The takeover
Two years ago we bought a catering business and took it exactly as it was: full order books, loyal customers — and binders. Binders everywhere. The previous owner did everything by hand: every quote, every invoice, every shift plan.
Our story
We didn’t digitize a business. We rescued our own.
Kolsche wasn’t born in an office. It was born between the walk-in fridge and the kitchen line. This is our story — and chances are it sounds a lot like yours.
The night it tipped
Every quote meant digging up an old Word file, hunting for prices, rescaling items, checking everything three times. Two, three hours — per inquiry. At 11 pm we were still at the laptop instead of in the kitchen. At some point it was clear: we hadn’t bought a business, we’d bought a second job.
The turn
So we built what simply didn’t exist for caterers: a tool that turns a price list and a guest count into a clean quote in minutes. First just for us. Then other caterers started asking what we were using. Today it’s called Kolsche.
We didn’t build Kolsche to sell software. We built it to get our evenings back.
That’s what “from caterers, for caterers” means: we know what you actually need — because we use it ourselves every single day. And we know what software is allowed to cost when your margins look like catering margins.