Catering & procurement software for schools
Control costs, simplify recipe management, and ensure allergen safety in your school’s kitchen
Success Story
Bradfield College
save over 100 hours a week
IndiCater’s catering and procurement software
helps Bradfield College accesscritical, cost-saving data
Take control of rising costs in school catering
Make smarter, data-driven decisions to save time and money
Save time
Optimise supplier costs, prevent overspending, and reduce food waste with real-time cost tracking and reporting – ensuring every pound is spent wisely.
Save money
Simplify ordering, invoicing, and menu management – all in one place. Reduce your admin workload and free up your team to focus on what matters most.
Save the guesswork
Track costs, monitor stock levels, and keep spending on track. Gain real-time insights to stay in control of your catering budget with confidence.
Safe, nutritious, and cost-effective meals for schools
Over 900 UK schools use IndiCater to achieve better visibility and control over their catering operations
Real-time supplier integration
Connect directly with suppliers for real-time updates on prices, stock levels, and ingredient information.
Customise menus
Create beautiful, personalised menus with customisable templates that appeal to staff, students and parents.
Detailed reporting
Generate comprehensive reports on meal costs, nutritional content, and allergen information.
Scaling schools
Easily add new schools, internal locations and users as your schools or kitchens grow.
Hospitality ordering
Ordering, room bookings, invoicing, payment, production and delivery schedules all managed in the same system.
Carbon footprint
Understand the carbon footprint of your school’s meals to identify opportunities to improve on your sustainability goals.
FAQs
Frequently asked questions
If your questions aren’t answered here, one of our team members will be happy help
Our school uses an outsourced catering team. Can we still use IndiCater?
Absolutely! IndiCater is designed to streamline your school’s food service operations, regardless of whether you have an outsourced catering team or in-house kitchen staff. IndiCater provides comprehensive financial visibility and ensures the safety of students and staff on site.
We manage more than one school. Can I manage multiple schools within IndiCater?
Yes, managing multiple schools is one of the key benefits of using IndiCater’s food service software. We’ll set up all your schools and food service locations within IndiCater, allowing you to gain full visibility into your food operations and margins across all locations.
We currently manage our food operations through whiteboards and spreadsheets. What makes hospitality software different?
We work with lots of schools and businesses who start with spreadsheets because they are familiar and seemingly free. However, they are costing you more than you realise.
Here’s how using spreadsheets impacts your school’s food service operations:
Time: Manual data entry and constant updates drain your team’s time and reduce profitability.
Risk: A single error in a digit or formula can disrupt operations, leading to inaccurate inventory, faulty reports, and profit loss. Access to accurate allergen and nutritional information is also compromised.
Lack of operational oversight: Spreadsheets cannot manage complex operations, automate processes, or integrate with school software and suppliers, resulting in mistakes, profit loss, and lack of visibility.
Limited access to data: While spreadsheets can organise data, they don’t provide easy access to insights. Identifying trends, inventory usage, and food wastage is difficult, hindering informed decision-making.
Collaboration: Spreadsheets are difficult to share and may contain outdated information, restricting visibility, causing communication breakdowns, frustrating staff, and potentially halting operations.
Using hospitality software like IndiCater solves these issues by automating processes, providing accurate data, and offering full operational visibility, so you can improve efficiency and profitability. Reach out to our team to discuss how we can help.