For home cooks · plate sales · caterers · repasts & cookouts

Sunday plates,sold out by Friday.

Stop taking orders in your DMs. A designed website, a real order page with pickup windows and cutoffs, your own business line, and payment links that hit before the plates do.

Not just an order link

The whole kitchen, in the box.

Everything a plate-sale cook or caterer runs a business on — set up for you the day you sign up, all under your name.

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A real website built by StartMyOwn

A real website — designed for you

Not a template with your name pasted in. A designed one-page site with your menus, story, gallery, and ordering — built for your business and live on the internet the same day. Change your pickup hours by text and the site updates itself. (This one belongs to a caterer on the platform.)

Order-ahead with cutoffs

Pickup windows and order-by deadlines built in — your headcount locks before you shop for groceries.

Options on every item

Sizes, half-trays, “no onions” — real menu options with real prices, priced into the order automatically.

Event dates & deposits

Weddings, repasts, reunions — a deposit locks the date, and the balance link goes out by itself before the event.

Your own business line

A dedicated number for calls and texts — your personal cell stays personal.

An assistant that answers

Texts, calls, and website chat answered 24/7 in your voice — orders taken, questions answered, you looped in.

Tickets that text customers

Say “Maria’s order is ready” — she gets the text. Out for delivery, ready for pickup, all automatic.

Paid before you cook

Every order confirms through a secure payment link, straight to your bank through Stripe. Tips ride along when customers offer.

Delivery zones, your prices

Set the zips you deliver to and what each zone costs. Outside the zone? The assistant offers pickup instead.

Your customer book

Every customer, order, and payment in one place — regulars can even say “the usual.”

How it works

A whole business, built in an afternoon.

1

Sign up in minutes

Your menu, your prices, your pickup windows. Done.

2

Your storefront appears

A designed website, an order page with pickup windows, your own business line, and payments to your bank — stood up for you the same day. Drop the link in your bio and let it cook.

3

Get orders. Get paid first.

Payment links confirm every order before you shop for groceries. Event deposits and final-count cutoffs built in.

Built for how plate sales actually work

Order-ahead with cutoffs and deposits

Set your pickup date and your cutoff — “order by Friday for Sunday pickup.” Every order prepays through a secure link, so your headcount is real and your groceries are covered. Catering an event? Take a deposit now — the balance link texts itself to the customer before the event, right when the final headcount locks.

Live demo — not a mockup

Order from a real kitchen

This is a live demo kitchen running on StartMyOwn — the same AI your customers would text. Ask what's on the menu.

Powered by the same AI that answers your customers by text, phone, and web chat.

Hi! I can help with services, prices, and booking. Ask me anything.

Everything in the box

What your catering business can do

Your plan grows with you. Here's what's on from day one — and what unlocks as you do.

Included on every plan

Your own website

A live, professional site for your business

AI answers texts, calls & chat

Your receptionist that never sleeps

Get paid to your bank

Card payments settle straight to you

Online ordering

Take orders for pickup or delivery

Pickup windows & cutoffs

Only take orders you can actually fill

Sold-out toggle

86 an item in one text when you run out

"The usual" reorder

Regulars repeat their last order in one tap

Tips

Add a tip line at checkout

Age / consent gate

Require an age or consent check before checkout

Kitchen — $49/mo

Step up

Menu modifiers

Sizes, add-ons and options on any item

Event dates & deposits

Big catering orders with a lead time + deposit

Order tickets & status texts

Customers get a text as their order moves

Multiple chairs & staff

Per-person services, hours and bookings

Your own domain

Put your site on your own web address

Payment plans

Let customers pay a big ticket in installments

Restaurant — $79/mo

Step up

Multiple locations

Separate hours, staff and menus per location

Team payouts

Track what each staff member is owed

Pricing

Every plan starts with 14 days free.

Full access from day one — your site, your number, your assistant. Cancel anytime during the trial and pay nothing.

Cook

For plate sales & pop-ups

$29 /mo
  • Your website + order page
  • Your own business line
  • AI takes orders by text & chat
  • Pickup windows & cutoffs
  • Paid before you cook
Start 14 days free

Restaurant

For a full operation

$79 /mo
  • Everything in Kitchen
  • Multiple locations
  • Sell up to 5 retail products
  • Delivery zones
  • Staff roles
  • Priority support
Start 14 days free

Questions

Asked and answered.

Is this legal for home cooking?

Cottage-food laws in most states allow home food sales — and they keep expanding. StartMyOwn gives you the professional storefront; you follow your state’s cottage-food rules.

How do customers order?

Three ways, all yours: the order page link (drop it in your bio), texting your business number, or the chat on your site. The AI handles all of them.

When do I get paid?

Before you cook. Orders confirm only when the payment link is paid, straight to your bank through Stripe.

Can I do full-event catering too?

Yes — event-date orders with deposits are built in. The deposit locks the date, and the balance link goes to the customer automatically a few days before the event, right when you confirm the final headcount.

Do you handle delivery?

Your call. Set the zip codes you deliver to and the fee for each zone — the assistant adds the fee automatically and offers pickup to anyone outside your area.

Do I have to run everything by text?

Text is the fastest way — but your dashboard shows the same kitchen: live order tickets (tap “Ready” and the customer gets texted), your pickup hours, zones, and event rules, all editable. Same engine, your choice of steering wheel.

What does it cost?

Every plan starts with 14 days free — full access, no card needed today. Then Cook is $29/mo, Kitchen $49/mo for a busy operation, Restaurant $79/mo for the full spread. Cancel anytime.

Sunday plates, sold out by Friday.

14 days free. Live in an afternoon. Yours — the customers, the number, the money.

Start free trial — open my order page