Contract catering staff in Liverpool

We supply directly into named Compass, Sodexo, Aramark, and ISS sites across Merseyside and the wider North West region. National PSL status is a procurement-team decision held at HQ level, not at regional manager level, so we work unit-by-unit where the catering manager has spend authority. If your region or account has a closed PSL, we can often be added as a regional second-tier supplier for relief cover after one trial booking.

Worker pay for a Production Chef in a B&I kitchen sits at £14-£18 per hour; Catering Assistant pay sits at £11.44-£13 per hour in 2026. Bill rate runs 33-50% above worker pay once holiday pay, employer NIC, pension, and agency margin are included. We quote by role before confirming a booking and hold the same rate for the duration of the assignment so your invoice is predictable.

Yes. For corporate sites inside L1, L2, and L3 we commit a named chef within 2 hours. That catches the Commercial District around Castle Street and Water Street, the Mann Island and Liverpool Waters offices, and the student-accommodation catering sites near the universities. For Knowsley Business Park, Daresbury, Wirral International, and the Sefton industrial estates the realistic window is 24 hours. Breakfast-service cover for a next-day start is the most common call we take.

Yes. Contract kitchens do not fall over because the chef is missing, they fall over because the dishwash is broken and nobody is on the pot sink. We supply catering assistants, kitchen porters, baristas, and front-of-house servers on the same booking as the chef, on one paperwork chain. That matters when a contract caterer runs four service windows in a day: breakfast, mid-morning, lunch, and afternoon tea, plus a meeting-room function.

The clusters we place into most often are the Commercial District in L2, Mann Island and Liverpool Waters in L3, Knowsley Business Park, Daresbury Science Park, Wirral International Business Park, Bootle government estate, and the Speke Enterprise Zone near the airport. University catering contracts at Liverpool John Moores, University of Liverpool, and Liverpool Hope also come through this desk rather than the education sector page.