You cannot publish a price, so the form has to do the qualifying.
You cannot publish a price, so the website has to do the qualifying instead. The caterers who win are the ones whose enquiry form produces a brief you can quote from, rather than another "please send me your pricing".
Every enquiry is a different headcount, on a different date, in a different room.
Three things that make this trade its own problem
"Can you send me your pricing?"
A plain contact box produces an enquiry with none of the five things you need to price anything. Three emails later you learn it is forty people on a date you are already booked for.
Corporate and social are different sales
One is a repeat account with a purchase order and a standing Thursday lunch. The other is a once-in-a-lifetime wedding with a mother-in-law attached. One page cannot talk to both of them.
The gallery is three years old
Grazing tables, plated service, a room set for two hundred. The work photographs beautifully and hardly anybody shoots it, so your whole credibility argument is a folder of phone snaps from a wedding nobody remembers.
Where we would start
- Website DevelopmentSeparate corporate and event paths, each with its own menus, its own gallery and its own enquiry route, instead of one contact page trying to serve a board lunch and a wedding.→
- Forms, Portals & AutomationsAn enquiry flow that collects date, headcount, venue, service style and dietary requirements, so a proposal can go back the same day while they are still deciding.→
- SEOEvent-type-and-city pages plus a page for each venue you regularly work in, because caterers get searched for alongside the room at least as often as on their own.→
- Email MarketingThe corporate account programme — the standing orders and repeat bookings where catering revenue actually compounds instead of starting from zero each January.→
Local or national — where this one is actually decided
Local to regional, bounded by how far the vans will go on the day. Relationships with venues and event planners move more work than rankings ever will.
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