Catering request form
Event date, guest count, menu interest, budget, and contact info, captured completely.
Automate catering requests, review follow-ups, and the questions you answer every day.
Catering inquiries are your highest-ticket leads, and the easiest to lose during a dinner rush. JK Automation builds systems that capture the big requests, answer the repeat questions, and turn happy tables into public reviews.
Sound familiar?
A restaurant’s most valuable inquiries arrive at its busiest moments. The $3,000 catering email lands mid-rush and gets answered Thursday, after they booked elsewhere. Meanwhile staff answer "what are your hours?" for the tenth time today. Both problems have the same fix: systems that respond instantly so your people can focus on service.
- Catering inquiries missed or answered too late
- Repetitive questions about hours, menu, reservations, and events
- Weak review follow-up
- Manual customer promotions
- Disorganized private event requests
- Staff time burned on the phone
Common automations for restaurants
Built on tools you mostly already use: Gmail, Google Sheets, your calendar, simple forms, and texting. No bloated software, no steep learning curve.
Event inquiry workflow
Private event requests confirmed instantly and tracked to a decision.
Review request automation
Happy customers get a friendly review link at the right moment.
Customer promo email list
Specials and events reach your regulars without manual sends.
FAQ auto-answers
Hours, parking, reservations, dietary options, answered instantly on every channel.
Reservation inquiry routing
Booking questions route to the right place automatically.
Google Sheet catering tracker
Every event lead’s status visible at a glance.
An example workflow
A customer submits a catering request through your form.
The system captures event date, guest count, menu interest, budget, and contact info.
They get an instant confirmation, so they stop shopping around.
The request lands in your catering tracker and notifies the right person.
A follow-up reminder fires if it hasn’t been answered by your deadline.
Before and after
Before
A $3,000 catering email arrives during Friday rush and surfaces Tuesday, they booked elsewhere Monday. Staff answer the same ten questions all day, and reviews only appear when an upset customer writes one.
After
Catering leads get instant confirmation and land in a tracked queue with follow-up deadlines. Common questions answer themselves on every channel. Happy customers get asked for reviews while the meal is still a good memory.
Recommended first automation
Catering & private event request system
It protects your highest-ticket revenue first. One captured catering event can be worth a hundred covers, and right now those leads are competing with a dinner rush for attention. Instant confirmation plus tracked follow-up wins the bookings you’re currently losing to faster responders.
What can I automate?
Pick your biggest struggle and get a practical automation idea in seconds, the same kind of guided system JK Automation builds for clients. (Your industry is already selected.)
A practical fit, not an agency pitch
Built by one person you’ll actually talk to
JK Automation is John Kwolek, Pittsburgh-based, 18+ years in business operations. You work with the builder, not an account manager.
Your tools, not new ones
Systems are built around Gmail, Sheets, your calendar, and texting, the things you already use, so nothing new has to be learned.
Start small, win fast
One focused system with one clear payoff. No big retainers, no twelve-month roadmaps, just the first win, then the next.
Plain English, honest scope
No jargon, no fake guarantees. Every recommendation comes from an actual review of how your business runs.
Restaurants ask these a lot
We barely have time to manage what we have. Who runs this?
Nobody, that’s the point. The system confirms, tracks, and reminds on its own. Your team only steps in to say yes to an event or read a five-star review.
Does this replace our reservation platform?
No, it works alongside whatever you use for reservations. This covers the gaps those platforms don’t: catering, private events, FAQs, reviews, and promos.
What does it cost?
Depends on scope, no made-up numbers. Most restaurants start with one system (usually catering intake) priced for an independent operation. The free workflow review ends with real pricing.
Can it post or respond on Google and Facebook?
It can route inquiries from those channels into one queue and help you answer fast with templates. Anything that publishes publicly stays under your control, nothing posts without your say-so.
See what your restaurant can automate.
A free 30-minute workflow review finds the leaks between your busiest hours and your biggest leads.
Prefer email or a call? john@automatewithjk.com · (412) 215-9692