It is a community-focused initiative which partners with local schools to use their kitchens on weekday evenings and weekends. They turn this underutilised asset into a thriving, eco-friendly home delivery takeaway food service, with the school receiving a share of the revenue.
School Kitchen is a new Takeaway Food model with three primary goals:
🍽 To support local communities
🍽 To provide great-tasting food from around the world
🍽 To prioritise sustainability
They will launch with:
You’ll be able to mix and match dishes from the different restaurants in each order. The School Kitchen will operate from the kitchens of Carr Junior School on Ostman Road in Acomb, York.
​This is the takeaway that gives back as it offers you an ethical sustainable alternative to other food delivery options. School Kitchen will prioritise customers, communities, and employees, rather than focusing exclusively on returns for shareholders!
Sustainability is another key aim, so the initiative will install solar panels at partner schools to generate electricity, use bikes or electric mopeds for all deliveries, and only use reusable, recyclable, or compostable, biodegradable packaging.
In addition to offering a food delivery service, School Kitchen will be running cooking demonstrations for pupils, as well as providing apprenticeship jobs for school leavers, to offer opportunities to the next generation. All of their employees, from chefs to delivery riders, are being paid at least the current living wage of ÂŁ12ph.
​David Nicholson, Managing Director of School Kitchen, said:
“I’d worked in food for many years, although always in retail rather than hospitality. I was increasingly feeling that the big corporations I was used to working for had lost their connection with their customers and the communities they were based in. That’s why I decided to leave and start my own socially-conscious food business which prioritised customers and communities, rather than focusing exclusively on returns for shareholders.
“I set about designing a business which had good working conditions, connection to communities, reduced carbon emissions, and decreased packaging waste, whilst still being financially viable. The result was School Kitchen. We’re so excited to be finally launching in York, with big plans to expand if the appetite – in every sense – is there for our new kind of takeaway.”
​Find out more​For more information, visit www.schoolkitchen.com.
​📍 School Kitchen will operate from the kitchens of Carr Junior School on Ostman Road in Acomb, York, YO26 5QA
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