Trends · data through September 2026

Catering Services in the United Kingdom

Iceflower tracks 379 stores from 344 catering service chains in the United Kingdom. Baxter Storey grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Brakes and Elior.

Rankings come from real card and bank transactions across a panel of 130M+ US and EU consumers. We publish relative growth and rankings, never revenue figures. About the data

Tracked chains
344
Tracked stores
379
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked catering service chains

Ranked by year-over-year growth of share of tracked local spend. Arrows show movement in the rankings since last year. Each dot in the chart is one tracked chain: bigger market position to the right, faster growth higher up, more tracked stores in a bigger dot. Colors match the store map below. Baxter Storey and Brakes sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 B Baxter Storey logo Baxter Storey - +9.7%
2 B Brakes logo Brakes - +1.1%
3 E Elior logo Elior - -18.0%
4 G Gather & Gather logo Gather & Gather - -45.2%
  • Freemans Event Partners
  • 2U Food
  • Rhubarb
  • Riverside Mews
  • Elior
  • Exel Foods
  • Spice Direct
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

379 tracked store locations in the United Kingdom. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Freemans Event Partners (1)
  • 2U Food (1)
  • Rhubarb (5)
  • Riverside Mews (1)
  • Elior (9)
  • Exel Foods (1)
  • Spice Direct (1)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 E Elior logo Elior 9
  • 2 G Gather & Gather logo Gather & Gather 6
  • 3 R Rhubarb 5
  • 4 B Brakes logo Brakes 4
  • 5 B Baxter Storey logo Baxter Storey 3
  • 6 L Laurens Caterers 2
  • 7 D Dine 2
  • 8 M Mellors Catering Services 2
  • 9 C Connect Catering logo Connect Catering 2
  • 10 T The Firepit 2
  • 11 C Compass Group logo Compass Group 2
  • 12 B BaxterStorey 2
  • 13 E ESS 2
  • 14 M Merlins Catering 2
  • 15 C Country Refreshments 2
  • 16 U Under the Oak 1
  • 17 F Foodsy 1
  • 18 M Moore Than Sandwiches 1
  • 19 C Cobnobs 1
  • 20 T The Mobile Catering Group 1
  • 21 M Masons Kitchen 1
  • 22 B Bretton Caterers Ltd 1
  • 23 G Gastronomy London 1
  • 24 F Fosters Event Catering 1
  • 25 O O'Connor's 1
  • 26 S Salts Sandwiches 1
  • 27 S S & J Catering 1
  • 28 M Mayurs Catering 1
  • 29 B Buckleys at the chartroom 1
  • 30 E Elegant Cuisine Ltd. 1
  • 31 H Hudsons Catering 1
  • 32 B Blue Pepper Catering 1
  • 33 T The Whistlestop Express 1
  • 34 T The Good Eating Co. Ltd. 1
  • 35 M Milkshed Catering 1
  • 36 F Food by Sean 1
  • 37 A Aquavita Catering Ltd 1
  • 38 T The Pantry Catering 1
  • 39 S Smoked Up BBQ & Grill Ltd 1
  • 40 C Cymraeg Vending 1
  • 41 J James Brown Catering 1
  • 42 F Flora Catering 1
  • 43 I Inferno Catering 1
  • 44 T The Gipsy Hill Smokehouse 1
  • 45 A Aaron Catering 1
  • 46 B Bovingdons 1
  • 47 G Glenthurston Apartments 1
  • 48 D Delhicious Foods 1
  • 49 T The Tastery 1
  • 50 F Freemans Catering 1

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