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Delivered-in office and venue catering specialist, Grazing, has extended its central production unit (CPU) in London’s Bermondsey by almost 50 per cent having taken on the lease of a neighbouring unit.
Grazing’s CPU has been based out of Bermondsey’s Old Jamaica Business Estate since early 2007. The new space will allow the business to produce more than 1,000 additional meals per day.
The expansion is in response to growing demand for catering solutions that can be produced offsite, delivered in, and tailored to the needs of offices with fewer than 1,000 onsite workers at any one time, as well as the flexibility to deliver once, twice or three times a week, depending on attendance.
Since the beginning of the year, four people have already been recruited into new positions at Grazing’s CPU with plans to bring an additional six people into the business to staff the larger space.
Sam Hurst, Chief Grazing Officer, Grazing, said: “It’s always been our intention to expand our CPU as we grow and we plan to take on more space in the future, with the aim to double the size of the business in the next three years. Office managers are getting tired of using pricey delivery apps that don’t adequately cater for the office environment but still need a solution for feeding their employees, which our model is ideal for.
“We’ve made a sizable investment growing our CPU footprint and production capacity to keep pace with demand and it set us up really nicely to service future business.”
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