At Bidfood, we’re focused on going the extra mile for our customers. Being the best is a key part of our ethos, and our focus is on delivering the best customer experience, making life easier and helping customers to grow. We’re serious about service excellence and getting it right first time, and we’ve invested in building an infrastructure that keeps us close to our customers.

In our range of over 13,000 products, which includes the best of both own brand and leading foodservice brands, customers will find everything they need, from fresh ambient, frozen and chilled food, soft drinks, wines, beers and spirits to cutlery, crockery and cooking utensils, cleaning products and catering equipment.

In addition to great products, we also help customers stay ahead of the curve with insights on key food trends, creative recipes and menu ideas through our team of development chefs, nutritional and product advice, guidance on food standards and legislation, and inspiring marketing materials. We also work closely with customers to address the key corporate responsibility and sustainability challenges facing foodservice.

The Blue Badge Access Awards are a unique design competition which seeks original ideas to improve access and provide an enhanced experience for hotel guests and travellers, particularly for those with disabilities.

Since 2016, the awards have enjoyed support from Her Majesty’s Government, peers in the House of Lords, a wide range of disability groups, the media, hospitality organisations, as well as sponsors and entrants from around the world.

As we move into the next phase, the Awards are broadening in scope, with barriers to entry being further reduced. We will continue to engage with the design and architectural communities, who have been immensely proactive in their support thus far, but we wish to cast the net a little wider, as well as to encourage those who wouldn’t necessarily consider themselves ‘creatives’ or ‘designers’ to participate in the process and share their ideas.

Brakes UK has been serving chefs across the food industry for over 50 years providing expert knowledge and specialist solutions for every sector. We can provide advice, ideas and products tailored to our customers' needs and every product in our range has been developed with chefs and customers in mind, making sure we deliver quality and taste with every bite.

Britvic is the largest supplier of branded still soft drinks in Great Britain and the number two supplier of branded carbonated soft drinks. The company combines its own leading brand portfolio, including Robinsons, J2O, Drench, Purdey’s, Fruit Shoot and R White’s with PepsiCo brands such as Pepsi Max, Tango, 7UP and Lipton Ice Tea, which Britvic produces and sells in Great Britain and Ireland under exclusive PepsiCo agreements.

Operating in both the ‘Take Home’ and ‘On-Premise’ channels, Britvic offers its customers a portfolio of soft drinks to meet every consumer occasion and has a strong track record of delivering successful innovation.

We are CH&Co. We create uplifting catering and hospitality experiences across all life stages and locations, including workplaces, destinations, venues, events, education and healthcare.
Food has the power to make people feel good, and that goes beyond what’s on the plate. Great food experiences lift the spirit, bring people together and fuel emotional positivity and physical wellbeing. This is our motivation across our areas of expertise, which includes event catering, workplace cafés and restaurants, corporate fine dining and hospitality, visitor attraction catering, pupil and staff feeding at state and independent schools, university cafés and restaurants, hospital staff and visitor restaurants, hospices, Livery Hall catering, venue sales, event management and production, and reception and concierge services.
Our chefs, nutritionists and people pleasers constantly challenge themselves to push the boundaries and make food that goes further – in every respect. Their thoughtful, mindful approach to sourcing, preparing and presenting food promotes positive changes in consumption that will make a meaningful, measurable impact to people of all ages and from all walks of life. And, investment in people and technology ensures every experience delivered is simple, smart and stirring.
CH&Co holds a Royal Warrant for catering services to HM The Queen.

OpenTable is the world's leading provider of online restaurant reservations, seating more than 28 million diners per month via online bookings across more than 51,000 restaurants.

For restaurants, OpenTable hospitality solutions enable them to manage their reservation book, streamline their operations, enhance their service levels and deliver personalised hospitality.

The OpenTable website and mobile apps enable diners to see which restaurants have available tables, select a restaurant based on verified diner reviews, menus and other helpful information, and easily make an instantly confirmed booking. OpenTable also powers online reservations for nearly 600 partners: Amazon Alexa, Facebook Messenger, Google, Instagram, TripAdvisor and many more. Since its inception in 1998, OpenTable has seated more than 1.9 billion diners around the world.

OpenTable is proud to be sponsoring the award for Independent Restaurateur of the Year. OpenTable partners with thousands of small business owners across the globe to help them drive success.

With a history dating back to 1783, Schweppes is a much loved brand which is instantly recognisable to consumers, and is a good choice for operators looking to make the most of the growing popularity of mixers. It is more than 225 years since Swiss watchmaker and ‘creator of bubbles’ Jacob Schweppe arrived in London with his Schweppes drink, having pioneered carbonated drinks when he invented an industrial process to capture bubbles in liquid. Last year, Schweppes unveiled its biggest ever brand investment, which included the launch of a range of naturally flavoured premium mixers called 1783. Schweppes 1783 includes Crisp Tonic Water, Light Tonic Water, Quenching Cucumber Tonic Water and Salty Lemon Tonic Water and are delicious pairings for premium spirits, delivering a great tasting natural flavour for cocktails and mixed drinks.

The Chemours Company is a global leader in fluoroproducts, titanium technologies and chemical solutions, providing its customers in a wide range of industries with market-defining products, application expertise and chemistry-based innovations.

Chemours ingredients are found in plastics and coatings, refrigeration and air conditioning, mining and oil refining operations and general industrial manufacturing. Flagship products include prominent brands such as Teflon™, Ti-Pure™, Krytox™, Viton™ and Opteon™.

Chemours has about 8,000 employees across 37 manufacturing sites,serving more than 5,000 customers in North America, Latin America, Asia-Pacific and Europe. Chemours is headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware USA.

Unilever Food Solutions (UFS) is an industry leader in providing innovative, high-quality professional food ingredients and value-adding services to 75 markets worldwide.

We are a business built by Chefs, so we know what you face every day in the kitchen. Everything we do is focused on making your life a little easier. We aim to inspire you, train you and provide you with the best product solutions.

Our global network of food service professionals help source the best sustainable ingredients, develop quality products, create inspiring and on-trend recipes, and provide chef training and support.

We’re proud to support a host of initiatives right across the foodservice industry. This includes #FairKitchens: an inclusive industry-wide movement co-founded by UFS that aims to better the lives of foodservice operators around the world. The aim is to open a conversation around the unhealthy working conditions of our industry and call for change, because a healthier culture makes for a healthier business. #FairKitchens is also a partner of industry charity Hospitality Action, who offer vital assistance to all who work, or have worked, within hospitality in the UK.

Find out more at ufs.com.

Zenith Hygiene and Diversey are on a journey to create the UK and Ireland’s largest manufacturer and supplier of cleaning and hygiene products. Diversey and Zenith believe strongly, that cleaning and hygiene are life essentials.

Collectively, we have over 115 years of expertise and knowledge and operate with our customers’ needs at the heart of everything we do. Safeguarding our customers’ businesses, contributing to productivity improvements, lowering total operating costs and brand protection. Our journey together has just started but working as one, we will continue to protect and care for people everyday by pioneering future focused cleaning and hygiene technologies.

Let’s live.