Chronolio for Catering & Private Dining Events
Every wedding, gala, and corporate dinner has a second schedule hiding inside it: the kitchen's. Chronolio keeps fire times, course pacing, and bar service synced to the host's program instead of guessed at.
The problems you know too well
The kitchen fires against a program it doesn't control
Speeches run twenty minutes long and nobody tells the kitchen — the next course either fires late and cold, or on time and sits under a heat lamp waiting for applause to end, and either way the kitchen takes the blame.
Course pacing is a schedule, not a guess
Plated service for 150 needs real minutes per course — service, clearing, the next fire — and "we'll pace it by feel" is how a three-hour dinner becomes a four-hour one, with staff overtime nobody accounted for.
Bar service has its own peaks the kitchen schedule ignores
Cocktail hour, the toast, and last call each spike bar demand at a different moment — staffing the bar off the meal schedule alone means being short-handed exactly when it matters.
How Chronolio handles it
Sync the kitchen to the host's program
Build the service timeline against the actual event schedule — speeches, toasts, entertainment — so fire times respond to the real program instead of an assumed one that was wrong before service even started.
Learn more about AI Timeline Generator →A twenty-minute overrun, recalculated instantly
Speeches run long: bulk-shift the affected block and every fire time, clear, and bar peak after it adjusts — instead of the kitchen improvising from a stale printout that was accurate an hour ago.
Learn more about Bulk Editing & Assignment →Categories for kitchen, bar, and floor
Color-code fire times, bar service, and floor staff so each team reads their own moments at a glance on a shared timeline, instead of parsing someone else's handwritten notes mid-service.
Learn more about Categories & Icons →One schedule, kitchen and client 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 disagree on when the next course fires, no matter how the program shifts during the event.
Learn more about Sharing & Participants →Sample timeline: Plated dinner service, 150 guests
Generate a timeline like this for your own event in seconds — try it free.
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Common questions
Can I sync course fire times to speeches and toasts?
Yes — build the service timeline around the event's real program blocks, so a fire time can hold until toasts finish instead of firing on a fixed clock the room isn't following.
How does the kitchen stay updated when the program runs long?
Bulk-shift the affected block and every course, clear, and bar peak after it recalculates. Share the live link with the kitchen so the printed prep schedule isn't the only version in the building.
Can I plan bar staffing separately from the meal schedule?
Yes — categorize bar service as its own track so its peaks (cocktail hour, toasts, last call) are visible independently of the kitchen's course timing.
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