Our Sponsors
With a kitchen boasting more than 650 industry awards, Amadeus delivers innovative solutions to venues and event organisers across the country, providing visitors with a unique and memorable food experience. We are a group of passionate people, delivering excellence and innovation across retail, conferencing and banqueting catering from some of the UKs most exciting venues. We are born from world class venues such as the NEC, ICC Birmingham and the Arenas – Utilita Arena Birmingham and Resorts World Arena.
ASM Global is the world’s leading producer of entertainment experiences. It is the global leader in venue and event strategy and management—delivering locally tailored solutions and cutting-edge technologies to achieve maximum results for venue owners.The company’s elite venue network spans five continents, with a portfolio of more than 350 of the world’s most prestigious arenas, stadiums, convention and exhibition centers, and performing arts venues, including AO Arena, OVO Arena Wembley, first direct Arena, Bonus Arena, P&J Live, Utilita Arena Newcastle, York Barbican, Olympia London, The Bridgewater Hall in the UK.ASM Global’s European Catering Division, CGC Catering delivers food and beverage management services to this portfolio, as well as York Racecourse, Ripon Racecourse, Beverley Racecourse, and The Halls in Wolverhampton to name a few.
Beyond Meat is a leading plant-based meat company offering a portfolio of revolutionary plant-based meats, designed to have the same taste and texture as animal-based meat. Beyond Meat’s brand commitment, Eat What You Love™, represents a strong belief that there is a better way to feed our future and that the positive choices we all make, no matter how small, can help us move towards the kind of future we want. Beyond Meat products - which includes burgers, sausages, mince, meatballs, and a new chicken-style range - are available at approximately 190,000 retail and foodservice outlets in over 80 countries worldwide.
"As one of the UK’s leading foodservice providers we have a passion for great food and are always focused on going the extra mile for our customers. Being the best is a key part of our ethos, and we strive to deliver a top customer experience, making life easier for customers and helping them grow. In our range of over 10,000 products, which includes the best of both own brand and leading foodservice brands, customers will find everything they need from store-cupboard ingredients to frozen and chilled food, soft drinks, wines, beers and spirits, cutlery, crockery and cooking utensils, cleaning products and catering equipment. The success of our customers is paramount to us and we believe that providing great service is more than simply dropping off deliveries, it’s about adding value. Our expertise, industry knowledge, nutrition advice and guidance on food standards legislation help to keep our customers ahead of the curve and on target."
Britvic is the largest supplier of branded still soft drinks in Great Britain and the number two supplier of branded carbonated soft drinks. The company combines its own leading brand portfolio, including Robinsons, J2O, Drench, Purdey’s, Fruit Shoot and R White’s with PepsiCo brands such as Pepsi Max, Tango, 7UP and Lipton Ice Tea, which Britvic produces and sells in Great Britain and Ireland under exclusive PepsiCo agreements. Operating in both the ‘Take Home’ and ‘On-Premise’ channels, Britvic offers its customers a portfolio of soft drinks to meet every consumer occasion and has a strong track record of delivering successful innovation.
Creating exciting, memorable food and service experiences is what CH&CO is all about.
Our expertise and enthusiasm span the diverse hospitality sector and our talented teams of chefs and service professionals operate across the UK and Ireland in workplaces, schools, venues, visitor attractions, stadia healthcare, livery halls and events.
Food has the power to make people feel good, and that goes beyond what’s on the plate. Great food and hospitality bring people together whatever the location, whatever the occasion, lifting the spirit and fuelling emotional positivity and physical wellbeing. This is our motivation across our areas of expertise, which includes event catering, workplace cafés and restaurants, corporate fine dining and hospitality, visitor attraction catering, pupil and staff feeding at state and independent schools, university cafés and restaurants, hospital staff and visitor restaurants, hospices, Livery Hall catering, venue sales, event management and production, and reception and concierge services.
We are committed to operating in a responsible and sustainable way and we proudly hold the top-level three-star Food Made Good rating from the Sustainable Restaurant Association.
