Chronolio for Caterers & Catering Managers
Every event you cater has a program you don't control and a kitchen schedule that has to respond to it anyway. Chronolio keeps fire times, pacing, and bar service synced to what's actually happening in the room.
The job, as it actually is
You fire courses against a program someone else runs
Speeches run twenty minutes long and nobody tells the kitchen — the next course fires late and cold, or on time and sits under a heat lamp waiting for applause to end, and either way it's your name on the review afterward.
Every event is a different room, timeline, and headcount
Monday's wedding, Wednesday's gala, and Friday's corporate dinner each need their own service schedule built from scratch — there's no shared structure across a calendar full of different hosts, different room layouts, and different expectations.
Bar demand spikes independently of the meal
Cocktail hour, the toast, and last call each create a bar rush at a different moment than the kitchen's — staffing off the meal schedule alone leaves the bar short exactly when it matters most to the guests still standing.
Where Chronolio fits your workflow
Build service around the host's real program
Sync fire times to the actual event schedule — speeches, toasts, entertainment — instead of an assumed one, so courses respond to what is genuinely happening in the room, not a version of the evening that was already wrong at 6pm.
Learn more about AI Timeline Generator →A program that runs long, recalculated instantly
Speeches overrun by twenty minutes: bulk-shift the affected block and every fire time, clear, and bar peak after it adjusts, instead of the kitchen improvising off a stale printout.
Learn more about Bulk Editing & Assignment →One structure, reused across every event
Save your standard plated-dinner or buffet-service structure as a template and adapt it per client — the pacing logic stays, only the specifics change, so Wednesday's gala isn't built from a blank page either.
Learn more about Template Library →A schedule the client and the kitchen both trust
Share the live timeline with the planner or venue and export a clean prep schedule for the kitchen — both built from the same source, so they can't drift apart no matter how the evening actually unfolds.
Learn more about Sharing & Participants →Free guides & templates
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Common questions
Can I sync fire times to speeches and toasts instead of a fixed clock?
Yes — build the service timeline around the event's real program blocks, so a course can hold until toasts finish instead of firing on a schedule the room isn't following.
Can I reuse a service structure across different clients?
Yes — save your plated-dinner, buffet, or family-style pacing as a template and adapt the specifics — guest count, courses, timing — for each new event.
How does the kitchen see updates when the program changes on the day?
Share the live link with the kitchen so the prep schedule isn't the only version in the building — when the timeline updates, everyone with the link sees it immediately.