1. Go to Catering > Events and click Add New From Template (next to Add New From Scratch).
2. A side panel titled Choose A template lists your active templates. Expand a template to see its sub-title and totals (meals, expenses, invoice items and total).
3. Click Use this Template. A new, unsaved proposal opens with the template's meals, labor & equipment and invoice items already filled in.
4. Add the customer, event date, times, delivery method and anything else, then save the proposal.

Only templates marked Is Active? are offered; inactive ones are kept for reference but cannot be used.