The last decade has seen dramatic growth for meal delivery services, with a range of companies offering customers a chance to enjoy restaurant-quality food in their own homes either as kits of ingredients or pre-prepared meals.
Based in Lancaster, Replenish Kitchen run by Tom Wilkinson and Rob McGill, offers both pre-prepared meal boxes and ingredients’ kits for home cooking, and the menu is carefully chosen to support fitness and weight loss regimes.
“It’s the perfect solution for busy people who want healthy meals,“ says the owner Tom Wilkinson. Replenish Kitchen currently delivers 3,500 meals a week all over the mainland UK. Factoring in the restaurant and other catering services on top of deliveries, the kitchen produces between 600–700 meals a day.
Recently, Replenish Kitchen moved to a purpose-built production kitchen. Tom worked with Lakes Catering Maintenance to design and commission the new facility. “Lakes were a pleasure to work with,“ says Tom. “Great communication at every stage of the process, and everything was delivered on time.“
Tom and Rob took the opportunity to replace the kitchen’s traditional cooking systems with an iCombi Pro combi oven and iVario Pro multifunctional cooking system from RATIONAL. “Our RATIONAL equipment has helped us to expand massively, purely through the consistency and quality of the results,“ says Tom.
