Catering is one of the highest-margin food businesses but lives or dies on inbound inquiries. The shops booking 3 gigs a week have a site that ranks for 'corporate catering [town]' or 'BBQ caterer [town]' and a form that lands on the owner's phone. Forge built exactly this for Chef Ralph (chefralphtorrell.com) and ships the same stack in a week.
We already run a successful catering site (Chef Ralph's Realm — read the case study). The pattern: per-gig-type landing pages (corporate is different from wedding is different from BBQ), a real photo gallery, and a form that asks about headcount + date + dietary up front so the inquiry comes in qualified. Voice AI agent on the phone line takes gig requests after hours.
A live Long Island catering website Forge builds and ships nightly — YouTube sync, catering-inquiry capture, and a retail shop under one domain. Read exactly what we built and how it ranks.
Read the Chef Ralph's Realm case study →Depends on the gig type. Corporate + drop-off do better with transparent per-head pricing on the page. Wedding + private-chef inquiries do better with 'starting at X, request a quote' — too many variables for fixed pricing to convert. We A/B both and let the data decide.
Yes — that's actually the case study we'd point you to. If you sell sauces, run a cooking channel, or have a brick-and-mortar shop, the site syncs all three under one domain (which Google rewards with cross-page authority).
A separate phantom website we own — say li-corporate-catering.co — that ranks for "corporate catering long island near me" in your service area. When someone calls the number on that site, the call rings at your shop. Exclusive — not shared with five competitors like HomeAdvisor.
Yes — your own site, your own phone, your own GA4 + Search Console properties. The phantom phone line is ours (we built it to rank), but the website and brand are yours, free and clear.
LSA is pay-per-lead and your competitors bid against you on the same query. Phantom phone lines are exclusive — only your shop's calls ring through. And you own a real website that compounds over years; LSA stops the second you stop paying.
$3,000 one-time to build your site, then $300/mo for the AI-shipped SEO + the phantom phone line. Or pay-per-qualified-call at $29/each on the phantom line. Most shops break even on month 1–2.
Tell us your business in 60 seconds. The phantom phone line starts ranking inside 8.