Practical thinking on production, operations and growth — for restaurant groups, corporate caterers, and food manufacturers who want to do things properly.
Your rent is under half of what a self-managed kitchen actually costs. We break down the other half: rates, insurance, waste, servicing, and the bills that arrive years after you sign.
Building a London CPU costs around £682,500 upfront and takes over a year. Renting costs much the same per month, with no capital tied up and production live in two weeks. We run the real numbers.
Practical sustainability for food businesses: cutting waste, sorting energy and packaging, and talking about it without the greenwash. The changes that pay for themselves, and the ones your kitchen can handle for you.
Building your own commercial kitchen eats money and time most food businesses don't have. Here's why so many now rent equipped space instead, and what that means for your costs, your flexibility and where you set up.
Home kitchens are a brilliant place to start a food business and a terrible place to grow one. Here's how to tell when you've outgrown yours, and what moving into a commercial space really involves.
Most food businesses that fold in year two don't fail on the food. They fail on leases, cash and capacity. The five patterns behind it, and what the survivors do differently.
Kitting out a commercial kitchen runs to tens of thousands, and much of it can wait or never needs buying at all. What's essential on day one, what your menu dictates, and when renting equipped space beats buying.
A catering business built on one founder's hours has a hard ceiling. How to get past it: what to delegate first, what to write down, when the kitchen becomes the constraint, and learning to sell events you won't cook.