About Churchill Catering Services

Churchill Catering was launched by Tony Nicholl ten years ago with the acquisition of some Shopping Centre Restaurants and some leisure-related Food Outlets. Contract catering services was a natural progression and we opened our first unit seven years ago.

From the outset, our mission has been to focus all that we do on the "Food on the Plate", on the basis that if we get that right, all else follows. Today, we have outlets from Durham to Devon and have never lost a contract by offering poor service or poor value.

Our Key People are:

Tony Nicholl - Managing Director

Tony trained with Grand Metropolitan Catering where he became a Director and went on to become Managing Director of one of Europe's leading catering groups, SAS Service Partner, who had extensive Contract Catering, Airport Catering and Commercial Catering business in the UK and throughout Europe.

Sharon Nicholl - General Manager

Sharon trained at the Intercontinental Hotel on Park Lane where she was Food and Beverage Manager. She went on to become Group Catering Manager for Merrill Lynch in London, General Manager of the Institute of Directors in Pall Mall and Catering Services Manager for Microsoft in Sydney.

Stuart Nicholl - Senior Operations Manager

Stuart trained with Compass Group and became General Manager of the Old Bailey, Group Manager Brian Smith Catering and joined the Duke of Westminster as Food Services Manager for a number of catering activities.

Wendy Frost - Senior Operations Manager

Wendy joined us five years ago from Sodexho and is a Group Manager for our Ports, Co-operative societies & Constabulary.

Phillip Miller - Operations Manager

Last year we purchased Sporting Links, a company specialising in the management of Leisure Venues, Conferencing and Commercial Catering at places such as Dorking Halls.

Liz Nicholl

Liz is our Financial Director, who with our centre based office team manages the Administrative and Human Resource requirements of the company.

Nicky Calver

Nicky has been with the company for seven years and manages our day-to-day relief and resource requirements.

Duty Manager

24 hours a day, 7 days a week our Duty Manager provides valuable access in the event of out-of-hours issues, emergencies and staff absenteeism. All our employees are issued with the duty telephone number and if they are sick or have other problems which may affect work attendance, they are able to inform us immediately.

All of our key people are 'hands-on' to provide on the job training and support New Menu launches and New Business Openings where it matters - in the Kitchen and on the Servery.

For matters of Health & Safety and Human Resource support, we employ NorthgateArinso who ensure our Contracts of Employment, Staff Handbooks, Unit Operations Manuals, Discipline and Grievance Procedure and Health & Safety meet with statutory requirements.