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Vendors + purchase orders

Stop emailing your produce guy a list of items at midnight. Apron Desk groups your week's needs by vendor and writes the PO.

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Vendors
Purchase orders

Week of 8 June · 4 orders · $2,457.00

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By vendor4
Greenfield ProducePO 0142 · lead 1 day · Net 14Sent$612.40
Harbour FishPO 0143 · lead 2 days · On deliveryDraft$388.00
Dale & Sons ButchersPO 0141 · lead 2 days · Net 30Received$1,204.60
Northern Linen HirePO 0139 · lead 5 days · Net 30Received$252.00
PO 0142 · Greenfield ProduceEmail POMark received
ItemNeedHaveOrderAmount
Heritage tomatoes38 kg6 kg32 kg$134.40
Shallots9 kg2 kg8 kg$24.80
Mixed leaves14 kg014 kg$137.20
Lemons18040140$63.00
Wild mushrooms11 kg011 kg$253.00
Deliver Thursday 11 June · Net 14$612.40
Mark received and the catalogue stock moves up by what arrived.
Sample workspace. Not a real client.The week's menus, minus what is on the shelf, grouped by who sells it.
What’s inside
  • Vendor records: contact, lead time, payment terms
  • Auto-grouped purchase orders by vendor for a given week
  • Mark received → catalog stock auto-updates
  • Linens by colour + size with reorder alerts
01

The PO writes itself

Pick a date range. Apron Desk runs order_list_by_vendor() against every confirmed event in the window and groups what to order from whom. Generate the POs as PDFs, email them, mark received as the trucks arrive, and the catalog stock updates so you know what's still pending.

02

Linens are their own thing

Tablecloths and napkins live in their own table because they're tracked by colour + size, not just SKU. Reorder points trigger an alert on the Today board when ivory rounds drop below 30, not after you ran out for the Saturday wedding.

Maître woven through

Maître drafts the POs and sends them to your vendors

Picking the right vendor for each item, calculating safety stock, drafting the email, the boring part. Maître handles all of it; you approve.

“Generate POs for next week's events”

MaîtreMaître scans confirmed events for the week, groups items by vendor, drafts a PO per vendor with quantities + delivery date, asks you to approve before sending.

“When are we going to run out of ivory napkins?”

MaîtreMaître reads stock + reorder point + booked events, projects when stock crosses zero, suggests a reorder date.

$50 of Maître work included monthly, metered at what the model costs us. Overage is off unless you turn it on. Read more on the Maître AI page.

Need something this page doesn’t mention?

We build custom features for individual customers starting at $10/month. If your idea is broadly useful to other catering operators, we may waive the monthly fee entirely and add it to the standard catalog. The first conversation is free and we’ll tell you which path applies.

How it works

Pairs well with

Catalog + recipes

Every dish, every bottle, every chafing dish, all in one catalog. Tag dietary, set cost, ship across every event. Recipes nest so plate cost auto-recomputes.

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Kitchen prep sheet

Pick a date range, see one cook list. Every event's menu items rolled up by station, with drill-down to the source events and a print-friendly view your kitchen team tapes to the wall.

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Pack lists + container labels

The list of every chafing dish, sterno, ladle, and napkin you load into the truck. Auto-built from the menu, varies by service style, with Avery 8163 labels you print same-screen.

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$425/month covers all 29 features.

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