Sell restaurants done-for-you AI follow-up that books catering orders: $3.2K MRR
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- Niche hard: restaurants that already do catering, selling against marketplace commissions (sourced)
- Capture every inquiry: quote forms, missed-call text-back, pipeline and booking calendar (sourced)
- AI drafts replies and follow-ups; the team reviews and sends them, typically within 24 hours on business days (sourced)
- Tier up: $97 DIY CRM, $747 AI outreach with 20+ qualified leads/mo, $2,997 full-service with ads (sourced)
- MVP: missed-call text-back + AI-drafted quote follow-up for 3 local caterers (suggested)
- Hands-off score
- 10/100
- Operator
- Sell as a service
- Cost to start
- $88 est.
- Time to first $
- 4 weeks est.
Who does what
- The agent
- not stated
- Still needs a human
- The site says AI-drafted replies are 'reviewed and sent by our team', and the Full-Service AI assistants run 'with human review'; Setup and ads management are done by the team
- Marketing and sales
- Usually you (not covered by the autonomy rating)
From our autonomy note for this business (sourced). How we score hands-off
How we estimated the cost
est. startup = domain $10.46/yr (Cloudflare Registrar, ledger.csv) + n8n Cloud Starter €24/mo ≈ $28 (assumed automation layer; stack not stated) + Google Workspace Business Starter $8.40/mo (outreach mailbox) + OpenAI API test credit ~$20 (GPT-5 mini $0.25 in/$2 out per 1M tok) + Twilio local number $1.15/mo + Twilio A2P 10DLC brand+campaign registration ~$20 (est., missed-call text-back) = $88 (first month of each subscription included; Stripe fees excluded). est. time to first dollar 28 days: done-for-you service: ~1 wk demo build + ~2 wks outreach to restaurants; +7d A2P 10DLC SMS approval. est. monthly run-rate ~$50/mo before per-client SMS and API usage.
Catering Funnels is a done-for-you lead generation and automation service for restaurants with active catering operations. It captures every inquiry, sends missed-call text-backs, runs automated follow-up and booking, and on higher plans adds an AI booking agent, LinkedIn and cold-email outreach to corporate buyers, and AI assistants for reception, sales and menu questions with human review. Setup takes two days and there is no long-term contract.
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- Revenue claim
- $4,144 last 30 days; MRR $3,182; all-time $28,367; 6 active subscriptions (as of Oct 23, 2026)
TrustMRR: revenue verified via Stripe API key, last updated Oct 23, 2026 (re-checked live at merge, synced 16:05 UTC)
Receipt: trustmrr.com, cateringfunnels.com
Risks: Only 6 active subscriptions, so losing one large client moves MRR sharply (derived from TrustMRR). Delivery and Full-Service plans carry a 3-month earn-back guarantee, a refund risk if leads don't convert (sourced, site). AI replies need human review before sending, so delivery hours grow with each client (sourced, site). Last-30-day MRR growth +30.7% and revenue growth +76.4% (TrustMRR), so part of the current figure is recent.
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