Unilever Food Solutions

Inspiration every day

We help chefs all over the world serve tasty, wholesome meals that keep guests coming back for more.

We create ingredients that save precious prep time in the kitchen, without compromising on flavour or flair.  And constantly provide ideas and inspiration that keep your menu fresh and exciting.

We know food service

We’ve been in food since the 1880s, and home to some of the world’s favourite brands: Knorr, Hellmann’s, Lipton and more. We work closely with businesses of all sizes, from independent restaurants through to hotels chains and contract caterers, in 74 countries.  So we understand that critical balance between impressing your guests and making a profit.

For chefs by chefs

As part of Unilever, we understand consumers, your guests.  We use this knowledge to help chefs and caterers keep up with people’s changing tastes. With our team of highly skilled chefs and nutritionists, we help our customers to find the right balance of great tasting and nutritious food served up to the same consistently high standards. Through our widespread presence we can make cuisine ideas travel.

Growing for the future

We always care about putting healthy and nutritious food on the table, but we also care about our impact on the earth. Using ingredients and packaging that are sustainably sourced, generate less waste and consume less energy is all part of our environmentally responsible way of doing business.

Food matters to us

That’s why you can trust us to help you satisfy your most discerning guests.

Our Services

Every working day in over seventy countries, there is a member of the Unilever Food Solutions team working together with chefs and operators to make their business more successful.

These close relationships really help us to understand the issues you are currently facing. For example, how do you meet your guests’ demands for great quality, choice and value while costs are increasing, and you might have less staff in your kitchen?

Your Guests, Your Menu and Your Kitchen are services to help you tackle such challenges.

With these services we want to inspire you with ideas for appealing and successful menus that are efficient, profitable and, importantly, keep your guests coming back for more.

Innovations

Knorr Total Soup Solutions systems enable caterers to capitalise on the growing popularity of soup by making soups available, visible and attractive to consumers. The Knorr 100% Soup bar offers a choice of new and traditional soups created by Knorr chefs, together with complementary toppings to customise their soup.

Lipton Brewed Iced Tea is a tea preparation and dispensing system that provides foodservice operators with the ability to serve high-quality, fresh-brewed tea with ease.

A great range of lower-fat, great-tasting Hellmann's dressings, available through specialised Hellmann's dispensers, is helping a major fast-food chain to provide a healthy salad bar option in a growing number of outlets in North and Latin America.

In Belgium, our 'Good For You' range offers healthy, balanced recipes for lunch meals and sandwiches, with information materials to highlight the benefits. It's now used in around 100 industrial kitchens.

Key facts & figures

The global food-service industry is worth over €350 bn and is growing rapidly as people around the world eat out more than ever before. In the US, more than half of food expenditure now happens outside the home. In Europe, this figure is as high as one third and, in Hong Kong, 2.5 meals out of every three are eaten away from home.

Global presence

Unilever Foodsolutions operates in 65 countries worldwide