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Prep Station
What Prep Station is
Prep Station is operations software for caterers and foodservice teams, linking storefronts, quotes, events, costing, kitchen production, and delivery on one record. Yield-aware recipe costing combines vendor prices and prep recipes to calculate portion and plate costs. Sales orders retain guest counts, menus, modifiers, and live plate cost, so quotes show margin before sending. Published menus stay synchronized with prices, modifiers, dietary tags, and availability. Delivery Hub supports internal drivers and DoorDash Drive as a per-stop backup, while Stripe Connect lets customers collect payment through the operator’s Stripe account. Inventory supports barcode and camera scanning for counts, purchasing, waste, and receiving, including offline modes. USDA-backed nutrition labels, allergy flags, and FDA-style exports are included. An AI sous chef works with recipes, orders, and meal plans for costing, scaling, quote changes, and shopping gaps. The web app offers API access and external system sync on Operations. There is no free plan, but a free trial is available. Plans start at $79 a month, billed monthly.
Who it suits
Prep Station is aimed at full-service and drop-off caterers, chefs, commissaries, restaurants, institutional kitchens, senior centers, and churches. It suits teams managing sales, recipes, production, delivery, and inventory.
What it does well
- Yield-aware recipe and plate costing
- Branded storefront and self-serve quotes
- Delivery Hub with DoorDash Drive backup
- Barcode and camera inventory scanning
- USDA-backed nutrition labels
What to know first
- No free plan
- Plans start at 79.00 USD monthly
- Storefront orders allow 10 service slots
- Additional kitchens cost 49.00 USD monthly
Plans
| Plan | Billed and limits | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Operations | monthly · Catering features · CRM/opportunities · inventory · purchase orders · invoice OCR/matching · commissary transfers · attendance/time clock · tasks/checklists · API access · external system sync · first kitchen included · +$49/mo per additional kitchen | $249 a month |
| Operations | annual billing · Catering features · CRM/opportunities · inventory · purchase orders · invoice OCR/matching · commissary transfers · attendance/time clock · tasks/checklists · API access · external system sync · first kitchen included · +$49/mo per additional kitchen | $2,490 a year |
| Kitchen | monthly · recipes · recipe player · recipe books/public sharing · ingredients/allergens · nutrition and menus · meal/production planning · team discussion · reports | $79 a month |
| Kitchen | annual billing · recipes · recipe player · recipe books/public sharing · ingredients/allergens · nutrition and menus · meal/production planning · team discussion · reports | $790 a year |
| Catering | monthly · Kitchen features · online storefront · sales orders · group orders · Delivery Hub · delivery fees · promotions · customer payments · data imports · AI chat assistant | $99 a month |
| Catering | annual billing · Kitchen features · online storefront · sales orders · group orders · Delivery Hub · delivery fees · promotions · customer payments · data imports · AI chat assistant | $990 a year |
As prepstation.io lists them, read 1 Oct 2026. The maker's own page has the final word.
Verdict
Prep Station brings catering sales, kitchen operations, delivery, payments, and inventory into one workflow. Its paid plans and storefront limit should be checked against the team’s operating model.
Facts from Prep Station's own pages
- AI assistant
- The AI sous chef can work in context on recipes, sales orders, and meal plans for costing, scaling, quote changes, and shopping gaps. · app.prepstation.io, 1 Oct 2026
- API and sync
- The Operations plan lists API Access and External System Sync. · prepstation.io, 1 Oct 2026
- Audience
- The product is for full-service and drop-off caterers, chefs, commissaries, multi-unit restaurants, institutional kitchens, senior centers, and churches. · prepstation.io, 1 Oct 2026
- Core workflow
- A branded storefront, self-serve quotes, multi-day events, costing, kitchen production, and delivery run on one record. · prepstation.io, 1 Oct 2026
- Delivery
- Delivery Hub supports internal drivers and DoorDash Drive as per-stop backup. · prepstation.io, 1 Oct 2026
- Inventory
- Inventory supports barcode and camera scanning for counts, purchasing, waste, and receiving, including offline modes. · app.prepstation.io, 1 Oct 2026
- Nutrition and allergens
- The product provides USDA-backed nutrition labels and allergy flags, including FDA-style label exports. · app.prepstation.io, 1 Oct 2026
- Payments integration
- Prep Station connects to Stripe Connect so customers pay through the operator's Stripe account. · prepstation.io, 1 Oct 2026
- Product
- Prep Station is operations software for caterers and foodservice teams. · prepstation.io, 1 Oct 2026
- Recipe costing
- Yield-aware recipe costing rolls vendor prices and prep recipes into cost per portion and plate cost. · prepstation.io, 1 Oct 2026
- Sales orders
- Sales orders carry guest counts, menus, modifiers, and live plate cost so quotes show margin before sending. · app.prepstation.io, 1 Oct 2026
- Security privacy
- Prep Station says it never sells data and logs full IP addresses for security and fraud prevention while an account is active. · prepstation.io, 1 Oct 2026
- Storefront
- Published menus stay synchronized with Prep Station prices, modifiers, dietary tags, and availability. · prepstation.io, 1 Oct 2026
- Storefront limit
- A storefront order can contain up to 10 service slots. · prepstation.io, 1 Oct 2026
- Support
- Prep Station lists [email protected] and (424) 234-6129. · prepstation.io, 1 Oct 2026
- Web app
- The live app runs at app.prepstation.io. · prepstation.io, 1 Oct 2026
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