About Us
Our recipe - your success
CLASSIC CUISINE - THE FAMILY-OWNED BUSINESS FOR CATERERS
Classic Cuisine was founded by real chefs, for real caterers who wanted simplicity with extremely high quality.
The Innovation Kitchen
At the heart of our approach is a dedicated 'Innovation Kitchen'. It goes beyond conventional new product development (NPD) that often just creates variations of existing ideas.
Instead, the Innovation Kitchen gives our chefs a free and open brief to create outstanding new gourmet meals as 'signature dishes', for food that demonstrates the very best in individually hand finished prepared meals.
Caterers can use Classic Cuisine dishes to mark out their own individuality.
Research and attention to detail are a major factor in our success. For example, we spent several months formulating and perfecting a pastry which would remain perfect after blast freezing. The results have to be tasted to be believed.
The factory is designed to precisely replicate the cooking process of a real chef in a real kitchen. Each prepared meal ends up as a perfect reflection of the original gourmet dish.
And if you want a bespoke variation on the dish - or perhaps have a completely new idea of your own - you'll find Classic Cuisine very receptive to creating what you need.
Key facts:
- Specialist suppliers of high quality frozen gourmet meals for food service.
- British privately-owned business, opened in 1990 with just four staff.
- Now a committed Investor in People, with 80 employees (2008).
- Purpose-built, 26,000 sq ft factory in Northampton, opened in 1998, with full EFSIS accreditation to the highest standard.
- 12 major industry awards in the last decade.
- Over 6 million meals per year.
- Over 70 products in the range, with constant new product development for both the standard range and bespoke menu items at the request of caterers.
- Available from wholesalers and distributors across the UK.