Hospitality-grade lunches
A full-service lunch experience
— no kitchen or in-house team needed.
We cook, deliver, serve and clear down. It’s everything you’d expect from a staffed canteen — just without the overheads
Fresh, cooked-from-scratch meals, delivered daily, professionally set up and cleared away — just great food and happy people.
Real crockery, real cutlery, real care. Set up and served in your space, no in-house kitchen needed.
Sussex Chef have always been reliable and their food is delicious.
How it works: Plan → Cook → Deliver + Setup → Clear down
Lunch should feel like a benefit, not a burden.
When lunch is uninspiring, morale drops, teams disconnect and another day goes by without anyone sitting down together. Staff shouldn’t have to scramble every night packing a lunch. With us, they don’t.
And let’s face it, packing lunch every day is a chore. After a long day at work, no one wants to worry about what they’re going to take in tomorrow.
We’re here to take that daily stress off everyone’s plate — literally.
Most office food is forgettable. Meal deals in the fridge. Staff eating alone at their desks. Nobody connects. Nobody digests. It’s just fuel.
It doesn’t have to be that way.
Soggy sandwiches don’t build strong teams
The food quality is consistently excellent, the recruits are very well fed and the staff are flexible enough to deal with our demanding schedule.
Just a quick note to thank you for the excellent food and service we received today — everyone was very impressed.
A beautifully run lunch service — without a kitchen in sight
We cook everything fresh in our Sussex kitchen and bring it to your workplace hot, beautifully presented and ready to enjoy.
We handle the setup, light service and clear-down — with real crockery, proper cutlery and a warm, professional presence.
No microwaves.
No plastic trays.
No hassle.
Just food that looks and feels like it was made on-site — without the cost of running a full catering operation.
This is more than lunch. It’s a ritual. A signal that your team matters. A moment to slow down, connect and recharge.
You’ll feel it in the vibe — not just in the food.
Hot, hosted + hassle-free
One or two friendly staff members serve your team, ensuring it feels hosted — just like a traditional canteen, minus the full kitchen team.
Here’s what your team will love
— and what you’ll never have to worry about again
- No on-site kitchen? No problem — we bring the full experience to you
- Proper hot food stations with chafing dishes, crockery and cutlery
- Cooked from scratch daily by our in-house chefs
- Set up and cleared down by our team
- Menus tailored to your team’s tastes and dietary needs
- Designed to bring people together over food
- Locally sourced, seasonal ingredients
- Compostable options available where needed
- Scalable service for teams of 15–150+
- Your own dedicated account manager
- No more packed-lunch stress for your team
- Vegan, gluten-free, halal and allergy-friendly options
- Hosted by Sussex Chef staff — no more lunch admin for your team
Local. Reliable. Exceptionally good.
We’re not a delivery app or a faceless catering chain.
We’re professional chefs who care deeply about food, presentation and experience.
We’ve built a service designed specifically for modern teams who want something better than meal deals — but without the hassle of managing it themselves.
Sussex Chef truly exceeded our expectations… the attention to detail and the quality of their dishes were unparalleled.
Where we deliver
All through Sussex, including: Ardingly, Balcombe, Barcombe, Beddingham, Bolney, Brighton, Burgess Hill, Buxted, Cade Street, Chailey, Chiddingly, Cooksbridge, Cowfold, Crowborough, Cuckfield, Danehill, Ditchling, Duddleswell, East Hoathly, Fairwarp, Falmer, Firle, Five Ashes, Fletching, Forest Row, Framfield, Frant, Glynde, Glyndebourne, Groombridge, Hadlow Down, Halland, Handcross, Hartfield, Haywards Heath, Heathfield, Hellingly, High Hurstwood, Horam, Horsted Keynes, Hove, Isfield, Kingston near Lewes, Laughton, Lewes, Lindfield, Little Horsted, Lower Dicker, Maresfield, Mark Cross, Mayfield, Newick, Nutley, Piltdown, Plumpton, Plumpton Green, Portslade, Pyecombe, Punnetts Town, Ringmer, Rottingdean, Rotherfield, Rushlake Green, Saltdean, Scaynes Hill, Telscombe, Uckfield, Upper Dicker, Waldron, Warbleton, Westmeston, Withyham, Wivelsfield, Wivelsfield Green.
Let’s bring great food to your team and take the stress out of lunchtime.
Tell us a little about your workplace and we’ll send over a tailored menu suggestion and quote — no pressure, just real food made for real people.
