Greenwich Kitchen
- Are you looking to start up or expand your catering business and need more space?
- Would you like to run cooking or catering training?
- Are you interested in ‘greening’ your catering business, or making your menus more healthy?
If so, Greenwich Kitchen, a production and training kitchen, built to the highest environmental specifications, could be the answer.
We offer the following:
- Hire of our stunning, state of the art kitchen facilities to help minimize your carbon footprint – see full list of specifications below
- A flexible, cost effective, all inclusive pricing system
- Business support – helping you to grow your business – please see full details below
- Advice on menu planning and how to incorporate health, sustainability and the use of low carbon ingredients
- Environmental health and business registration advice
- An introductory offer of a 1-hour business support session
The aims of our organisation are to help small catering companies grow and develop in a financially and environmentally sustainable way. We will support you at every step to reduce your carbon emissions through effective working practices. We are committed to making catering sustainable. Link to Sustain’s 7 principles page.
In short we offer a complete service to ensure your catering business has the best chance of success in a competitive and challenging market.
Our kitchen hire prices range from £15 - £50 per hour depending on the size and legal structure of your organisation and the space you wish to use. Please call for further information, or to arrange a free, ‘no obligation’ visit SOME TEXT MISSING
Business Support
We offer a comprehensive business support package that combines experienced business advisors with nutrition and sustainability expertise.
This service includes:
- Advice on menu planning – incorporating health, sustainability and the use of low-carbon ingredients
- Guidance on suppliers, sourcing and co-operative purchase models
- Advice and guidance on environmental health and business registration
- Full feasibility studies and development of business plans, including information on:
- Legal structures
- Marketing plans
- Costing
- Competitive analysis
- Operational systems
- Pricing and costing systems
- Stock control systems
Kitchen Specifications
Built to the highest environmental specifications Greenwich Kitchen boasts a range of energy efficient and low impact commercial catering equipment including:
- Induction hobs
- Rational oven
- Steam-collecting dishwasher
- Full recycling provision
- Complete food composting facility provided by Aardvark www.aardvarkrecycling.org.uk
- Grease packs for biodegradable treatment of waste-water
- Blast chiller
- Ecological cleaning products
Training/Preparation Kitchen
Please download a plan of the kitchen (link to pdf here)
Please download a copy of the conditions of use (link to pdf here)
For more information about the principles of sustainable catering please download our 7 principles (link to pdf here)