Curated Networking. Real Influence. Meaningful Connections.

Expanding Our Industry Networking Programme

The Staff Canteen Live is our flagship programme of invite-only networking lunches, designed to connect senior hospitality professionals with carefully selected industry partners in a focused, high-value environment.

Each event brings together influential decision-makers with genuine buying power, hosted in outstanding restaurants across the UK. The format is deliberately intimate, commercially relevant, and built around great food, wine, and conversation.

What are The Staff Canteen networking events?

The Staff Canteen networking lunches connect handpicked hospitality professionals from across the UK with leading industry partners.

Hosted over a curated multi-course lunch, these events are designed to encourage meaningful conversations, relationship-building, and long-term commercial partnerships. Attendees are selected for their seniority, influence, and purchasing responsibility, ensuring sponsors gain valuable face-time with the right people.

What are the chef networking lunches?

Our chef networking lunches are monthly, invite-only events bringing together 15 highly influential chefs from across all types of hospitality operations, including independent restaurants, restaurant groups, hotels, and destination dining venues.

Hosted in some of the country’s most respected restaurants, each lunch offers a relaxed but exclusive setting where chefs can connect with peers, exchange insights, and engage directly with six carefully chosen sponsors. The experience is centred around a bespoke multi-course menu created by the host venue, with paired wines.

What are the front of house networking lunches?

The front of house networking lunches are quarterly events focused on senior operational leaders, including restaurant managers, general managers, and heads of service from leading restaurants and hotels.

These lunches create a dedicated space for front-of-house professionals to share operational insight, discuss industry challenges, and build relationships with peers and sponsors who support service, staffing, and guest experience.

What are the sommelier networking lunches?

The sommelier networking lunches are intimate, invite-only events bringing together 12 of the UK's leading sommeliers.

Each lunch is carefully structured around sponsored wine pairings, creating an authentic and commercially relevant setting for discussion, tasting, and relationship-building. The format encourages open dialogue between sommeliers and partners while celebrating excellence in wine, service, and hospitality.