Zerocater, one of the largest corporate catering and cafeteria providers in North America, has launched CaterAi, a human-like AI agent that partners with you to plan catering for even the largest and most complex multi-day events. By combining deep catering expertise and proprietary data with advanced large language models, CaterAi responds to feedback in real time, instantly creating custom menus from thousands of restaurants, scheduling professional onsite catering staff to serve guests, and adding equipment and décor that align with the event’s theme.

Before CaterAi, planning catering for a large event typically took weeks and hundreds of emails and phone calls with multiple caterers for customers to find the menus, staff, and décor that aligned with their event’s theme and budget. Even for small events like happy hours, customers often spend up to an hour on food delivery apps searching for a restaurant and building menus that align with their event’s budget, theme, and guests’ taste and dietary preferences.

“Anyone who’s ever planned a catered event knows the frustration of spending hours chasing down caterers or trying to piece together a menu on a food delivery app and hoping you got it right for your guests,” said Ali Sabeti, CEO of Zerocater. “There’s no waiting or guessing with CaterAi, just tell it what you want, and within 5 minutes you’ll have the perfect menus, staffing, and decor for even the largest and most complex event.”

CaterAi was built using the proprietary data and catering expertise Zerocater has gained over the last 15 years, feeding some of the largest companies in North America. The vision was to create a human-like AI agent with the same depth of menu planning and catering knowledge as the most tenured chefs and operations teams. By combining that expertise with advanced large language models, CaterAi can now fully plan and execute any catered event, from creating custom menus in minutes from more than 1,000 restaurants and caterers to adding staff and décor for multi-day events with over 5,000 guests.

"CaterAi virtually holds your hand through your event meal ordering to ensure nothing is missed and your team gets something that feels special instead of just DoorDashed,” says Sarah Redman, Office Manager at Druva.