Food service

We hope these pages will help you understand what a gluten-free diet is and how you can cater for gluten-free customers.  Welcome!

A big opportunity

What to eat when you're away from home is perhaps the biggest challenge for someone with coeliac disease.  In every aspect of life, people eat and drink on the go and this trend is growing.  But it seems at the moment, in the food service sector, availability of gluten-free foods for customers with coeliac disease is not keeping pace with demand.

Amongst our members, the biggest issue is how to eat with confidence outside the home where you are no longer in control.  This may apply to schools, the workplace, hospitals, care homes, travelling or socialising.

Some organisations and individual chefs are doing great things for people with coeliac disease - ensuring that they get the same quality of service as other customers growing awareness.  But, we believe that there remains an opportunity for this market to grow as fast as it has done in the 'Free From' sector in major retailers.  We hope you'll agree and choose to work with us to make it happen.

Coeliac UK has recently been working with the Food Standards Agency on developing guidance to help establishments selling or providing non-prepacked food for sale.  We aim to increase awareness of the potential problems associated with food allergy and intolerance in the catering industry. To download this guidance, please click here.