Catering facilities provide both much-needed nourishment and vital revenues at sports venues of all sizes. Whether you operate a community facility or premier stadium, we design and install commercial kitchens and bars that help you to feed your crowds and maximise returns. You need to cook and serve with confidence – and we know what it takes to deliver everything from simple food-to-go kiosks, to lavish corporate dining kitchens.
MEETING YOUR DIVERSE NEEDS
In the sports and leisure catering sector, your customers could include participants at local leisure facilities, stadium spectators as well as non-matchday diners, which can span functions and conferences. Catering spaces range from food-to-go kiosks, to bars and small kitchens in local clubs, right up to full banqueting and à la carte operations in the largest stadia.
It’s an incredibly broad mix, which takes understanding and experience to deliver the right solutions. We’ve got both in abundance, built on more than 40 years of designing and installing kitchens for sports and leisure venues of every size and every type.
MEETING YOUR CATERING CHALLENGES
We pride ourselves on delivering tailored front of house and back of house solutions, addressing the individual challenges of different sports and leisure venues. Whether you need a simple set-up that community volunteers can master without hesitation, or a high-productivity kitchen in a top level stadium, we have what it takes to get the result.
Many sports clubs rely on generous local volunteer work, often from families and friends of players or supporters. Such heroes are seldom from a professional catering background, which only heightens the need keep cooking facilities simple, easy to use and well laid out.
MEETING ALL REQUIREMENTS
Whether you’re a local grass-roots club in need of an upgrade, or a new build stadium planning to cater for 1000’s, we’re experienced at delivering all the kitchen, bar and servery solutions you may need.
NEED A HELPING HAND?
Kitchen design is more than just picking appliances from a list. Trading periods in sports venues typically occur in short bursts centred around a matchday schedule, and this usually means highly efficient, busy kitchens twinned with lightning fast service.
Therefore, we factor in ergonomics, workflows, safety and hygiene, customer traffic and more. We also take time to understand your needs outside of matchdays too as this is where much needed extra revenue can be generated. In fact, we know sports catering like your cooks know their burgers and your punters know their pints.
OUR KITCHEN DESIGNS GIVE YOU EVERYTHING YOU NEED ACROSS FOOD PREP, STORAGE, WASHING, COOKING, PLATING AND SERVING. THERE IS NOT A SQUARE INCH THAT WE DO NOT CONSIDER
WHY CATERING MATTERS IN SPORT
KITCHENS FOR GRASS-ROOTS CLUBS – KEEPING PARTICIPANTS AND THEIR FAMILIES FED
PROFESSIONAL PROJECT MANAGEMENT FOR PRO KITCHENS IN THE BIGGEST STADIA
DESIGNS TO SUPPORT NON-MATCHDAY REVENUES TOO – WE’VE GOT YOU COVERED
FROM FAMILY EVENTS AT LOCAL CLUBS, TO CORPORATE FUNCTIONS IN LARGE VENUES
PROVEN IN SPORTS CATERING
Working with everyone including project consultants, architects, contractors, owners, elected committees and community volunteers, we’ve been specified for a wide range of projects in sport and leisure sectors.
Our experience ranges from small bars and coffee shops in local sports clubs, through to prestigious, top flight stadia. Whatever level of input you need, you can have confidence in our catering design experts to deliver designs that work for you.
CORPORATE CATERING
Corporate hospitality is huge business in the spectator sport business. From corporate banqueting suites to directors lounges and private catering in executive boxes, sports dining goes way beyond the humble half time burger. But these kinds of projects are not without challenges! We were privileged to work with chef Raymond Blanc in reshaping the Emirates Stadium’s prestigious Diamond Club kitchen. This presented particular planning and design challenges to ensure that Michelin-quality food can be served, in quantity, and to a strict, unmovable schedule.
SERVING TEA STRAIGHT FROM THE WICKETS, OR KEEPING THOUSANDS OF THIRSTY FOOTBALL FANS HAPPY? IT DOESN’T MATTER WHAT YOUR SPORT IS, WE DESIGN KITCHENS THAT TICK EVERY BOX
COMMUNITY CLUBS
Whether it’s crown green bowls, golf, cricket, tennis, rugby or football, amateur sports at community level provide social hubs for enthusiasts to compete and for the public to support their favoured sport at grass-roots level. These operations commonly struggle to make money, and therefore, the sale of food and drink before, during and after the event is often the only route to covering essential costs. We understand the operational and budgetary constraints that these businesses face, and we have a pedigree in helping community projects achieve success very limited resources.
END-TO-END SOLUTIONS
We work with you from start to finish, recommending the best kitchen, bar or servery equipment to meet your individual needs before installing, commissioning and training your staff to operate it.
SECTOR FOCUS:
THE 19TH HOLE
Over the years, we’ve helped many brilliant golf clubs enhance their catering capabilities to enable them to provide a wonderful environment for members and guests to relax and celebrate. Golf clubhouses are used for a multitude of events and functions from award ceremonies, committee meetings and a whole host of celebratory banquets.
A well set up operation can also generate additional revenue by attracting non-golf customers to hold events during downtime. Major improvements are often funded by devoted fundraising and generous donations, so ensuring that every penny is spent wisely is a crucial factor.
Investing real time in meeting with club’s chairmen and committees has always proven essential in gaining a broad understanding of the needs and resources of the club and to establish a clear and focussed vision. This allows us to provide solutions that are fit for any eventual purpose and with the longevity and reliability which is expected as a minimum.
Every sport and leisure facility has different needs and our experience in this area could be invaluable.
Here are some examples of establishments we’ve helped:
Horton Park Golf Club
Bath Racecourse
Rock Up
Teddington RFC Rugby Club
The Oval
Pype Hayes Golf Club
Wembley Football Club
Windsor Rugby Club
Putney Bowls Club
Hindhead Golf Club
Ealing Cricket Club
Tring Rugby Club
Sovereign Harbour Yacht Club
Coventry Arena (Ricoh Arena)
Please get in touch with us
Whether you’re in the earliest stages of planning or whether you have a site that’s ready to go, it’s never too early to involve us. We can advise and assist you at every stage so let’s start the conversation today.
