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Helping education maintain high-performing, safe kitchens.

MCFT supports schools, colleges and universities with proactive maintenance for commercial kitchen and refrigeration equipment.

Whether you manage a single school, or large multi-site estate - MCFT’s proactive approach to maintenance, helps education sites reduce downtime, stay audit-ready, control asset costs throughout the academic year, via our own dedicated local engineers and complete lifecycle management of catering and refrigeration equipment.

Our dependable, local support tailored to the education sector, we help you keep your focus where it belongs - on students and their success.

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Trusted by education providers

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"Our team is so happy with the fact we log a call, and more than likely we have someone attending within 24 hours. The regular team that arrives for jobs, has been welcomed with open arms to the Charterhouse Catering family. It's good to be able to make a direct call for advice, and it is picked up and problem solved instantly.

The MCFT team need a round of applause and from all the work completed here. Thank you for making our lives easier and never letting us falter with our services, keeping the lights and gas on, so to speak."

- Director of Catering - Charterhouse (Holroyd Howe)

Keeping kitchens running around students, staff and term time.

In education, kitchen equipment needs to work around busy service windows, safeguarding requirements, term-time pressures and large estates.

Breakdowns can disrupt lunch service, events, boarding operations and student experience.

MCFT helps education teams plan ahead, reduce reactive issues and maintain safe, efficient kitchens.

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How MCFT supports your organisation.

  • Reduce avoidable downtime

    Proactive planned maintenance helps identify issues before they become urgent failures, protecting meal times and day-to-day operations.

  • Stay compliant and audit-ready

    Our IRIS portal provides clear service records, asset histories, PPM progress and maintenance evidence to support internal and external audits.

  • Controlled maintenance spend

    Clear and transparent digital records of asset performance, repair history and replacement priorities so you can make better decisions on repair versus replace.

  • One supplier, fewer headaches

    One trusted partner for catering and refrigeration maintenance, and equipment supply - backed by dedicated account management and clear escalation routes.

    Reducing supplier complexity and making maintenance easier to manage.

  • Improved visibility across sites

    IRIS, MCFT's customer portal - to manage assets, callouts, quotes, invoices, job progress and documentation in one place.

  • Local engineers, fast response

    Locally based, dependable technicians support faster attendance and stronger site familiarity.

  • Designed for complex estates

    We designed our customer portal IRIS to allow our customers to have full transparency on their account, assets and any work carried out.

    Where you can gain insights, raise callouts, view invoices, approve quotes, view status of jobs and more…

  • Maintenance built around term time

    We plan maintenance around your academic calendar, helping reduce disruption during key teaching and catering periods.

  • Compliance as standard

    Our SFG20-aligned approach provides clear evidence of completed works, supporting audit-ready maintenance.

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Total Education Support

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Primary & Secondary Education

For schools, kitchen equipment needs to work reliably around busy lunch periods, safeguarding requirements and term-time pressures. MCFT helps keep school kitchens safe, compliant and ready for service.

Key benefits:

  • Maintenance planned around term time

  • Local technicians and fast response

  • Compliance evidence and service records

  • Reduced disruption to lunch service

  • Clear communication with site teams

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Independent Schools

Independent schools often operate complex catering services across dining halls, boarding houses, events and hospitality spaces. MCFT supports these environments with planned maintenance, reactive support and dedicated account management.

Key benefits:

  • Support for boarding and events catering

  • Dedicated catering and refrigeration technicians

  • Clear asset and spend visibility

  • Easy quote approval and job tracking

  • Reduced pressure on estates teams

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Colleges & Universities

Large campuses need maintenance that can scale across multiple kitchens, buildings and users. MCFT helps colleges and universities manage assets, callouts, spend and service history in one place through IRIS.

Key benefits:

  • Multi-site and multi-campus asset management

  • IRIS access for multiple users

  • Estate-wide job tracking

  • Planned maintenance across catering and refrigeration assets

  • Clear reporting for facilities teams

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Your support network

Our network of locally based technicians are strategically positioned, allowing us to provide a local, fast, dependable and efficient service to our customers.

Our technicians are not only highly trained on all assets, but also familiar with the specific requirements and infrastructure of your site and region. Whether it’s planned maintenance or urgent support, they bring in-depth local knowledge and a local, personal touch to every job.

As a customer of MCFT, you will have a dedicated refrigeration/catering engineer allocated to your site, along with an account manager and key customer service contacts who will work closely with your site to understand the unique needs of your business.

Together, our local teams and centralised support help us deliver reliable service tailored to your business — to ensure your kitchen keeps on running, giving you peace of mind.

"Response times are very quick and engineers often fix on visit one. I also like the fact you see the same engineers 95% of the time, which makes dealing with them even easier.

The office support is excellent, and the online IRIS portal is also very good for logging jobs, asset registering and depreciation - it makes justifying replacement equipment a lot easier as you have its complete service history and breakdown report to hand. We have used MCFT for over 10 years and I would highly recommend them."

- King's College Wimbledon, Catering Manager