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Caterers

Your catering. Covered.

Whether you manage one school kitchen or hundreds, our catering tools help you cut waste, track allergies, and deliver nutritious meals efficiently—fuelling wellbeing and building trust with parents and schools alike.

Real-time data at your fingertips.

Our powerful meal management suite, gives you real-time visibility of menus, orders, allergens, and payments. Simplify planning, reduce waste, improve safety, and run more efficiently with accurate data and seamless workflows.

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Powerful data

Track performance, waste, and compliance centrally with a 360° view of operations and real-time cloud reporting—giving you rich insights across key performance indicators whenever and wherever you need them. 

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Smarter kitchen management

Control menus, nutrition, and allergens across multiple sites—cutting admin time and minimising food waste. 

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Instant messaging

Our group catering solution allows you to send payment alerts and reminders via email or SMS, helping parents stay on top of deadlines and reducing missed payments. 

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Automate workflows

Take the hassle out of managing school meals. Automated workflows handle ordering, production, and reporting—so your team can focus on serving great food, not paperwork. 

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Multi-device access

Make meal selection, admin, and tracking simple with an intuitive, user-friendly tablet-based solution. 

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Real-time updates

Update menus instantly across multiple sites or schools. 

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100% digital

Go paperless with streamlined meal planning, production, and reporting tools. 

6,000+ caterers

…love our tools.

"We recommend Cypad for their effective and well-managed solutions within the catering industry."

Aberdeen City Council

"ParentPay Group's BlueRunner product has helped the catering team manage orders efficiently, offering quick access to reporting. Students and staff now have a wide choice of meals on a single, easy to use platform."

Catering Manager

New Hall

"With Cypad, the children choose what they fancy on the whiteboard. Now, we don’t have any children who can’t have their first choice of meal."

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Chadsmead Primary Academy

"With BlueRunner, the student recognition is very efficient, and the reporting tools are game changers for anyone needing detailed insights."

Karen Elsom

Laurel Park school

"It's such an efficient product that saves so much time. School lunches are managed in five to ten minutes compared to the hour of administrative time they previously took."

Hunwick Primary School

"ParentPay Group's BlueRunner product has helped the catering team manage orders efficiently, offering quick access to reporting. Students and staff now have a wide choice of meals on a single, easy to use platform."

Catering Manager

New Hall

"ParentPay and Cypad are all user-friendly, well-supported, and highly adaptable to our needs. They operate swiftly and smoothly without any hassle and are well integrated with each other."

John Landragon

Aberdeen City Council

"Implementing ParentPay Group's BlueRunner product was easy—our team adopted it quickly which has helped improve overall efficiency and increased engagement with our students."

Operations Manager

Eltham College

"I would 100% recommend Cypad because it's got such scope and depth to it and there is a constant sense of development and introducing something new."

Philippa Terry

Juniper Ventures Ltd

Built by experts. For experts.

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Catering management

Digitise every part of your catering operation—from meal planning and production to payments and reporting. Our cloud-based suite helps deliver best-in-class pupil safeguarding, boost meal uptake, and drive revenue.

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Management information system

Cypad connects with SIMS, ParentPay, and Schoolcomms to cut manual data entry and save time. For other MIS platforms, ParentPay manages the link, giving Cypad the data it needs to streamline attendance, dietary requirements, and billing—reducing errors and easing workloads for catering and admin teams.

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Parental and student engagement

Take the hassle out of meal ordering—parents can order and pay in advance online or via the app. Digital reminders ensure kitchen teams have all the information they need before service begins. 

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Payments

Simplify complex payment processes for bookings and suppliers. Our secure tools help you save time, control costs, and adapt to changing regulations. 

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Finance

Helping caterers manage payments smoothly, track cash flow in real time, and access instant reports to support leadership. 

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Data security and compliance

Stay protected with encrypted messaging, secure access, and GDPR-compliant data handling across all users and systems.

Free report

Download your free copy of the 2025 National School Meals Report

What parents really think. Insights from 236,000+ families across the UK, on the subjects that matter most—meal uptake, free school meals, allergens, school meals vs packed lunches, with expert commentary from LACA, The Natasha Allergy Research Foundation, and Juniper Ventures.

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