Keep the money in the kitchen
Every dollar a small food business sends to a software company is a dollar it doesn't have for payroll, for product, or for the slow month.
Full Table exists to take that line item off the books. We build the software a small kitchen needs, charge for it once, charge what it costs to build it well and pay the people who build it fairly, and stop there.
That's the whole business. Everything below is what it means in practice.
The promises
You buy it. You own it.
One price, the same for everyone: $799, two seats, every feature, a year of updates. After that, an optional $199 a year for the new features. Skip it and the app keeps working, forever. No monthly rent, no per-seat fee, no setup fee, no price that climbs because your history is stuck with us.
Your data lives on your machine.
One file, in your Documents folder, backed up every day into a folder beside it. We never have your data, so we can never hold it, lose it, or sell it. Export everything, any time, as CSV and PDF.
We don't take a cut of your money.
Card processing costs what the processor charges. We add nothing on top, and we will never make using our processor a condition of using our software. The one thing we charge for as you go is the customer portal, because it's a service we host: 1% of the event, capped at $50, only when you choose to use it, and you can pass it through to the customer. What it costs us to run is in the open books.
Our books are open.
What a copy costs to build and support. What the company spends, and on what. What's left, and where it goes. We'll publish it, keep it current, and you can check the math. (Goes up once the first ten caterers are running real jobs on it — publishing the costs of a company with no revenue yet is theater.)
Small on purpose.
We hire when a milestone says so, not before. The people we hire get a real wage and real benefits. The ones who want to bet on the company can own part of it. We will not grow a payroll your price has to feed.
It survives us.
The license says so: if Full Table ever changes hands, the pay-once terms and the local file go with it, to whoever owns it next. Nobody can buy this company and start charging you rent. (The exact wording is being written with a lawyer; it's in the license before the first paid copy ships.)
Built by people who've done the job.
A caterer wrote the spec, from the jobs he runs every week. Nobody here has to imagine what a Friday looks like.
Why the price is the price
Running a restaurant has been hard for a long time and harder since 2020. Every subscription, every processing percentage, every distributor markup is a small hole in a boat that was already low in the water. Most software companies are built to grow those holes. This one is built to close one of them, and then the next.
Catering is first because it's what we know. The other lines a small kitchen rents month to month are next, sold the same way: once.
What we won't do
We won't sell your data, show you ads, or put a feature behind a "premium" tier.
We won't charge you a percentage of anything except the portal, and that one is capped and optional.
We won't raise the price on people who already bought it.
We won't take money that requires us to break any of the promises above.
Who
Travis Beesley. Twenty years in restaurants. Owned and ran a pizzeria in Creedmoor, North Carolina; runs catering for a restaurant in Chapel Hill now. Built Full Table because the alternative was paying rent on software forever.
