with a loyal following and a catering page that still makes planners work too hard: homepage instead of the form, a form that cannot be quoted from, no packages, no named owner after submit. In 30 days we connect the path, install intake, and — if the kitchen can take the volume — run a first batch of high-fit buyers.

(Illustrative. Named results only with written permission.)

No risk to find out.

On a 30-minute call I’ll show you where catering is leaking — last-mile path, follow-up, or demand — and the one fix that matters first. You keep the findings.


The first project is small, with the price agreed before you start. No long lock-in. What we build is yours. You only grow into a retainer if the work is already paying for itself.

What a Catering Engine build looks like

Picture an established independent with a loyal following and a catering page that still makes planners work too hard: homepage instead of the form, a form that cannot be quoted from, no packages, no named owner after submit. In 30 days we connect the path, install intake, and — if the kitchen can take the volume — run a first batch of high-fit buyers.

(Illustrative. Named results only with written permission.)

Common catering-growth questions

Common catering-growth questions

Common catering-growth questions

Do I need to change my menu or operations?

No. We don’t touch recipes or how you cook. We will ask what you can actually fulfill (days, kitchen, lead time) before any outreach. If the line is already at the limit, we only fix visibility and booking — we don’t go generate more event demand.

What does the audit actually involve?

A live 30-minute conversation, not a 40-page report. I review your setup first, then we walk the gaps and pick one starting fix.

How long until I see results?

Visibility in days. Booking about a week. Outreach over weeks.

Is there a contract or lock-in?

The starter sprint is a 30-day test. Monthly work is a second conversation, after the sprint.

Why Leverhaus

Merry Jones

Merry Jones

Principal

I spent 20+ years inside Fortune 500 companies, a national bank, consulting firms, healthcare organizations, and nonprofits, solving the operational problems that quietly slow good teams down. I turn messy, manual processes into systems that run themselves.


Food is where that work gets personal. I love how different cultures cook and gather — and I kept noticing the same thing at restaurants I admired: incredible food, a loyal following, real community trust… and catering, often their most neglected channel, left almost completely unbuilt. No visibility, no booking system, no one reaching out to the clients who’d happily hire them.


That’s exactly the kind of problem I’ve spent my career fixing. The Catering Engine pairs senior judgment with systems that do the heavy lifting — so you’re not handing your catering to a junior automation shop. You’re working with someone who respects what you’ve built and knows how to turn the attention you already have into inquiries that get answered.


If you’ve built something people love and catering already shows up in the DMs, I’d like to look at the path.

I spent 20+ years inside Fortune 500 companies, a national bank, consulting firms, healthcare organizations, and nonprofits, solving the operational problems that quietly slow good teams down. I turn messy, manual processes into systems that run themselves.


Food is where that work gets personal. I love how different cultures cook and gather — and I kept noticing the same thing at restaurants I admired: incredible food, a loyal following, real community trust… and catering, often their most neglected channel, left almost completely unbuilt. No visibility, no booking system, no one reaching out to the clients who’d happily hire them.


That’s exactly the kind of problem I’ve spent my career fixing. The Catering Engine pairs senior judgment with systems that do the heavy lifting — so you’re not handing your catering to a junior automation shop. You’re working with someone who respects what you’ve built and knows how to turn the attention you already have into inquiries that get answered.


If you’ve built something people love and catering already shows up in the DMs, I’d like to look at the path.

Email: merry@leverhaus.co

Phone: (213) 875-5100

Not ready to talk yet? Start here.

Not ready to talk yet? Start here.

Not ready to talk yet? Start here.

Get the free Catering Revenue Checklist →

Get the free Catering Revenue Checklist →

Get the free Catering Revenue

Checklist →

Grab the free Catering Revenue Checklist: the 12 things every food business needs in place to turn attention into catering bookings. Download it now, and book a free audit when you're ready to walk through the gaps.


Have a question first? Send it with the form. No cost, no obligation.

Grab the free Catering Revenue Checklist: the 12 things every food business needs in place to turn attention into catering bookings. Download it now, and book a free audit when you’re ready to walk through the gaps. Have a question first? Send it with the form. No cost, no obligation.

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Let’s make catering bookable.

Let’s make catering bookable.

Let’s make catering bookable.


Start with a free 30-minute audit. We’ll show you where it’s leaking and what to fix first.


Start with a free 30-minute audit. We’ll show you where it’s leaking and what to fix first.


Start with a free 30-minute audit. We’ll show you where it’s leaking and what to fix first.


Book a free 30-minute catering audit

Book a free 30-minute catering audit