Profit That Sticks: The Catering P&L + Hidden Margin Leaks

This is the money session: How to grow catering revenue and keep it. We’ll break down a catering-specific P&L and expose the margin killers that quietly erase profit: pricing architecture, minimums, delivery/setup fees, labor assumptions, packaging costs, discounts, refunds/remakes, last-minute changes, and marketplace fee math. You’ll leave with a practical checklist and a set of guardrails you can implement immediately to protect contribution margin while scaling volume.