Wedding catering quotes hinge on three numbers: guest count, service style, and bar package. SleekAI reads your menu pages and quotes a 110-guest plated dinner at $145 per head, a buffet at $115, and a family-style at $128, then layers a beer-and-wine bar at $32 per head or a full bar at $48. The bot is explicit about minimums (75 guests for plated, 100 for buffet) so couples below the threshold get a real answer before they book the tasting.

Dietary accommodations are where catering inboxes drown. Vegan entrée options, gluten-free pasta, kosher-style preparations, nut allergies, halal protein sourcing — every wedding has at least three. SleekAI reads your dietary page and answers per-restriction: "yes, we offer a vegan entrée at the same per-head price" or "halal protein adds $8 per head and requires 30 days lead time." That conversation happens once on your site, not twelve times in email threads.

The bar conversation gets the same treatment. Beer and wine versus full bar versus signature-cocktail-and-bar, with corkage if the couple supplies wine, with bartender ratios per guest count, with minimum bar spends in venues that require them. Publish the policy once on a bar packages page; the bot quotes from it for every inquiry.

Wedding catering inquiries are the most quantitatively detailed inquiries in the wedding industry. Couples ask for a per-head number, a service-style comparison, a dietary scope, and a bar quote in the same paragraph. Answering all four requires reading at least three pages on the site, doing some basic arithmetic, and being honest about minimums.

Generic chatbots can't do any of this; the best they can offer is "contact us for a quote." SleekAI reads the menu pages and produces a real number. A 110-guest plated dinner at $145 per head is $15,950; the couple sees it; the bot quotes it; the proposal matches. That single capability changes the inquiry-to-tasting conversion meaningfully because couples shop catering on price first and don't book tastings with caterers who won't give them a number.

Dietary accommodations are the second axis where bots earn their place. Couples planning weddings increasingly have diverse dietary needs in their guest lists, and the question "can you do a vegan main and a gluten-free main" gets asked in every inquiry. Publish the dietary policy once on a real page and the bot quotes from it consistently.

Vegan no upcharge, gluten-free no upcharge, halal protein adds $8 with 30-day lead time, nut-free kitchen accommodation included. Each answer is a verifiable line on the policy page, not an improvised promise. Bar packages are the third axis, and they're the part of the catering proposal that surprises couples the most.

The food number is one thing; the bar can add another twenty to thirty percent depending on guest count and service hours. The bot quotes both at the same time so the couple sees the real total at the inquiry stage, not at the proposal stage. That changes the dynamic of the proposal call: the couple is choosing between packages, not absorbing a surprise.