If your kitchen was affected by a fire, flood or major equipment failure, how would your business or organisation be impacted? What if your kitchen needed to close for refurbishment or if planned works overran?

Ensuring business continuity during both planned and emergency kitchen closure is hugely important and doesn’t need to be difficult!

We offer a completely free kitchen contingency planning service, where we’ll take details of your current catering operation and produce a custom backup plan for you. As well as giving you a copy for your records, we also keep a copy of your contingency plan on file, so if the worst happens, all you need to do is give us a call and we’ll be able to prepare your temporary kitchen and deliver it to you as soon as possible, reducing design time and stress.

A contingency plan is also ideal for use if there’s a chance your operation could be affected by unexpected busy periods where you could benefit from additional capacity. We can help create plans for the installation of additional prep, production, storage or dishwashing space which can be deployed quickly in the event of additional capacity requirements. This is especially useful for food manufacturers who may require additional temporary production space at short notice, or venues which host a lot of events.

There are a number of key benefits to having a kitchen continuity plan in place:

–  It ensures you and your kitchen staff have a clear strategy in place and know exactly who to contact in the case of a kitchen closure.

–  Planning in advance offers a significant time saving, as we can establish a potential site for temporary facilities to be located, identify any access challenges, and ascertain a suitable size and layout (including suitable equipment) to ensure that an appropriate kitchen can be in place as quickly as possible if ever needed.

–  By being in a position to significantly reduce your kitchen downtime following a closure, it reduces revenue loss and financial uncertainty.

For more information on our free contingency planning service and to request a free, bespoke continuity plan for your kitchen, visit our Kitchen Contingency Planning page.