A page of its own for the catering menu
Our special catering menu needed a different home from the weekly pickup menu. I asked AI to publish it with the supplied prices, units and ordering conditions intact.
On 31 October, I gave the agent a special catering menu to publish. I used publish-menu, our usual menu workflow, but added a specific instruction: this was catering by pre-order, and it did not need the three screen layouts. The weekly pickup menu already had its own place on the website. This menu needed room for a different kind of request.
The source material was three menu posters. Together they listed 23 items, with availability advertised from 15 November and at least a week’s notice for orders. Those were future arrangements when we published the page. The work that day was to make the supplied menu available online; it did not establish that a catering order had been accepted or delivered.
The agent saved the original posters and organised their contents into a separate catering page. It retained the distinction between a price per tray, a price for 20 pieces, and a price per piece with a minimum order of 20. A number on its own would have left out part of what the customer was buying. Where the source did not specify a main dish’s minimum quantity or the number of pieces in a tray, the page did not invent one.
The page kept a source link to the original Facebook menu post, so someone could return to the supplied material to check it. The catering section explained the advance notice and directed enquiries to the kitchen through Facebook Messenger. Choosing dishes or sending an enquiry still needed the kitchen’s confirmation. We had not added an automatic checkout or promised that every requested date would be available.
Before the release was finished, the agent checked the published menu and its data against the approved files. The existing weekly menu stayed in place. That mattered here because a separate catering offer should not silently replace the dated pickup choices that someone else came to find. The instruction to skip the three screens also remained part of this job’s scope.
By the end of that website release, the catering menu had a page of its own, linked from both the English and Chinese homepages. I could point to a specific place for the special offer, with its prices, conditions and source link together. Whether people would enquire, and which orders the kitchen could take, remained the next part of the work.
