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# Thinking of taking your catering in house?

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 Dukefield Foodservice  
May 2, 2024

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We are **Dukefield Foodservice**, a specialist organisation who support schools in undertaking the transition of managing their own catering service, offering a complete support infrastructure which enables schools to manage their own catering successfully and with confidence.

 

We provide fully compliant food and non-food frameworks to schools and academies that operate their own catering. In addition, we also provide full health and safety kitchen audits that ensure compliance and good practice is adhered to. Our highly experienced training team can offer you one-to-one training or, if preferred, we have a range of e-learning courses available in multiple languages.

 

We have 2 qualified nutritionists who are on hand to help with any queries and our purchasing team are CIPS qualified with many years of experience in the industry. We can ensure that your transition to self-manage is **smooth and effective** by offering professional advice from a team who have a wealth of experience in the education catering environment.

 

Over the past 24 years, we have grown to be one of the largest providers of school catering in our sector.

 

We appreciate that the decision on how your catering operation will run in the future is an important one, so contact us today to find out how we can help you make your catering a success!

 

If you would like additional information, please do not hesitate to contact us on **01204 374 058** or

 

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