Respond to catering leads in under 5 minutes and book 20% more events by beating competitors to the reply.
~3 hrs
Saved / wk
Advanced
Setup
AI-Assisted
AI
When someone submits a catering inquiry through a Cognito Forms (an online form builder) form on your website, Make pulls your available dates and pricing from Toast and sends an automatic reply with a quote. You respond to leads in minutes instead of days. Faster replies mean more booked events.
~3 hrs
Saved / Week
Professional setup recommended
Setup Complexity
AI Status
Step 1: Build a catering inquiry form in Cognito Forms with fields for event date, guest count, and menu preferences
Step 2: Connect Cognito Forms to Make so a new submission triggers the workflow
Step 3: Use Make to pull your current catering menu and pricing from Toast
Step 4: Use ChatGPT to draft a personalized quote email based on the inquiry details and Toast pricing
Step 5: Send the email automatically from your business email address via Make
Step 6: Log the inquiry in Notion for follow-up tracking
Upgrade to Plus for AI-powered step-by-step guides
See PlansConnector
Cognito Forms is an online form builder that lets you create anything from simple contact forms to complex multi-page workflows with conditional logic, calculations, and payment collection — all without writing code. You drag and drop fields, set up rules for which sections appear based on answers, and embed the form on your website. The platform handles payment processing through Stripe, Square, or PayPal right inside your forms. Repeating sections let respondents add multiple items dynamically. Free tier includes unlimited forms with 500 entries/month. Paid plans start at $15/month.
Toast is built for restaurant and food-service owners who need a complete system to take orders, accept payments, and run their business from one place. Whether you run a food truck, a fast-casual spot, or a multi-location restaurant, Toast handles your point of sale, online ordering, payroll, and more. You get cloud-based software, restaurant-grade hardware, and 24/7 support all in one package. It's used by over 164,000 locations across the US, making it one of the most widely adopted restaurant platforms available.
Visual workflow automation connecting 3,000+ business apps. Build multi-step automations with branching logic, data transformation, and error handling — all by dragging and dropping on a visual canvas. Formerly Integromat. Free: 1,000 credits/month. Core: $9/month. Pro: $16/month. SOC 2 and GDPR compliant.
ChatGPT is an AI-powered assistant built by OpenAI that helps you write content, answer questions, analyze data, generate images, and automate everyday tasks through a conversational interface. It works on web, desktop, and mobile, and connects with 60+ business apps on its Team and Business plans. The free plan handles basic writing and research. The $20/month Plus plan unlocks image generation (DALL-E), video creation (Sora), deeper reasoning, file analysis, and Deep Research mode for multi-source reports. Over 300 million people use ChatGPT weekly. Custom GPTs let you build mini AI apps tailored to your specific workflows.
Notion is an all-in-one workspace where your team can write notes, track projects, build databases, and share knowledge — all in one place. Instead of juggling separate apps for documents, project boards, and wikis, Notion puts everything under one roof. Over 100 million people use it, from solo freelancers to large companies. The free plan is generous. You get unlimited pages, a calendar, email, basic forms, and databases at no cost. When your team grows, the Plus plan starts at $10 per member per month and adds collaboration features. Notion also includes built-in AI that can search across your workspace, write drafts, summarize long documents, and fill in database fields automatically — saving you hours of manual work each week. Where Notion really shines is flexibility. You can mold it into almost anything: a CRM, a content calendar, a hiring tracker, or an internal wiki. It connects with about 197 other apps, including two-way syncing with tools like Jira, GitHub, and Asana. If your business needs one hub to organize everything, Notion is a strong contender.