Email, phone and spreadsheets
Costs nothing and every customer knows how to use it. It works until orders get busy: then orders and PO numbers get missed, invoices are built one by one, and month end means days of tallying.
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Looking for an alternative to a catering marketplace or ordering platform?
If you cater for offices, councils and public bodies in Ireland, there are four main ways to take orders. Here's an honest comparison, including where Breakout isn't the right fit.
At a glance
| Email, phone and spreadsheets | Office-lunch marketplace | Breakout | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Customers order on your own branded page | |||
| The customer relationship stays yours | Orders come through the marketplace | ||
| Purchase Orders tracked from order to payment | By hand | Depends on the platform | |
| Card payments into your own account | By phone | Through the platform | SumUp or Square |
| Commission on each order | None | Check each platform's terms | None, flat monthly fee |
| Daily prep list, invoices and monthly reports | By hand | Varies | |
| Brings you new customers |
The options in detail
Breakout or Feedr?
Feedr is an office-catering marketplace that operates in Dublin. According to its website, customers order from its selection of vendors and its couriers collect and deliver the food. That can bring you new office customers. Breakout is for the customers you already have: they order from your own page, in your name, and pay you directly.
Breakout or Spoonfed?
Spoonfed is catering management software from a UK company, built for a wide range of B2B caterers, from institutional and contract caterers to venues. Its website lists group ordering, account billing, purchase order and cost centre features. Breakout is narrower on purpose: built in Ireland for small and mid-sized caterers who supply offices and councils, and set up in about a day.
Breakout
Your own order page with Purchase Orders and card payments built in, order alerts, a daily prep list, PO tracking, invoices and monthly reports, for one flat monthly fee with no commission.
Details about other services come from their own websites, checked November 2026. Features and prices change, so check with each provider before deciding. Feedr and Spoonfed are trademarks of their owners, and Breakout isn't connected with either.
Switching questions
Is Breakout a catering marketplace?
No. Breakout gives you your own order page in your name. Your customers order from you, pay you directly and stay your customers. Breakout doesn't list other caterers or bring you new customers; you share your link with the offices you already serve.
Can I use Breakout alongside a marketplace?
Yes. Many caterers use a marketplace to win new office customers and want their regular accounts, councils and PO customers ordering from them directly. Breakout is for those direct customers.
Do I have to change payment provider?
No, if you already use SumUp or Square: card payments go into that account. Purchase Order customers keep paying you by bank transfer as they do now.
How do I move my regular customers over?
Send them your Breakout link, or put a QR code up in their offices. They don't need an account; they just order on your page.
What does Breakout cost?
One flat monthly fee with no commission on orders. Book a demo and we'll talk you through the price for your business.
See it working with your own menu
A short call, no commitment. Set up in about a day.