Dynamify is the all-in-one digital ordering platform for the contract catering industry - live in over 3,000 sites across 15 countries. Dynamify's omnichannel technology is white-labelled by the world’s largest contract caterers (including giants like Sodexo, ISS, Atalian, Elior, WSH, and CH&CO), who deploy Dynamify’s app and kiosk technology into offices and manufacturing sites, universities and schools, hospitals, venues and stadia, and airport lounges.
Franke Coffee Systems is the World’s leading provider in innovative coffee solutions. With passion and expertise we enable our customer’s successes.
Franke Coffee Systems manufacture professional all round hot beverage systems which can be tailored to meet the caterer’s every requirement.
All equipment has an intuitive and customizable touch screen allowing at the touch of the finger a perfect coffee classic or a delicious hot/cold foam beverage. A fully automatic coffee solution that appeals to all the senses.
All of this supported by the country’s finest after sales support and own national service team.
Knorr Professional has spent over 180 years bringing together perfect ingredients that transform simple dishes into something special. Through our extensive range of bouillons and a shared passion for joy-filled food, we provide professional chefs at all levels with the building blocks to creating dishes which make mealtimes memorable. Our latest partnership sees Chef Tom Kerridge named as the brand’s Creative Director, helping to launch a new training hub for chefs. The online platform, known as “The Base”, contains exclusive recipes developed by Tom and filmed as video tutorials, plus a series of training videos aimed at helping other professional chefs to improve their skills in the kitchen. The Base web hub, along with further information about the Best in the Business campaign from Knorr Professional Bouillons, can be found at: www.ufs.com/bitb.
Nestlé Coffee Partners offers a portfolio of loved and trusted brands including We Proudly Serve Starbucks® and NESCAFÉ®. A range of everyday favourites and speciality beverages are available in barista-served, self-serve, instant and vending coffee solutions, supported with dedicated training programmes and category expertise. Whatever your customer needs, we offer something that’s right for every occasion.
Procter & Gamble Professional™ provides noticeably superior cleaning and sanitising solutions to foodservice businesses, supporting both front of house, and kitchen hygine. Our portfolio of the world's most recognised brands is trusted to overcome the toughest professional challenges, helping lift up businesses, so they can lift up their communities.
Nowadays, cleaning and hygiene measures can be the making or breaking of a successful business. As consumer expectations continue to rise, businesses need to achieve a level of cleanliness that impresses even the toughest of critics. Not only do customers need to be satisfied, but restaurant staff, managers and business owners are paying more attention to make sure they get it right the first time.
P&G Professional™ not only offers simple and effective solutions that ease industry pressures, but our brands - Ariel® Professional, Lenor® Professional, Fairy® Professional, Flash® Professional and Febreze® Professional - ensure that a superior level of cleaning is achieved whilst giving professionals confidence that their business will always shine.
RDA are an award-winning, family run design and installation company, specialising in creating innovative spaces for the catering, hospitality, retail and workplace sectors.
Search are proud suppliers of exceptional quality temporary and permanent staff into the contract catering market. Our team of industry specialists are well placed to ensure you secure only the finest talent out there. Market leading contract caterers will go above and beyond in exceeding the expectations of their clients and we believe your recruitment partners should exactly the same.
Unox is a leading global supplier of commercial oven solutions including SPEED-X, the world's first self-washing combi speed oven, and CHEFTOP MIND.Maps, a range of compact, countertop and ‘Big’ combi ovens. For operators looking for dedicated bakery equipment, the BAKERTOP MIND.Maps professional pastry ovens, BAKERLUX SHOP.Pro and BAKERLUX SPEED.Pro, the first speed baking oven, lead the market. Redefining hot food preservation, EVEREO®, can maintain food at serving temperature for up to 72 hours.
Our Suppliers
At Matthew Clark, we know it’s been a very tough period for the Hospitality industry; as a supplier that only services the On-Trade, we’ve also shared your challenges. We remained open throughout the pandemic and we’re delighted to be here, ready once again to help you welcome guests and customers. We all know our clients have a choice which is why we all go the extra mile in everything that we do.
