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Cooking & Dining
From high-street style restaurants to casual coffee bars and takeaways, we’re fuelling the military.
Contact our teamOur defence catering, retail and leisure facilities serve the needs of the Whole Force, with years of consumer insight.
We create award-winning social spaces, develop tasty globally-influenced menus, and recruit and train highly-skilled, passionate people to deliver best-in-class military dining.
Cooking & Dining
Shopping & Retail
Messing Provision
Convenience & Grab & Go
With affordably priced meal deals and promotions complementing well-balanced, consistently sized portions, we offer great value-for-money across our Defence sites.
Just like our ingredients, our menus are fresh, delivering balanced, tasty food - served as healthy options or indulgent favourites for personnel who require a strong diet for work.
Our menu options and labelling are easy to understand, and our restaurant design and speed of delivery help to ease decision-making and reduce queues.
Our friendly team and service style provide a warm, relaxing and welcoming dining experience, re-fuelling personnel for their next task.
Mindful Active
Modern Flavours
Technology Enablement
We’ve worked closely with the Army EATS initiative to understand and cater for the needs of today’s – and tomorrow’s – personnel.
In 2022 we launched two new pilot sites – find out more about Army EATS and Sodexo’s approach in this short film.
Nostalgic Comfort
Global Bowls
Plant Powered
Grab & Go
Sodexo is bringing the best of high-street style dining to the military with our approach to the future of military dining.
As part of the pioneering Army EATS programme, ‘Junior Ranks Dining by Kitchen Works Co.’ is a fresh take on messing, offering seasonal, global meals and grab-and-go options.
Physical and mental health is an intrinsic part of personnel’s lived experience in the military, particularly body-conscious Generation Z.
With Mindful Active, we deliver helpful signposting and food labelling on-site and with an app to motivate personnel to focus on their health and wellbeing.
Designed to create connections, build community, and foster morale, Village is a multifunctional social hub that incorporates one stop catering, retail and leisure facilities and puts the wellbeing of service personnel at the heart of life on base.
7M meals served annually
We serve a staggering 7 million meals in our dining facilities across our British Armed Forces sites each year, equating to almost 25,000 meals every single day. They say ‘an army marches on its stomach’ – we say, let’s cook!
Food is more than fuel; it can have a significant impact on recruitment and retention, and is a vital building block of a healthy, capable force.
Healthy eating is especially important for active service personnel, who burn more calories and need to be more physically fit than the general population.
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