Trestle
Early access

Big catering orders, without the big admin

Trestle is an online ordering platform for bakeries and restaurants that cater for workplaces. Customers plan and order by themselves, your kitchen gets a prep sheet and allergen labels, your drivers get a route, and your invoices chase themselves.

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  • Runs on your own domain
  • Nothing for customers to install
  • Card, invoice and cash
  • Built for UK VAT
Watch the tour

Trestle in 35 seconds

A team orders lunch from your menu, then your kitchen gets its prep sheet, allergen labels, delivery run and capacity calendar, all under your own name and colours.

The businesses, customers and orders in the video are made up for the demo.
What it does

Everything between the order and the invoice

Six areas that together take a catering order from a customer's first click to the money in your account.

Planner

Forty guests, twelve pounds a head, three vegans. Sorted.

Your customer tells the planner the guests, the meal and the budget a head. It offers three options, from best value to something special, covers the dietary needs first and trims the sweet course to fit the budget. They pick one and check out.

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Orders

Every order knows where it is.

Eight statuses from placed to delivered, with the full history kept on every order. Customers get an order page with calendar links, change requests, messages and one click reorder. Your team gets an inbox, so nothing waits in someone's email.

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Capacity

Say yes to the right days.

A five week calendar shows the guests booked against your limit for each day and slot, with the rota alongside. Orders taken over the phone warn before you overbook, so you never promise a Thursday the kitchen cannot deliver.

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Kitchen

The kitchen gets the list, not the emails.

A prep sheet that puts dietary needs first, then totals by category with every package unpacked into its items. Allergen labels print fourteen to an A4 sheet, each with the guest's name and their allergens in bold.

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Deliveries

Drivers get a route, customers get a photo.

Each day's deliveries become a map with numbered stops and a link that opens on the driver's phone. One tap sends On my way to the customer, and a proof of delivery photo closes the order.

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Company accounts

Companies buy the way companies buy.

Set an approval limit and named approvers for each company, and any order above the limit waits for a yes. Send one invoice a month, and let the reminders go out by themselves at 1, 8 and 22 days overdue.

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What your customers see

Five steps from a link to lunch

Nothing to install and no account to make. Here is the whole journey as a customer sees it.

  1. 1

    Open the link

    You send a customer their private link once. They open it on any device, with no app and no password.

  2. 2

    Choose a route

    Those who know what they want go straight to the menu. Those who need inspiration tell the planner the guests, the meal and the budget.

  3. 3

    Check out their way

    A purchase order reference if they need one, delivery or collection, a time slot, and card, invoice or cash.

  4. 4

    Guests say what they cannot eat

    A guest list link collects dietary needs from each guest, so the kitchen hears it first hand.

  5. 5

    Feedback the morning after

    A short request for a score and a comment, with one click to reorder the same again.

Pricing

Simple plans for growing bakeries

One flat monthly price for each kitchen, with no charge per order. Start on the plan that fits today and move when you grow.

  • Counter

    For one kitchen taking its first workplace orders online.

    £79a month

    Includes

    • One kitchen, unlimited orders
    • Ordering site on your own domain
    • Planner with three options
    • Prep sheets and allergen labels
    • Email support
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  • Most bakeries

    Kitchen

    For a kitchen with company customers and its own drivers.

    £149a month

    Includes

    • Everything in Counter
    • Company accounts and approvals
    • Monthly invoices and reminders
    • Deliveries and driver links
    • Accounting exports for Xero and QuickBooks
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  • Group

    For more than one site or brand.

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    Includes

    • Everything in Kitchen
    • More than one site or brand
    • Supplier ordering
    • Set up and training on site
    • A named contact
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Indicative prices while Trestle is in early access. Every plan is agreed on a demo call.

Questions

The things bakery owners ask first

Do my customers need an account?

No. Customers order from a private link with no password and nothing to install. Company details such as approval limits and invoicing sit on your side, not theirs.

How do customers pay?

By card through your own Stripe account, which is connected at set up, or on invoice, or in cash. You choose which to offer, and you can set it per customer.

Does it connect to Xero or QuickBooks?

Invoices and payments export as CSV files with VAT on every line, in the format Xero and QuickBooks import. There is no live connection today.

Where is my data?

You get your own installation and your own database, hosted in the UK. Your orders, customers and menu are never mixed with another business's.

How does it handle allergens?

Products carry the fourteen UK allergens, customers can filter by them, and the prep sheet and labels put dietary needs first. These help accuracy, but they do not replace your own checks in the kitchen.

How long does set up take?

Usually a few hours together on a call. We load your menu, connect your domain and payments, and walk your team through orders, the kitchen and deliveries.

See it with your own menu.

Book a thirty minute demo. We will show you the platform with a menu like yours, answer your questions and talk through set up.

No commitment, and we reply within one working day.

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