Havenue vs Spoonfed | Catering & banqueting software

Havenue vs Spoonfed compared. Spoonfed takes the catering order and gets it delivered. See how Havenue costs the recipes behind that order, manages every guest dietary from them, and writes the supplier order for the week.

What Havenue is

Havenue is the AI-native dietary and catering management software for hospitality: catering companies, hotels, venues, restaurants and private dining.

It automates the back-of-house behind event catering, from the enquiry to the kitchen pass to the invoice. The Dietary & Catering Engine checks every dish against every guest's requirements and finds safe replacement dishes from the operator's own recipes, for chef sign-off. Around it sit an advanced, automated event CRM with a live pipeline, a smart inventory and stock system with every allergen tagged from the ingredients themselves, recipe and menu costing with live cost per head and GP%, ordering and supplier management, invoicing, billing and client payments, generated BEOs and allergen matrices, reporting, and the full platform in a mobile browser. One integrated platform, one event record.

Spoonfed runs delivered catering ordering well: the client portal, the order, the production list, the delivery and the invoice. Havenue runs the kitchen and the money behind that order, which is the half Spoonfed leaves to your team: costed recipes, every guest allergy checked against those recipes, and next week's supplier order written for you.

You pay for two systems. Havenue does both jobs.

Your catering system books the event and sends the invoice. Your kitchen system holds the recipes, the allergens and the suppliers. Neither one talks to the other, so somebody retypes every event into both, and the spreadsheet in the middle is where the mistakes happen.

Havenue does both jobs from one event record. The Dietary & Catering Engine reads your recipes, tags every allergen, gives each guest a dish they can safely eat, and writes next week's supplier order from the catering events you have already booked.

Where Havenue wins

Every catering event needs the same four things: the food costed, the allergens and dietaries managed, the pack written, the order sent to your suppliers. Havenue runs all four automatically from one booked event, so your chefs and your events team get those hours back every week.

Where Spoonfed is strong

Spoonfed is a UK company built for delivered and contract catering at scale. A client ordering portal with multi-style ordering and checkout, menu management a catering manager controls by lead time, location and availability, production lists, delivery planning, CRM, billing and a multi-account Console. Spoonfed names Compass Group, Sodexo and BaxterStorey among its clients.

Side by side

Where the two products actually differ. These are capable tools; this table is about which parts of the job each one does for you.

Comparison reflects each platform's public positioning and core focus as of 2026. Competitor capabilities vary by plan and version and continue to evolve; check each vendor for the latest. Brand names are the property of their respective owners.

You do not have to rebuild anything to try this

The whole platform. Every feature. Free for 7 days.

The reason most teams stay on a system they have outgrown is the season, not the software. So we do the setup.

Send us the recipes and menus you already have. We load them into Havenue with your inventory, so your team is running automated events within one working day.

Unlimited seats. No setup fee. No contract.

Run your catering events through Havenue for a week. If your admin has not visibly dropped by day 7, tell us and we will extend your trial free. You do not pay to find out whether it works.

FAQ

What does Havenue do that Spoonfed does not?

The kitchen and the money. Havenue reads your recipes and tags every allergen from the ingredients themselves, then checks each guest at a catering event and offers a dish that guest can eat for your chef to approve. It shows the cost per head and the GP% while the menu is still being built. It counts your stock down as catering events run, writes next week's purchase order from the events you have already booked, and reads the supplier bill when it arrives. Spoonfed advertises no recipe costing, no GP%, no stock and nothing on the buying side.

We already show allergens on every order. Is that not the same thing?

It is a different job, and Spoonfed's own integrations list is the clearest way to see it: their allergen and nutrition information comes from Kafoodle. Showing a client what is in a dish is one thing. Reading your recipe, tagging every allergen from the ingredient data, checking it against the eleven guests at Saturday's dinner and putting a named replacement dish in front of the three who cannot eat the main is another. Havenue does the second, from your own recipes, for your chef to sign off.

How does client ordering work if we move to Havenue?

Today your team takes the order, in Havenue or wherever the enquiry lands, and Havenue runs everything after it: the costed menu, every guest dietary, the BEO, the stock and the supplier order. Spoonfed's self-serve portal and delivery planning are the part Havenue does not cover yet. Customer self-serve ordering is on the Havenue roadmap and we will not put a date on it here. If drop-off ordering is the reason you bought Spoonfed, the honest answer today is to keep Spoonfed for the front and run Havenue behind it.

How long does moving take?

One working day, and we do it. Export your menus, recipes and customer list from Spoonfed in whatever format it gives you, send them over, and we load them with your inventory. Your team runs a real catering event on Havenue the next day.

Can I trust AI with a nut allergy?

You are not being asked to. Havenue reads your recipes and tags the allergens on every ingredient and every dish, then checks each guest against them and suggests a replacement dish from recipes you have already approved. Your chef reviews that on one screen and signs it off, and the sign-off is recorded against the event. The work that used to be done from memory at 11pm is done in front of you, in daylight, by someone qualified to judge it.

What happens to my data in the system I am leaving?

It comes with you. Export your recipes, menus, ingredients, suppliers and price lists from your current system, in whatever format it gives you, and we import that export as it is, along with anything else you keep in spreadsheets. We load the lot inside the free trial. You keep your existing account running the whole time, so nothing is switched off until you have decided.

We already run on another system. Is it worth switching?

Usually yes, and you do not have to switch to find out. Most teams who move were not unhappy with their old system, they were unhappy with what it could not do: check every dish against a guest's allergies, write next week's purchase order, show the margin before the quote goes out. Bring one real event into the free trial and run it alongside whatever you use today.

How long until my team is actually running on it?

One working day, and we do the work. Send us the recipes and menus you already have, in whatever shape they are in, and we load them with your inventory. Your team runs its first event on it the next day. No IT project and no training course.

My chefs are not office people. Will they actually use it?

That is the test that matters, and it is why Havenue runs on a phone as well as a laptop. A chef photographs a supplier bill at the back door and it costs itself. Nobody has to sit at a desk to keep the numbers true.

Does it handle ordering, suppliers and money as well as events?

Yes, and doing it in one system is the point. Havenue writes next week's purchase orders from your booked events, reads the supplier bills that come back and books the delivery in, and raises the quote and the invoice off the same event record. A supplier price rise updates every recipe and every event margin with it.

What if it does not work for us?

Free for 7 days, no charge until day 8, and you cancel in one click. No setup fee and no contract.

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