Yorkshire based Holmesterne Foods travelling first class

By Holmesterne Foods
schedule11th Oct 18

Proud Yorkshire manufacturer Holmesterne Foods confirms the supply of a range of ready meals to two UK Train Operators.

The initial contact came from Rail Gourmet which is a major supplier of meals to railway companies across Europe and beyond. Part of SSP – The Food Travel Experts – Rail Gourmet aims to bring new and innovative ideas to the rail industry to improve the customer experience.

Their initial brief was for the supply of ready meal pouches to East Midlands trains for consumption by their First Class diners. Two meals are now being supplied including a gluten free Beef Chilli and a Pork meatballs dish with pasta, both are made with British Red Tractor beef and pork. 

Interest was immediately shown by LNER and an agreement has been reached for the supply of four meals to feed the teams working on this operator’s trains. These include Mediterranean Vegetables with pasta, Chicken curry with rice, Sweet potato and lentil curry and Red Thai pork curry. Feedback has been excellent from all quarters.

Commenting for Holmesterne Keith Tindell, Manging Director said: “We have been investing in developing delicious and nutritious pouch meals for many years for a number and variety of customer outlets including food service, online and retailers of dietary products. Supplying to rail operators is a natural extension of our expertise in pouch meals, because they are very convenient they work really well on the trains as they don’t need to be kept chilled or frozen they just need to be heated up in the microwave.  We are excited by the prospect of extending this franchise into other train operators as well as adding new lines to the current menus”.