Software built for
mobile caterers
Eventifood is UK mobile catering software built specifically for food vans, street food traders, festival caterers and market stalls. QR ordering, live kitchen board, cashless payments and sales analytics — in one platform, with no monthly fee.
No credit card. No setup fee. Free to start. 2% per transaction when you trade.
Built for every kind of mobile catering
Whether you trade daily or just at weekends, at markets or festivals, Eventifood fits around how you work.
Food vans & trucks
Street food vans parked at markets, roadsides and lunchtime spots. Your QR code on the side of the van is your ordering system — customers scan from the queue.
Festival catering
High-volume service at music festivals, food festivals, county fairs and outdoor events. Handle the rush without hiring more staff — queue management software built in.
Market stalls
Indoor and outdoor markets where customers want to browse and pay without waiting. Your stall gets its own QR ordering store — same system, same kitchen board.
Corporate catering
Regular lunchtime pitches at offices and business parks. Pre-orders, event menus, and a branded store link your client can share with their staff in advance.
Private events
Weddings, parties, sporting events. Create a bespoke event menu with custom items and pricing — separate from your everyday trading menu.
Pop-up kitchens
One-off or occasional trading spots — a ghost kitchen weekend, a pop-up collaboration, a charity event. Set up your store once and reuse it every time.
What's free vs what the 2% covers
Most software hides what's included behind a tiered pricing page. Here's a straight answer.
Everything below is included. No feature tiers. No add-ons.
Free to set up. The 2% per transaction is the only cost when you trade.
Always free (£0/month)
- ✓ Your branded ordering store (yourname.eventifood.com)
- ✓ Unlimited menu categories and items
- ✓ QR code to print and display
- ✓ Live kitchen display board
- ✓ Customer order notifications
- ✓ Stock management
- ✓ Printable QR menus (A4/A3/A2)
- ✓ Event and festival menus
- ✓ Full sales analytics and P&L
- ✓ Discount codes
- ✓ Works on any device — tablet, Pi, laptop
What the 2% covers
- → Platform hosting and infrastructure
- → Customer notification emails
- → Ongoing product development
- → Support when you need it
- → Payment integration maintenance
In numbers
On a £1,000 trading day, the platform fee is £20.
On a quiet week with no orders, the platform fee is £0.
On a winter month parked up, the platform fee is £0.
What you get with Eventifood
QR code ordering
Customers scan a code, browse your menu and pay on their phone. No app download, no friction, no queue at the hatch.
Live kitchen display board
Every paid order appears on your kitchen screen instantly. One tap to mark it preparing, one to mark it ready.
Event & festival menus
Create a custom menu for any event with separate pricing, items and branding. Switch it live in minutes.
Sales analytics
Revenue, top sellers, profit per item, busiest hours. The data you need to run a tighter, more profitable operation.
Stock management
Set stock levels per item. Sold-out items disappear from the customer menu automatically. No apologising at the hatch.
Print menus with QR codes
Generate professional A4/A3/A2 menus with a QR code on every item. Display at your pitch or hand out at the gate.
Cashless payments
Card and PayPal live now. Apple Pay & Google Pay coming soon via Stripe. No cash float, no counting, no contamination risk.
No charge in the off-season
PAYG pricing means you pay 2% per transaction and nothing else. Park up for the winter and your bill is £0.
Why mobile catering software is different from restaurant software
Most hospitality software is built for a fixed location with a reliable broadband connection, a dedicated kitchen with a separate front-of-house, and a customer who is seated and expecting to wait 20 minutes. None of that describes a food van at a market or festival.
Mobile catering software needs to handle fundamentally different constraints. Your connection might be 4G on a field. Your “till” might be a tablet bungee-corded to the serving counter. Your customers have been standing in a queue and just want their food. And you might not trade again for two weeks.
Eventifood is built around the real experience of running a UK food van: the QR code goes on the side of the vehicle, the menu loads on the customer's phone before they reach you, the order appears on your screen the moment it's paid, and the customer is notified the instant it's ready. The hatch becomes a collection point rather than an order-taking bottleneck.
The business model is also different. Restaurant software charges you whether you're open or closed. Festival season runs April to October; Christmas markets add November and December. If you're not trading in January and February, a fixed monthly subscription is money wasted. Eventifood charges 2% per transaction — so your software cost tracks your revenue, not the calendar.
A real example:
A food van trading 40 weekends a year at £800 average would pay £640 in Eventifood fees across the year. On a comparable subscription product at £79/month, they'd pay £948 — for 12 months, including the months they didn't trade. That's £308 of pure difference in favour of PAYG.
Most mobile catering software charges you 12 months a year. Eventifood doesn't.
Mobile caterers trade seasonally — festivals in summer, Christmas markets in winter, quiet months in between. Eventifood's PAYG pricing means your bill reflects your trading. When you're not earning, you're not paying.
Start free — 2% per order when you trade →Mobile catering software — questions answered
What is mobile catering software and do I need it?
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It handles the digital operations of your food van or mobile catering unit — ordering, payments, kitchen management, customer notifications, and analytics. If you're still shouting orders across a van and counting cash at the end of the night, software like Eventifood will save you time, reduce mistakes, and let you serve more customers per hour.
How much does mobile catering software cost in the UK?
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Eventifood is free to start. You pay 2% per transaction when orders come through. Most other UK mobile catering software costs £50–150/month, charged whether or not you trade. If you have 3 quiet months a year, that's £150–450 you'd pay Eventifood nothing for.
Does it work at outdoor events with no WiFi?
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Yes. The platform runs on 4G with no on-site WiFi required. We've seen it running reliably in a field at a festival with 10,000 attendees. The menu, payments, and kitchen board all work on a standard mobile data connection.
Can I create separate menus for different catering events?
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Yes. You can create a dedicated event menu for any booking — different prices, different items, different branding. Switch it live before the event starts, switch back to your standard menu when it's done. You can run a wedding menu one weekend and a festival menu the next without any overlap.
Does the software handle catering for large numbers?
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It handles volume well. The kitchen board shows every order the moment it's paid. There's no theoretical limit to the number of concurrent orders — the platform has handled 300+ orders in a single event hour for food trucks at busy festivals. The constraint is how fast you can cook, not how fast the software can process.
What analytics does it provide for food van management?
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Top-selling items by quantity and revenue, sales by hour (so you can see exactly when your rush hits), daily revenue totals, gross and net profit per item when cost prices are entered, and wastage over time. Most traders find within a few weeks that the data tells them something actionable — usually which item to stop making.
Can I use it on a Raspberry Pi or cheap tablet?
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Yes. We test on a £49 Amazon Fire, a Raspberry Pi 4 with touchscreen, and a battered Android phone as backup. If it has a browser, it works. The kitchen board is specifically designed to work on small screens — you don't need a large monitor.
Is there a free trial or demo?
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There's no trial period — you can sign up for free and use the full platform. Because there's no monthly fee on PAYG, there's nothing to trial. Just register, build your menu, and your store is live. You can also book a 20-minute live demo via our contact page.