Care home food, drink, advice and support to reduce your costs, make your life easier and maximise your residents’ quality of life
Saving you money
- 10% off all online purchases for your first 10 weeks, plus ongoing rewards*
- Personalised trade discounts that increase with spend
- Over 30% savings with Brakes own brand
- Monthly promotions across hundreds of core lines
Making your life easier
- Full 4-week and simplified 1-week menu cycles for care homes
- Themed care home food ideas with menus, recipes and activities
- FREE accredited nutritional training
- FREE guidance and tutorials on IDDSI and other dietary needs
The know-how you need
- Widest range in UK foodservice
- Over 60 years' experience as a care home food supplier
- In-house chefs, nutritionists and other care specialists
- Grocer Gold National Wholesaler of the Year 2025
FREE support to make care home catering easier
Meeting your residents’ individual, often complex needs is a constant challenge and a huge responsibility – especially when you’re also having to work within a tight daily budget. So as well as all your care home food and drink, we provide a whole range of menu and dishes ideas, recipes, training, allergen and nutritional advice and other resources. All the help you need when you’ve got a lot on your plate.
Menus made easy
FREE 4-week menu cycle, recipes, simplified menu cycle and product guides to meet your residents’ needs - and make your kitchen team’s lives easier.
Themed menus & events
Care home menus, themed menus, recipes, product guides and activities to help bring a smile to your residents' faces and boost everyone’s wellbeing.
Hungry for knowledge?
FREE nutritional training and IDDSI guidance to help your staff have the right skills and knowledge to meet residents’ needs, as required by the CQC
Experienced and expert food supplier for your care home
In 60 years as care home food supplier in the UK, we’ve never seen anything like the challenges you face today. We know food isn’t your biggest cost, but when every penny counts, any saving represents an important marginal gain, and means more in your budget for other business essentials. As a Brakes customer, you can save money every day – not just through lower prices, but also with products and formats designed to reduce wastage, prep time and labour costs.
How to save money
Utilise our rewards, offers, promotions, own-brand alternatives and trade discounts to help you cut your care home food costs. We also provide hints, tips and tricks to making the most of your supplies.
How to reduce waste
Products, formats and pack sizes to help you cut wastage without compromising on quality or flavour. Keeping your care home’s residents well-fed with less in the bin and more in your budget.
How to manage skill shortages
Simplified menu cycle, multi-portion meal solutions, and dish ideas suitable for all kitchen skill levels to ensure safe and consistent service when your care home is short of labour.
10% cashback for your first 10 weeks
Earn 10% cashback on everything you buy online in your first 10 weeks* and then receive ongoing offers to build your cashback balance.
You can then redeem as credit, donate to charity, or spend in the mybrakes rewards store.
Your essential guide to care home catering
Products, guidance, expert advice and support to help caterers in the care sector save money, manage skills shortages and reduce kitchen waste.
Includes details on product highlights, hints and tips across 14 different categories.
Factsheets
We’ve created a set of easy-to-read factsheets covering all the most important dietary and health conditions affecting care home residents.
- Dementia
- Diabetes
- Coeliac Disease
- Bone Health
- Plus many more!
Find out more
Fact sheets and nutritional support - Our nutritionist Ruth O’Sullivan offers a menu checking service for customers. Please email: nutrition@brake.co.uk and include your customer account number.
Other useful links
Allergen and nutritional support
Find links to the latest information and guidance you need to comply.
Award-winning food
Be confident in our products’ taste and quality alongside the reassurance of a safe, robust and reliable supply chain.
Accreditations & awards
With our product assurance, you can shop in full confidence with Brakes.
Sustainability at Brakes
We believe in acting today to protect tomorrow, underpinned by a set of robust goals.