aid: zerocater
name: Zerocater
description: 'Zerocater is a San Francisco-founded corporate catering and workplace
  food company that builds and manages office food programs for businesses. It acts
  as an intermediary between employers and a curated network of local restaurants,
  caterers and chefs, covering daily corporate catering (buffet and individually boxed),
  chef-led on-site corporate cafeterias with snack and barista programs, and full-service
  event catering with on-site staffing. Its CaterAi product uses AI to recommend and
  assemble menus from a team''s stated preferences, dietary restrictions and order
  history, and to book on-site staff and event decor. Zerocater states it serves 500+
  companies across 12+ major U.S. metros including the SF Bay Area, New York, Austin,
  Boston, Los Angeles, Chicago, Washington DC, Seattle, Denver, Dallas, Atlanta, Philadelphia
  and Phoenix. It runs a customer-facing ordering web application at app.zerocater.com
  backed by an undocumented Django REST Framework token-authenticated JSON API (v3),
  whose hypermedia root index is served anonymously, and it publishes a first-party
  Python client library on PyPI.'
image: https://zerocater.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/make-catering-effortless-with-cater-ai-social.jpg
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/zerocater/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-08-05'
modified: '2026-08-05'
tags:
- Company
- Food and Beverage
- Catering
- Corporate Services
- Workplace
- Food Delivery
- Hospitality
- Artificial Intelligence
- Ordering
- Marketplace
apis:
- aid: zerocater:zerocater-api-v3
  name: Zerocater API v3
  description: 'The internal-but-anonymously-discoverable JSON API behind the Zerocater
    ordering application at app.zerocater.com. Built on Django REST Framework, it
    serves an RFC 6570 URI-template hypermedia index at its root listing 23 resource
    URLs covering companies, company people, meals, meal and vendor ratings, payment
    methods (including Plaid bank authorization), menu voting/suggestions/comments,
    and account operations. Reads are authenticated with an `Authorization: Token <token>`
    header. Zerocater publishes no OpenAPI, no developer portal and no public API
    documentation for this surface; the contract recorded here was probed live and
    corroborated against Zerocater''s own open-source Python client.'
  humanURL: https://github.com/ZeroCater/PyZeroCater
  baseURL: https://app.zerocater.com/api/v3
  tags:
  - Catering
  - Meals
  - Ordering
  - Payments
  - Ratings
  properties:
  - type: APIDiscovery
    url: discovery/zerocater-api-v3-discovery.yml
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/zerocater-authentication.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/zerocater-problem-types.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/zerocater-conventions.yml
  - type: SourceCode
    url: https://github.com/ZeroCater/PyZeroCater
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: License
  name: MIT
  url: https://github.com/ZeroCater/PyZeroCater/blob/master/LICENSE
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/zerocater-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://zerocater.com/
- type: Blog
  url: https://zerocater.com/blog/
- type: BlogRSS
  url: https://zerocater.com/blog/feed/
- type: Support
  url: https://zerocater.com/about/contact/
- type: FAQ
  url: https://zerocater.com/faq/
- type: SignUp
  url: https://app.zerocater.com/signup
- type: Login
  url: https://app.zerocater.com/login
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://zerocater.com/terms/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://zerocater.com/privacy/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/ZeroCater
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/zerocater-llms.txt
- type: Packages
  url: packages/zerocater-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/zerocater-packages.yml
- type: APIDiscovery
  url: discovery/zerocater-api-v3-discovery.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/zerocater-authentication.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/zerocater-problem-types.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/zerocater-conventions.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/zerocater-conformance.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/zerocater-lifecycle.yml
- type: SecondaryMarket
  url: https://forgeglobal.com/zerocater_stock/
- type: Wikipedia
  url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zerocater
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/zerocater
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-05'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 11
  pass: local-v1