An entrepreneur who hires school kitchens to prepare takeaways from has said he will expand the business after the arrangement proved a success.
He takes over the catering facilities outside of school hours and has plans to use a second school in the city as well as locations in Harrogate, Leeds and Sheffield. Staff are paid a living wage, with no-one on zero-hours contracts and all deliveries are done themselves, Mr Nicholson said.School Kitchen also had an educational arm, teaching children more about cooking and food. Any profits go towards funding breakfast clubs.Mr Nicholson had the idea before the pandemic because he had noticed more and more "ghost" or "dark kitchens".
“I wanted to do something like that, but in a way that would have a positive impact on the community, so I came up with the idea of School Kitchen.”