We have extended our drinks portfolio to meet market demands and feature over 7,000 products from popular brands to niche producers. This includes over 1,300 wines and Champagnes, an extensive range of spirits, soft drinks and our specialist Boutique beers collection. Matthew Clark’s Wine List continues to evolve and the Sommelier Wine Awards judges voted us Classic Regions and New World Merchant of the Year in 2019 and 2020 respectively.
We are also committed to our “added value” offer, delivering support via market insight, merchandising, marketing tools, training and category management, all of which give our customers tools to drive revenue, standards, guest satisfaction and to save costs. For instance, we offer a dedicated and high quality Design Studio for bespoke point of sale and a wine listing service.
At Matthew Clark, our ethos is a commitment to deliver whilst ensuring our customers are at the heart of our thinking.
It’s not just our depth of on-trade experience, it’s applying it to all that we do. That’s why with Matthew Clark, the experience matters.
For more information visit www.matthewclark.co.uk or follow us @matthewclarkltd
Our Supporting Partners
Caterer.com is the hospitality industry’s hiring platform matching the right people with the right jobs. Our unrivalled technology, teams and solutions help businesses reach the right hospitality people with their jobs and brand messaging. With search, match and apply tools unlike any other, we’re built to find you the right hospitality hires for future business success.
COREcruitment is an International Recruitment agency with divisions in the UK, USA, Canada, Europe, South Africa and the Middle East specialising in the Hospitality, Catering, Leisure, FM and Service Industry sectors.
We excel at recruitment, screening and presenting candidates. All of our specialised consultants have industry experience and have been trained in conducting competency-based interviews. At COREcruitment we endeavour to reference check all candidates that we place with our clients."
Hospitality catering can sometimes be seen as a secondary focus but has the potential to make a powerful impact for clients and food service providers. Whether looking to encourage and enhance workplace collaboration or providing a warm welcome for guests, in providing a shared hospitality experience, clients benefit from deepening personal relationships, leading to higher levels of trust and team performance.Spoonfed facilitates hospitality catering, globally, like no other platform, providing event bookers with full transparency and control, and food service providers with all the management, reporting tools and integrations to ensure the right food to the right place, on time, every time.With features spanning group ordering, commissary production, marketplace and client account grouping, and management, through our enterprise platform, we are leading the way in ensuring high standards in food quality and presentation are matched by the ability to deliver efficiently and flawlessly.
A passionate team, fanatical about food, and committed to creating the freshest, most flavourful, globally-inspired food concepts for our clients across foodservice. We’ve been delighting our customers with exciting concepts for over a decade. Never standing still, we constantly innovate with fresh new ideas and category-leading levels of service and agility.Our bold adventurous spirit and positively restless dedication to innovation fuel us to find new flavours and unearth the freshest, tastiest food concepts to meet our clients’ needs. From our vibrant global street food to our hand-stretched fresh dough pizza and authentic corn tortilla burritos.We’re clear in our purpose: to take the weight off our clients’ plates and make life easier with our complete end-to-end market-leading foodservice solutions.We’re collaborative, working side by side with our clientsfrom menu innovation and concept development through to product training, marketing, and sales support. We providethe tastiest, most innovative food solutions so our clients can focus on delighting their customers and unlocking opportunities to drive revenue.
Valentine Equipment and CuisinEquip specialise in high-quality cooking equipment for the professional kitchen. From globally recognised, Swiss-manufactured, Valentine fryers that combine 70 years of innovation and development, to artisan pasta making machines from Bottene, Vito portable oil filtration equipment and LightFry, the first commercial air fryer on the market, our portfolio is designed to suit the needs of today’s operator. Backed by comprehensive service and support, our equipment can be found in kitchens across the UK and Ireland and is synonymous with chefs and operators for being robust, reliable and capable of delivering consistent results.