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Dinner run-of-show planner
Add, remove, and reorder tasks; set durations, buffers, oven use, and meal time. Tasks are sequential unless you explicitly allow consecutive oven tasks to overlap. Download a text schedule or print the result. This does not recommend cooking temperatures or judge doneness.
Enter tasks in the order they must happen. By default, each finishes before the next begins. Mark oven use only for tasks that occupy an oven slot. To share oven time, check “May overlap preceding oven task” on the later of two consecutive oven tasks. Duration and buffer are minutes.
Dinner timeline
Your task schedule appears here.
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The studio notebook
A useful place to begin.
Clear steps, considered details, and ideas you can put to use.
Work backward from dinner without losing the day
Turn a serving time into an editable sequence with realistic room for change.
Coordinate several dishes with one oven
Use capacity and task order to expose scheduling conflicts before dinner.
Assign hosting roles without making a rigid script
Give guests and helpers clear jobs while keeping the event flexible.
Simplify a holiday menu around your constraints
Choose dishes based on space, effort, and the people attending.
Plan the table and serving flow
Make movement through a busy room easier with a few early decisions.
Recover when dinner runs late
Use a few decision points to keep a delay from becoming confusion.