Every other platform in this category will show you a demo with fake data. We'll show you a live catering company taking real orders, batching real routes, and paying real drivers — because we own it, and MISE is the system that runs it.
Meal prep software is built by software companies who've never plated 200 covers, never had a driver call out at 6am, never eaten the cost of a bad route. It shows — in the workflows that almost fit, and the reports that don't answer the question you actually have.
"This isn't a demo. This is my catering company, right now."
On every call we open the real dashboard: today's orders, today's production sheet, today's optimized routes, today's driver pay. You are not evaluating a promise — you're watching a business run on the thing you're buying. A vendor who doesn't operate a kitchen can never make that offer.
Every workflow exists because a real service failed without it. Nothing here is a feature-parity checkbox.
Live payment rail, live subscriptions, live recurring billing — processing actual revenue, not sandbox transactions.
We earn when you sell. No seat count, no annual contract, no procurement cycle.
Most operators duct-tape a storefront, a subscription tool, a routing app, and a spreadsheet. This is one system where the order, the kitchen, the van, and the books already know about each other.
| Platform | Monthly | Transaction cut | Operator-run | Live-ops proof |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sprwt (category leader) | $250 → $950/mo | 1.5% + up to $1.75/order | No | No |
| CaterZen | $179 → $229/mo | — | No | No |
| Total Party Planner | $119 → $429/mo +$25/user, +$299 setup | — | No | No |
| Typical DIY stack | $300 → $600/mo | varies | No | No |
| MISE | $0 | Share of orders processed | Yes | Yes |
Competitor pricing verified against each vendor's live pricing page 2026-08-16 (Sprwt monthly billing — a Bloom tier at $500/mo sits between Sprout and Orchard; CaterZen; Total Party Planner; DIY stack range per BlueCart's 2026 meal-prep software guide). Figures are the vendors' published list prices and may change.
$0 down. $0 per month. No contract. We take 2.5% of the food revenue that actually runs through the system — and it's capped at $1,500 a month, so growing can never turn into a bigger bill than you bargained for. If it doesn't move volume, it costs you nothing. That's only a sane offer to make if you've already proven the thing works. We have. Daily.
2.5% of food subtotal — before tax, tips and delivery fees, after refunds. You're charged on food you sold and kept the money for.
$1,500 a month, hard. Whatever you grow into, the bill stops there.
Stays yours. Your own Square account, your own rates. Payments never pass through us — we invoice you monthly, after the fact, itemized.
While you're a customer, we won't onboard another operator inside your delivery radius. You're not arming your competition.
$250–$950 every month plus 1.5% per transaction plus up to $1.75 an order — whether it sells or not.
2.5%, capped, and nothing at all until orders flow. On a kitchen doing $77k a month on Sprwt's Orchard plan, that's already $1,500 against their $2,105 — base plus 1.5%, before a single per-order fee is added on top.
Full terms — onboarding, exit, data ownership, and the founding-operator rate lock — are on one page: read the operator terms.
Thirty minutes, live screen, real orders. If the operation on the screen doesn't look better than yours, there's nothing to talk about.
📅 Book the 30-min live-ops walkthroughStraight to Dayan's calendar. Bring your current order volume and your biggest operational headache.