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Request the catering checklist with your name and email in the form on this page. It covers five points that event plans often miss: power load, waste and empties, crew meals, teardown, and special diets. BookForm handles the request, and the article explains each point.

By Christian Bickel

What is on the checklist this form sends?

The template covers power, waste and empties, crew food, strike, and special diets.

For power, asking whether a socket exists is not enough. The list asks for the plug type and which machines share a phase. Coffee machine, combi oven, and chafing dishes each have a line.

For dishes, the list asks for the path back, a zone guests cannot see, and bins for food waste. If the crew takes the waste away, that is its own point.

Crew food and breaks have a clock time. Strike has lockout times, the path to the vehicle, and whether the goods lift still runs at night. Special diets have a count and a seat.

What does the form ask, and what happens next?

The form asks for a name and an email. The request runs through BookForm, not through a Cater.Work account.

You enter name and email in the form on this page. An app registration is not required. BookForm handles the request and sends the template to that address.

The template is a list to tick before the next event. It does not create an event in Cater.Work and it does not staff anyone. A point becomes a shift, a file, or a briefing only when you add it there.

A second request with the same address is allowed. This page has no monthly cap and no payment. The list is free. It does not replace a site visit.

When does a point become a shift, and when only a file?

A clock time and a headcount become a shift. A plan or a photo becomes a file on the event.

Strike with a start and an end is a shift, including after midnight. The crew break is a time in the same plan. A socket drawing from the venue is a file, not a role.

Special diets are a catalog line with a count, plus a sentence in the service briefing. The sentence names the seat. Without a seat the count has no recipient.

Anything said only in the car park is neither a shift nor a file. A person who joins later will not see it. Move the point onto the event before invites go out.

What does the crew see of this list, and what stays in the office?

The crew sees the briefing, place, time, and files of their own shift. They do not see the raw checklist.

After a yes, the app opens time, place, colleagues, instructions, and files. The instruction is where power, waste, food, strike, and diets reach that person. A separate PDF does not have to sit in a chat.

Internal notes about the venue stay with the office. Ratings per role stay hidden from the crew. The checklist from this form is a template for the office, not a message to everyone.

A reminder hours before the start goes to people who accepted. It reminds them of the shift, not of every tick. The ticks have to be translated into an instruction or a file first.

Where does the template stop?

The template names five points that are often forgotten. It does not plan the event and it does not know your venue.

Sockets, bins, and the goods lift differ at every address. The list asks the question. You write the answer, on paper or as an instruction on the event. Cater.Work does not invent the drawing.

Without a count and a seat, a special diet is only a heading. The number and the table come from the client and belong on the event. Two vegan menus and one coeliac guest are two lines.

This page does not collect shift times or people. That is what the event is for, with a role, a headcount, and a time. The request here ends when the template reaches your inbox.

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