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More Than Meals.
A Complete Operating System.

We provide the digital backbone to streamline your service with us. Manage daily portions, log HACCP temps, track invoices, and grant parents total dietary transparency—all from one app.

Setting Management

Everything your nursery manager needs, built into one intuitive dashboard.

Preschool Room

Total: 34
Custom Requirements
DC1 (Dairy Free)

Precision Ordering

  • Late Cut-offs: Adjust your daily numbers up until 9:15 AM every single morning.
  • Room Breakdowns: Separate your orders by individual rooms (Babies, Toddlers, etc.) to make serving easier.
  • Instant Allergies: Add ad-hoc custom dietary requirements with a single click.

Digital HACCP Logs

Log food arrival temperatures instantly on a tablet or phone. Creates an unchangeable, time-stamped digital audit trail that is fully EHO compliant, with built-in warnings for unsafe holding zones.

Hot Food (≥ 63°C) 11:45 AM
Chicken Korma 74.5

Financial Transparency

Access and download auto-generated, itemised PDF invoices at any time. View any applied account credits dynamically updated on your account dashboard.

Invoice History Unpaid: £642.50

£642.50 May '26

UNPAID

£580.00 Apr '26

PAID

The Parent Portal

A secure, public-facing interface to grant your families total dietary peace of mind and drastically reduce questions for your staff.

  • Live Menu Search Parents can search your specific nursery to view exactly what is on the menu today, tomorrow, or next week.
  • Dietary Match System Parents enter a private 'Dietary Code' (e.g. DC1) to instantly filter the menu and verify their child's safely segregated alternative meal.
  • 14-Allergen Transparency Clear visual tags for the top 14 allergens, alongside downloadable PDF ingredient breakdowns for every dish.

Parent Portal

Menu Viewer

Viewing Menu For

Your Setting's Name

Dietary Profile

Code: DC1

Filtered to show safe alternatives.

Dietary Match Applied

Hot Lunch • Monday

Sunshine Chicken Korma

Dairy-Free Safe GF Safe

Sides

Coconut Infused Rice

Instant Ofsted & EHO Compliance

Once onboarded, we automatically generate customised EYFS Nutritional Framework guides and EHO Food Management manuals tailored exactly to your nursery's menu. Have everything you need ready to hand over to inspectors instantly.

Confidential Document

Statutory Framework Alignment

EYFS Nutritional
& Compliance Blueprint

Demonstrating adherence to the DfE Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) Nutrition Guidance.

1. Fruit & Veg

2. Starchy Carbs

3. Dairy

4. Proteins

Confidential Document

Service Level Agreement

Catering Operations
& Compliance Protocol

Integrated Menus, Allergen Matrices, and Shared HACCP Responsibilities.

14 Allergen Matrix Traceability

Mandatory EHO Condition

Interactive Learning

Farm to Plate Education

Accessible directly via the Parent Portal, we engage children with custom videos showing the journey of our ingredients from local farms to their plates. These videos are branded specifically to your nursery menu to make the connection truly personal.

Farm to Plate Video

Ready to Partner With Us?

Choose the path that works best for your setting. Fast-track your setup online instantly, or speak to our team for a custom proposal.

Fast-Track Setup

Happy with our pricing and ready to proceed? Use our secure portal to configure your package, customise your menu, digitally sign your agreement, and secure capacity instantly.

Launch Self-Onboarding

Custom Consultation

Need a bespoke proposal, have complex multi-site requirements, or just want to chat through how our logistics work? Get in touch with our account managers.

Contact Our Team