Presentation Styles: Define How Your Catering Is Served or Packaged

Presentation styles let you define how your catering is physically served or packaged — shared platters, individual bags, pottles, paper bags — with optional surcharges that flow through to quotes, dockets, and your online store.

A Global Setting, Not an Item Setting

Unlike item options (which are configured on each individual item), presentation styles are defined once in your account settings and are available across your entire menu. You set them up in Settings → Presentation Styles and they can then be applied to any item or package.

This makes presentation styles ideal for anything that applies consistently across your business — the way you package individual orders, the style of service for shared catering, or a premium presentation tier with a surcharge.

Setting Up Your Styles

In your Puree settings, navigate to Presentation Styles and create as many styles as your business uses. Each style has a name and an optional surcharge. For example:

• Shared Platter — no surcharge
• Individual Serving — +$0.20 per item surcharge
• Individual Pottles — surcharge for individual packaging
• Paper Bag — for boxed lunch or takeaway service

Applying to Items and Packages

Individual Items

When editing an item, you can specify which presentation styles are available for it and mark the choice as compulsory. When a compulsory style is set, a presentation style must be selected before the item can be added to a quote or online order.

The selected style shows on the quote line — for example, Fresh Fruit — Shared Platter — so customers know exactly how their catering will be presented.

Packages

Presentation styles are particularly well-suited to packages. A lunch package of several items can be given a single presentation style (e.g. "Individual Bag") that covers the whole package, rather than appearing on each item line. This keeps quotes clean while still capturing the service detail.

How It Flows Through Puree

Quotes

The selected presentation style appears alongside the item or package name on the customer-facing quote, giving a clear picture of how their order will be served.

Dockets

Chef dockets and driver dockets display the presentation style so your team knows how each item needs to be prepared and presented before it leaves the kitchen.

Online Store

Customers see the available presentation styles when adding an item to their cart. Any surcharge is shown clearly and updates the item price. When the customer checks out, all that detail is automatically carried through into the quote — no manual re-entry needed.

Presentation Styles vs Item Options

It's worth understanding the difference between these two features:

• Presentation Styles — global, set up once, apply to any item or package. Describe how the catering is served.
• Item Options — configured per item. For choices specific to that item, like sandwich fillings or portion sizes.

You can use both on the same item — for example, a sandwich with a choice of filling (item option) served as either shared platter or individual bag (presentation style).

For full setup instructions, see our Presentation Styles help page.