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University of Cambridge
A vastly upgraded kitchen and servery project for one of Cambridge's most unique colleges
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School Kitchens
Commercial kitchen design, installation and support for education environments where reliability, efficiency and compliance matter
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Kitchens for Schools delivered across the UK
From new school kitchens to refurbishments and maintenance, we help multi-academy trusts, councils and education providers create spaces that deliver for both pupils and staff.
Fully equipped kitchens are a crucial part of any education facility, ensuring pupils are well-nourished enough to thrive at school. Don’t settle for a kitchen incapable of meeting your school’s needs. At The Airedale Group, we have the expertise and experience to create efficient kitchens that make life easy for your catering staff and contain everything needed to provide each student with healthy food, day after day.
We ensure that your kitchen is sufficiently equipped for the volume of students receiving meals, with the appropriate features to create nutritious food easily and efficiently, including appropriately sized combi ovens, induction hobs and more. From primary schools to colleges, work with us to create the kitchen your students and staff deserve.
Industrial Kitchens for the Education Sector
Our experts have all the know-how needed to create the very best kitchens for schools, whether you need a brand new school kitchen built and installed, a refurbishment of your existing school or college kitchen or an extension of your existing kitchen to handle increased demand. Our service can be fully turnkey, meaning our experts will take you from creating a custom school kitchen design to securing the proper planning permissions and regulations, fabricating your school kitchen catering equipment, installing it and providing the proper ongoing maintenance.
School Kitchen Design: Tailored to Your Staff and Your Pupils
Whenever we design kitchens for schools, we consider factors like the size and shape of the building itself and the volume of students to cater to create a facility completely custom to your school. We won’t push an extension or significant upgrade unless that’s what your school needs – it’s all about what is best for you and your pupils. For a preexisting school kitchen, we’ll survey the equipment you have and provide our expert judgment on any upgrades and new installations you may need.
School Kitchen Installation: Full Turnkey Solutions
At The Airedale Group, we can offer a full turnkey solution, complete with all M&E and construction fitout as well as our standard kitchen design and build. Our installation process is streamlined and swift, so your school kitchen can be fully operational as soon as possible. When installing school kitchens in Caerphilly, Wales, we completed installations on 73 primary schools to the highest standard in just six weeks, making Caerphilly one of the first Welsh regions to have all primary school kitchens fully refurbished in the wake of the Welsh government’s school meals plan for all primary-aged pupils.
At The Airedale Group, we can offer a full turnkey solution, complete with all M&E and construction fitout as well as our standard kitchen design and build. Our installation process is streamlined and swift, so your school kitchen can be fully operational as soon as possible. When installing school kitchens in Caerphilly, Wales, we completed installations on 73 primary schools to the highest standard in just six weeks, making Caerphilly one of the first Welsh regions to have all primary school kitchens fully refurbished in the wake of the Welsh government’s school meals plan for all primary-aged pupils.
Featured project: Sandycroft Primary School
FAQs
What Catering Equipment is Needed in Schools?
What Catering Equipment is Needed in Schools?
Catering equipment for schools is simple and straightforward. Unlike restaurant kitchens, fryers, specialist grills, and more aren’t necessary. School catering equipment you might require includes:
- A combi oven
- Gas or Induction hobs
- An industrial dishwasher
We can also fit the catering equipment needed for your school canteen design, including a proper servery where students can receive their meals, complete with refrigerated areas for fruits and other chilled products.
What size oven does my school kitchen require?
What size oven does my school kitchen require?
One of the most important considerations for a school kitchen is ensuring that your oven can handle the volume of food required for your student population. If your school is smaller or only a small portion of the student population eats school meals, you may only need a small combi oven, while large-scale school kitchens may require a floor-model combi oven, or more than one.
Our kitchen design experts will consider the space available in your school kitchen and the volume of students you need to feed to select the most appropriate combi oven size for you.
Can You Upgrade an Existing School Kitchen?
Can You Upgrade an Existing School Kitchen?
Existing kitchens in schools and colleges often require upgrades, be that to modernise the equipment, streamline the processes, handle an increased number of students, or as part of larger-scale improvements to your school.
At Airedale, we’ll handle your existing kitchen upgrade with the utmost care, surveying the equipment and facilities you already have to see what can be kept and what requires changing.
How Can I Ensure that My School Kitchen Meets UK Standards?
How Can I Ensure that My School Kitchen Meets UK Standards?
We’ll create your school kitchen to help you comply with all necessary standards, including accessible kitchens to comply with DDA standards for disabled catering staff.
Our kitchen facilities can also help you to create school meals that are compliant with LACA standards, including ample refrigeration areas to store fresh fruit and vegetables to provide your students with a healthy lunch.
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Talk to our team to see how Airedale can help you design, deliver, maintain and optimise your school kitchens