Toronto & the GTA
Catering companies are a field where the website is checked before the phone is picked up. We surveyed all 753 of them in the GTA and opened every site — here is the state of the field and what a replacement costs.
Review counts are not comparable between trades — 78 is the middle for caterers, which is a very different number from what a dentist or a barber would see. The upper quarter of this field is past 301 reviews and the busiest caterer we found holds 16,700.
What they are built on
Detected from the 615 catering companies websites we opened. 38 are on a free or entry-level builder, 0 on software discontinued years ago, and 59 still date themselves 1999 or earlier in the footer.
What actually breaks
Counted separately across all 615 sites in this field, so a site with four faults appears in four rows.
Built for this trade
One page cannot rank for everything a caterer does. Each service gets its own page, written for the words people actually type — which for this field is rarely the words the trade uses internally.
Reviews, photographs and the details that make someone pick you over the listing above yours. 23% of caterers with a website still have no mobile version — that alone is an opening.
Forms, booking, click-to-call. 266 sites in this field have no enquiry form at all.
Questions
No. We work with local businesses across the GTA and keep a separate page per trade because what a caterer needs from a website is genuinely different from what a retailer needs. We surveyed 753 catering companies to write this one.
116 of the 753 we checked have none attached to their Google listing, and 117 more link to a site that does not load. Of the 615 working sites, 143 have no mobile version.
The median across the GTA in this field is 78; the upper quarter is past 301 and the busiest single caterer we found holds 16,700. Those numbers mean nothing outside this trade — a count that is exceptional for a caterer is unremarkable for a restaurant.
Between $590 and $3,900 for the site depending on size, paid after it is built and you have seen it. Then $129 to $990 a month for hosting, edits, your Google listing and ongoing SEO. Cancel any month.
Two minutes
Everything above came from opening real websites. Yours takes ten seconds: we load it the way a customer would and say what we find, including when the honest answer is that nothing needs doing.
No pitch deck and no discovery call. Tell us the trade and the city, and we will say what we would do and what it costs.