What we do
Kater is the infrastructure layer that powers Africa’s corporate catering vendors. Instead of juggling WhatsApp messages, Google Forms, and handwritten lists, vendors use Kater to streamline how they collect daily orders, enforce cut-off times, organize meals, and invoice clients.
Whether you’re feeding 50 or 500 employees, Kater helps you run with structure, replacing chaos with clean dashboards, prep lists, and automated payment flows. It’s not just software. It’s a system built for the kitchens behind Africa’s workforce.
Our core modules
Order Facilitation & Aggregation
Kater gives each of your corporate clients their own branded ordering portal, complete with cut-off times, delivery schedules, and co-pay configurations. As employees place orders through the portal, Kater aggregates everything into a real-time prep dashboard. You get one clean view of what meals to prepare, how many portions, and for which company. No more manual tallies or late-night guesswork, just structured data that powers your kitchen every day.
Menu Management
Build and manage your digital menus with flexibility. Upload meals, tag them by category (e.g. Regular, Premium, Vegetarian), and assign them to specific . Turn meals on/off by day or portal. Whether you serve one company or ten, Kater keeps your menus in sync with your operations.
Embedded Tools
Beyond software, Kater comes with built-in operational power-ups. Print packaging labels with employee names and meal selections. Track fulfillment status to avoid missed deliveries. And after 90 days of usage, unlock access to short-term financing tied to your invoices, giving you the liquidity to buy ingredients without waiting for end-of-month payments. Kater isn’t just digital, it’s deeply operational.
How it works
How is this different?
We built Kater to solve our own chaos. Now we’re solving it for others.
We ran a full-service catering business, serving over 10,000 meals manually. Kater wasn’t built from assumptions. It was built from daily pain: late cut-offs, WhatsApp orders, manual prep sheets, and delayed payments. We’ve lived what other platforms try to guess. That’s why vendors trust Kater, and why it works.
