IndiCater

Happy New Year, everyone ✨🥂💫 We hope you had a fantastic festive break and are heading into 2025 feeling recharged and ready to kick-start the year ahead. This year, there’s so much to look forward to, and we can’t wait to share it all with you. From exciting new partnerships to innovative product development, we’re looking forward to growing our team and helping our clients achieve their very best in 2025. Welcome back! Let’s do this thing 💪 

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from all of us at IndiCater 🎄✨ As we tie a bow on 2024, we want to thank our incredible clients, partners, and followers. Your support and trust mean everything to us, and we’re truly grateful for each and every one of you ❤️ Whether you’re celebrating the big day itself, or simply taking a well-deserved break, we hope you find time to relax, recharge, and enjoy some quality time with loved ones. Over the break, we’ll be running with a slightly reduced team but still maintaining normal operating hours. If you need anything during this time, please don’t hesitate to reach out – we’re always here to help.  Wishing you a joyful festive season and a brilliant start to the new year 🎉 The IndiCater Team ❤️

From gut-friendly foods to personalised plates, plant-based bites, and recipes that help us feel our best (especially as we age!) – next year’s trends are dishing up fresh, fun ways to make dining out healthier and more exciting than ever! We’ve rounded up some of 2025’s biggest nutrition trends in our final blog of 2024 🎉 Here’s what’s on the menu: ✅ How to incorporate gut-friendly ingredients like prebiotics and probiotics into your dishes.  ✅ The rise of personalised nutrition and its potential to make dining more inclusive.  ✅ Creative ways to spotlight fibre-rich, plant-based options that benefit both health and sustainability.  ✅ Rethinking ultra-processed foods with a balanced, transparent approach.  ✅ Nutritional strategies to support vibrant, healthy ageing for your customers. Plus, discover how recipe and menu software can help catering teams test and adopt these trends with ease – streamlining processes, cutting costs, and boosting efficiency. Which nutrition trends are you most excited to see in 2025? Let us know in the comments below👇 

Happy Thanksgiving to our American friends and colleagues 🦃🍂🍄🟫🌰 We're always grateful to work alongside each and every one of you. Wishing you all a day filled with good food and quality time with loved ones 🧡🤎

Yesterday morning I attended the EP Business in Hospitality and AlixPartners Foodservice Growth Event at RIBA in London. It's always such an insightful and inspirational event as well as a great opportunity to network. I was so proud to see no fewer than 10 IndiCater clients in the room, among an amazing group of foodservice providers! 😊 It was also great to catch up with friends at Opsyte and Kanpla. Technology was mentioned numerous times on stage throughout the morning, with caterers emphasising the importance of using tech for operational efficiencies, compliance and expertise. Another topic mentioned multiple times was hospitality as a career choice, and the importance of encouraging people to work in the sector - something that was high on the agenda at People 1st, the sector skills council for hospitality, when I worked there before joining IndiCater 11 years ago. It was so clear to the see the passion for the sector among the speakers yesterday, as well as the incredible and exciting opportunities the sector offers to its employees. At IndiCater, we see our role as helping foodservice businesses make the necessary efficiencies, access their data to enable smarter decision-making, tackling compliance, and do everything you'd expect a tech company to do. But really, our goal is to make it easier for people to love what they do.

Healthy menus don’t have to hurt your margins! Creating menus that are both nutritious and profitable might sound challenging, but they're completely achievable with the right approach. In our latest blog, we share 8 simple, practical tips – some you might already be practising and others that could bring fresh ideas to your menu. From boosting dish appeal (some might say Instagram-worthy 📷) to making your menu more plant-rich, together with The Food Boss we cover: 🍴How to reduce food costs without sacrificing quality. 🥗 The power of plant-based options in improving margins. 💷 Why technology is a non-negotiable for developing profitable menus. Identify the dishes your customers love (and the ones that are eating away at your profits!), and start making smarter, data-driven decisions. Ready to learn how others are already doing it?  Read the blog...

We’re thrilled to celebrate the ongoing success of our incredible client, Coombs Catering Partnership! Based in Lutterworth, Leicestershire, Coombs Catering Partnership is an independent, family-owned business with over 35 years of experience in the catering and hospitality industry. With a true family feel, they focus on tailoring their service to exceed client expectations. For over 15 years, they’ve been delighting their clients with signature bespoke menus, serving schools, homeless shelters, and business sites. As they expanded their operations, they needed a smarter way to handle allergen management, recipe planning, and supplier relationships – and we’re grateful they chose us ❤️  We’ve loved working with the Coombs Catering team over the past year as they’ve embarked on their impressive growth journey. In this spotlight, we take a closer look at how 𝗖𝗼𝗼𝗺𝗯𝘀 𝗖𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗻𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝘀𝗮𝘃𝗲𝗱 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗲𝗳𝗳𝗼𝗿𝘁, 𝗿𝗲𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗲𝗱 𝗰𝗼𝘀𝘁𝘀, 𝗴𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝗰𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗲𝘁𝗶𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝘀𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗲𝗿 𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗴, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 with IndiCater. As Emma Erasmus, Director of Coombs Catering Partnership, said:    “... 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘪𝘱 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘪𝘤𝘦𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘨, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦’𝘴 𝘴𝘰 𝘮𝘶𝘤𝘩 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘱𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘵𝘰 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘭𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘴 𝘸𝘦 𝘬𝘦𝘦𝘱 𝘨𝘳𝘰𝘸𝘪𝘯𝘨."

A brilliant recap of last month's #Quadrants2024 Find out what we got up to at the world's largest vertical market software gathering ❤️🌍...

This week I have spent time with 2 of our oldest clients, who between them have racked up an impressive 𝟯𝟱 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀 with IndiCater! It’s always so valuable to hear first-hand what IndiCater enables our clients to do but to also get their honest feedback on what we could improve and what would enable them to make even more efficiencies. We always say that the IndiCater product is what it is thanks to our clients, who not only tell us what they want and need but also take on board our advice and expertise.  These close partnerships enable us to work together to create the very best solution. #partnerships #hospitalitytech #hospitalitysoftware

In the UK food industry, every penny counts. Accurate, efficient, and data-driven businesses are leading the way. If you feel like you’re lacking the data needed to help your team succeed, integrating your back-of-house software with your EPOS provider is a powerful step (or a huge leap!) towards your growth. AND it’s easier than you think! Here’s how integrating with your EPOS makes a real difference: 💡 Real-time insights: Gain instant visibility into sales, stock, and waste – all in one place. Make smart decisions and adjust on the spot to keep up with demand and hit your targets. 📈 Boosted efficiency: Automatically sync data between your EPOS and back-of-house software to reduce manual work and minimise errors, freeing up your team to focus on what really matters most. 💰 Cost control: Track stock levels and cut down on food waste with direct, accurate data from your EPOS. Better data means better stock control and reduced overheads. Wondering how this works in reality or want to discuss your current EPOS integration? Drop us a message! We partner with CSY Retail Systems Ltd, CRB Cunninghams, Clover, KAPPTURE, ROLLER and many more. Working alongside great people like Marcus Fuller, Ross Pierrepont, Kamran Akhtar and Stuart Brown ❤️ We’ve linked our Integrations page in the comments. Let us know if yours is missing – we’d love to help you become more data-driven and less impacted by tight margins.