For the trade
Food suppliers and wholesalers for caterers
The delivered foodservice wholesalers, cash and carry chains and equipment suppliers UK caterers buy from, with how ordering works at each. Facts from each company's own published information. Not affiliated with any of them.
Delivered foodservice
Brakes (Sysco GB)
Brakes is a delivered foodservice wholesaler supplying caterers, restaurants and public sector kitchens across Great Britain.
Bidfood
Bidfood is a delivered foodservice wholesaler supplying hospitality, care, education and other catering customers across the UK.
JJ Foodservice
JJ Foodservice is a foodservice wholesaler offering next-day delivery and collection from its branches.
Hopwells
Hopwells is an independent foodservice wholesaler based in Nottingham, supplying frozen, chilled and ambient food to caterers, schools and hospitality businesses.
Harlech Foodservice
Harlech Foodservice is a family-owned delivered foodservice wholesaler based in Criccieth, Gwynedd, supplying caterers across Wales, the North West and the West Midlands.
Thomas Ridley Foodservice
Thomas Ridley Foodservice is a delivered foodservice wholesaler based at Rougham, near Bury St Edmunds, supplying caterers across East Anglia, London, Kent and the South East.
Philip Dennis Foodservice
Philip Dennis Foodservice is a delivered foodservice wholesaler supplying caterers in the South West, Oxfordshire and the Midlands.
Castell Howell Foods
Castell Howell Foods is a family-owned foodservice wholesaler based at Cross Hands, Carmarthenshire, delivering across Wales and into the West Country and the border counties.
Cash and carry
Booker
Booker is a trade cash and carry wholesaler with branches across the UK, also offering delivery to business customers.
Costco UK
Costco runs membership warehouses in the UK, with a business membership for business owners and managers.
Bestway
Bestway Wholesale runs cash and carry depots across Great Britain under the Bestway and Batleys names.
Parfetts
Parfetts is an employee-owned wholesaler running cash and carry depots in the North of England, the Midlands and the South, with delivered services.
Equipment
Nisbets
Nisbets supplies catering equipment, utensils, tableware, chef clothing and disposables online and through UK stores.
CaterKwik
CaterKwik supplies commercial catering equipment online and from its catering centre in Ulverston, Cumbria.
Guides
Bidfood vs Brakes: Minimum Orders, Depots and Accounts
Brakes publishes a £150 minimum order and Bidfood Direct £175 ex VAT. Both deliver to businesses from 26 to 30 depots. A factual comparison, Sep 2026.
Cash and Carry or Delivered Wholesaler: Which Fits
A cash and carry has no minimum order but takes your time; a delivered wholesaler brings stock to you for a minimum spend. How each works and who it suits.
Opening a Trade Account: What Wholesalers Ask For
Wholesalers ask for proof you run a business, usually ID and a business document. What Booker, Costco, Bestway, Brakes and others publish on opening one.
Where Caterers Buy Hog Roast Pigs: Sizes, Sources, Prices
Hog roast caterers buy whole pigs, usually 40 to 70kg, from butchers, farms using approved abattoirs and specialist suppliers. What to ask and how to store.