Holroyd Howe - Reading

Sandra D.

The company has great values and working towards great goals.
Not everyone are happy about working there, however excellent leaders in the industry.
We all not perfect, however was glad to learn a lot about mental health support company working towards of achieving.
Thank you for beautiful three years and thank you for every valuable lesson I learned.

Mahtab S.

I wish I could give it 0 stars, but I can't. This company caters my school and it is just inedible. The food is cold, bland, unappetising and often mouldy or stale. The food nearly always contains hairs or other non-edible items in it. The staff never make fresh food, it is always from the week before. The bread is stale and rock hard. All the desserts appears to be made at least 3 weeks in advance and you can taste staleness. The fruits are bruised and have no flavour. The portion sizes are so small and you can't even ask for more because they always run out of food. They hardly put in any effort for the meat options and even less effort for the veggie options. They deep fry any leftover vegetables that they have, with no sense of what they are cooking, and call it 'tempura'. 9 times out of 10 I am eating deep fried batter with mystery substances inside. And it's not like it's getting any better. This company has been catering for over 3 years and the quality is getting worse day by day. Worst catering service ever.

Ashmit V.

Serving sizes are completely unacceptable at Goodenough College. Numerous requests have fallen on deaf ears. Members often visit the grocery store or nearby restaurants directly after a catered meal because the amount of food served is inadequate. Many have started relying entirely on restaurants or their own cooking.

EDIT: adding a second photo that was taken after Holroyd Howe’s reply. Clearly, no action has been taken.

Arthur P.

Honestly, If I could give their food a zero stars I would. The food not only looks awful, but it tastes awful too. My Christmas Dinner was a shambles. On most days, my lunch is the leftovers that didn't get used or were scraped into the bin from the dinner the night before. One time I legit found a maggot in my sweetcorn which is Holroyd Howe in a nutshell to be honest. Another time they thought it would be a good idea to add straw to their curry.
Keep your distance guys 🙂

geetad100

How is this company still serving dogs dinners after all of the feedback? My son had chicken curry which looks like water and some kind of meat! We pay good money for this? You should be ashamed! Would you feed it to your kids? I think not! I’d give it a zero if I could and I’ll be taking this further !

Ben C.

Fantastic company, cooking restaurant standard food to pupils all over the country.

Jigs B.

Staff are lovely but the food tastes like its gone threw someone. Please stop serving food from the previous month. Thank you.

Lucy C.

My child 8 year old, attends Elstree school (private prep school) and is forced to eat this disgusting food. The food quality is not fit to feed an animal. The meat is impossible to identify (and of the lowest grade possible, filled with antibiotics), the majority served is high processed, high white sugar food which is stuck in a time warp. I have tried and failed to get the school to change their caterers, however the school just tells me how wonderful this catering company is and that their 'nutritionist' guides the school perfectly. Based on the mass volume of other 1 star reviews I can see that I am clearly not the only one. They refuse to provide vegetarian protein alternatives (citing that as it's a nut free school the caterers cannot make high protein vegetarian food) so instead feed the vegetarian children either no protein, or a heavy carb alternative. They feed the children chocolate, sweets, biscuits, jelly, high inflammatory, margarine filled puddings every day and to a high volume. Thinking this is acceptable for children to eat. I find it disgusting that this type of company exists and helps poison our children.