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Guides describe. These ten planners calculate: how much to buy, what it costs, how many hands, how many bottles, what happens at 19:40, how many people fit around your table.
How much to buy
Quantity Calculator
Guest count, service style and menu shape turned into a shopping list in kilos, litres and pieces.
OpenWhat it should cost
Cost Planner
A full cost model for a private dinner: food, kitchen labour, service, rentals and logistics, by market and service style.
OpenHow many hands
Staff Planner
The brigade for your dinner: cooks, servers, bartenders and the captain.
OpenBottles, ice and glasses
Drinks Calculator
Champagne, wine, water, spirits, ice and the glass count for a reception, a dinner or both.
OpenWhat happens at 19:40
Service Timeline
A backwards plan from the minute your first course leaves the kitchen: crew arrival, prep, table setting, briefing, doors, courses, speeches, coffee and strike..
OpenDoes this menu work?
Menu Composer
Build a menu course by course and see the balance: weight, technique, temperature, colour, repetition, oven conflicts and a wine suggestion for each course..
OpenCan you cook here?
Location Kitchen Check
Tell the planner what kind of place you are cooking in and how many guests you have, and it returns the kitchen you need to build: power, water, space, cold storage, light and waste..
OpenThe kitchen document
Dietary Matrix
Turn your guest list into the document a kitchen can work from: how many of each requirement, what it changes on the menu, what must be cooked separately and what the service team needs to know..
OpenDoes it fit?
Table and Seating Planner
Room size, table shape and guest count turned into the table length you need, the seats that actually fit, the service lane, the linen sizes and the candle count..
OpenWhat is good this month
Produce Season Finder
Pick a month and a region and see what is genuinely in season: vegetables, fruit, fish, meat and the menus on this site that are built around them..
OpenAnd the quiz
The Private Dining Type Quiz
Eight courses or one fire? Fourteen friends or six? Eight questions, and we name your format, your menu and the chef profile that fits you.
How these work
Every planner runs in your browser. Nothing you type is sent to a server, nothing is stored anywhere but on your own device, and there is no account, no cookie banner and no tracking. The figures behind them are professional planning values for 2026, collected from rate cards, quotes and our own work, and each planner shows the assumption it applied so you can argue with it.
They are built to produce something you can send: a shopping list, a cost breakdown, a brigade with hours, a timeline, a kitchen hire list. Copy the result and put it in an email to your caterer, and the conversation starts two steps further along.