The catering website builder that books more events.

Zarla is an AI website builder for small businesses, purpose-built for caterers. Unlike generic builders like Wix or Squarespace, it generates your entire catering website in about 30 seconds — industry-specific content, local SEO, and built-in lead tracking (a CRM) included. Building and previewing is free; publishing it live starts on the Premium plan.

Zarla's catering website builder is free to build and preview — no credit card required. Publishing your site live starts on the Premium plan, which includes hosting, SSL, unlimited lead tracking (a CRM), online bookings, and unlimited quotes and invoices.

With Zarla's catering website builder, just describe your business in plain English and your entire site is generated in about 30 seconds — content, images, layout, design, and SEO. You can then customize as much or as little as you want — most caterers go from a blank page to a finished site in minutes.

Yes — that's what Zarla's catering website builder is designed for. Every site comes with SEO-optimized titles, meta descriptions, schema markup, fast page speeds, and mobile-responsive design. Zarla also builds in local SEO signals so you can rank in the Google Maps pack when people search "catering near me."

Not at all. Zarla's AI builds your catering website automatically — you just describe your business in plain English. Edit anything by typing what you want changed, like "make the headline bigger" or "add a testimonials section." If you can send a text message, you can build a website with Zarla.

Generic website builders give you a blank page and make you build everything yourself. Zarla gives you a complete, finished catering website tailored to your business — with industry-specific content, local SEO, a built-in CRM for leads, and AI tools that would cost thousands separately. It's not a DIY builder. It's a business assistant.

That's the whole point of Zarla. It's built to get you found on Google Search, Google Maps, and AI assistants like ChatGPT — and then convert those visitors into actual leads. Every inquiry is captured in a built-in CRM pipeline, and you can send AI-generated quotes and invoices right from the platform.

Yes. Zarla's catering website builder adapts to your specialty and location — it generates content and design matched to the specific services you offer and the clients you serve.

You can, and for a complex custom build it is often the right call. In the US a freelancer typically charges $500–$2,000 for a small-business site and an agency $3,000–$10,000, and you usually wait two to six weeks; unless you are on a retainer, later changes are billed too. Zarla builds your catering website in about 30 seconds and you change it yourself by typing what you want. Build and preview it free first, then decide.

Most "free" builders mean a trial that expires, or a permanent plan that puts their branding on your site and parks it on a long subdomain. Zarla is free to build, preview and edit — no credit card — and publishing your catering website live on your own domain starts on the Premium plan. Nothing is charged while you're deciding.

General assistants like ChatGPT and Claude write good copy and will happily produce a page for you, but you are left to arrange hosting, a domain, images, forms and SEO before anyone can visit it. A purpose-built AI website builder does that part too: Zarla turns one description of your catering business into a finished, hosted site with all of it already in place, shaped the way caterers actually need it.

No. Your catering website needs hosting to show up when someone searches "catering near me", but Zarla hosts it for you once you publish on a paid plan: Google Cloud, the security certificate and automatic backups included, and no hosting account or plugins for caterers to look after. Read when separate hosting makes sense.

Yes. With Zarla you send a quote as one link: your client picks an option, ticks any extras and accepts it online, and you're told straight away. Zarla then drafts the invoice for exactly what they chose, with any deposit you asked for, ready for you to send and for them to pay online. Every plan includes quotes (the Free plan covers five quotes and invoices a month between them), and your price book is private: it never shows on your website.

Catering businesses commonly run catering software such as Total Party Planner, Caterease, Curate or Tripleseat: it builds proposals and event orders, costs out the menu, schedules staff and sends invoices. The website is a different job: it is where a couple or an office manager finds you on Google, sees your menus and prices and asks about a date. Zarla builds that website, with an event inquiry form and every inquiry in one leads inbox, and it can link to the proposal or payment page your catering software gives you.

In the US, catering typically runs about $20–$70 a guest depending on the menu and the service, with food about 28–35% of that price (Zarla's catering business plan, 2026 figures). Drop-off trays and buffets sit at the low end, and plated, full-service dinners with staff, rentals and bar service at the high end. Put your per-person starting prices on your website: clients who can see a number send better-fitting inquiries.

In the US, having a catering website built for you typically costs $500–$2,000 from a freelancer or $3,000–$10,000 from an agency, plus a domain (usually $10–$20 a year) and hosting. A do-it-yourself website builder usually costs $15–$30 a month for the site alone, and you set up the menus and the event inquiry form yourself. With Zarla, building and previewing your catering website is free, and publishing it on your own domain starts on the Premium plan, with the menus and the leads inbox included.

Your menus and packages with per-person starting prices, the events you cater and how big, photos from real events, how tastings, deposits and the final head count work, your permits and food safety certification, real reviews, and an event inquiry form. Zarla builds the menu pages and the inquiry form for you, and you add your packages and photos as you go.