What Caterer.com does

Caterer.com (legally The Stepstone Group UK Ltd) is a UK-focused, hospitality-specialist online recruitment platform founded in 2004 and operating as a subsidiary of The Stepstone Group. It connects hospitality employers — including hotels, restaurants, pubs, bars, and catering companies — with job seekers across roles ranging from chefs and front-of-house staff to management, sales, and corporate hospitality positions. The platform lists 10,277 active jobs from 1,514+ hiring companies at the time of input, and serves as both a transactional job marketplace and a content hub for the UK hospitality sector.

The underlying platform architecture centers on a job board with a searchable CV database, a Candidate Management System providing ATS-style functionality (shortlisting, interview scheduling, dashboards), Boolean Search for refined candidate discovery, and a mobile application distributed via QR code. Add-on modules include the Cammio-powered Video Recruiting tool for asynchronous candidate interviews, Equality Boost and Equality Badge products for diversity and inclusion hiring, and an AI-driven 'Recommended Features' engine that suggests job ad enhancements. Content products include the Recruiting in Hospitality Podcast and the quarterly Hospitality Hiring Insider research reports, which provide salary benchmarks and hiring trend data.

Caterer.com's revenue model is multi-stream: transactional job advertising (starting at £49 per posting), subscription-based CV database access for recruiters, and featured/premium listing products for enhanced visibility. Go-to-market combines self-serve web and mobile channels for SMB and individual employers with direct account management for enterprise hospitality clients. Strategic partnerships with Choose Hospitality, Youth Employment UK, Springboard UK, and the Centre for Ageing Better extend the platform's talent pipeline beyond traditional hospitality recruitment into entry-level and over-50 worker segments.

Name

Caterer.com

Legal name

The Stepstone Group UK Ltd

Website

https://caterer.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2004

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Caterer.com is a UK hospitality-specialist online recruitment platform connecting hospitality employers (hotels, restaurants, pubs, bars, catering) with job seekers via a job board, CV database, ATS tools, and employer branding products. It is a subsidiary of The Stepstone Group.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Online Recruitment / Job Board

NAICS

Employment Placement Agencies (561311)

SIC

Services-Employment Agencies (7361)

akta.pro primary industry

Catering Coordination & Bar Service Management (Non-restaurant) (HSACAAAH)

Keywords

• Hospitality job board
• Online recruitment platform
• Cv database access
• Candidate management system
• Hospitality hiring tools

Headquarters

HQ city

London

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Job Advertising: Revenue generated from hospitality employers purchasing job postings to advertise vacancies on the platform. Pricing starts from £49 for standard job ads with premium options available.
2. CV Database Access: Recruiters can pay to access and search the candidate CV database for passive candidate sourcing
3. Featured/Premium Job Listings: Enhanced visibility products for employers wanting to highlight their job openings prominently on the platform

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Caterer.com operates a dedicated online job board marketplace for the UK hospitality sector, connecting employers (hotels, restaurants, pubs, bars, and catering companies) with job seekers through job postings, a searchable CV database, and an integrated candidate management system. Employers pay to advertise vacancies starting at £49 per post and can subscribe to recruiter tools, while candidates use the platform and mobile app to search and apply for hospitality roles free of charge.

Product overview

Caterer.com operates as a hospitality-specific job marketplace with a modular platform architecture. The core product is the Caterer.com Job Board, which powers job advertising and candidate search functionality. This core platform integrates with dedicated tools including the CV Database for passive candidate sourcing, the Candidate Management System for applicant tracking, and Boolean Search for refined candidate discovery. The platform offers add-on modules including Video Recruiting (powered by Cammio) for asynchronous video assessments, Equality Boost for diversity hiring initiatives, and Recommended Features for job ad optimization. Supporting content products include the Recruiting in Hospitality Podcast and Hospitality Hiring Insider research reports. Pricing starts at £49 for job postings.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Hospitality Hiring Insider: Research publication providing hospitality hiring trends, salary benchmarks, and industry insights
• Caterer.com People Awards
• Recruiting in Hospitality Podcast
• Equality Boost
• Equality Badge

Products and services

• Caterer.com Job Board
• Caterer.com Mobile App
• CV Database
• Candidate Management System
• Video Recruiting (Cammio)
• Equality Boost

Quantifiable outcome

• Over 130,000 workers over 50 are working in hospitality sector to boost pension savings (Caterer.com research)
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers7 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature5 records

Partnerships

Six partnerships are on record, tiered minor and core.

• PeopleBankminorGTM or Marketing Partner · 1 January 2019PeopleBank sponsors the Candidate Experience Award category at the Caterer.com People Awards. They work with many hospitality sector clients and value their partnership with Caterer.com as an organization that contributes to the hospitality industry.
• Choose HospitalitycoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerChoose Hospitality is an initiative driven by the hospitality industry itself, created by Chef & Restaurant Magazine with support from Gordon Ramsay, Tom Kerridge, and James Martin. The partnership aims to stimulate interest in the wide-ranging benefits of a career in hospitality by bridging communication gaps to those training for a sector career, encouraging school leavers and job-swappers to consider the profession.
• Youth Employment UKcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership with Youth Employment UK to provide school leavers with inspiring advice and information through a series of videos showcasing hospitality people telling their story, as part of efforts to tackle perception challenges across the sector.
• Springboard UKcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerSpringboard UK is a charity providing advice, training, and skills courses for those at the start of their hospitality career. The Springboard Ambassador Programme promotes hospitality as a great place to work by inspiring the next generation of hospitality professionals.
• Centre for Ageing BetterminorGTM or Marketing PartnerPartnership focused on age-inclusive hiring research and recommendations for hospitality employers, supporting the recruitment of workers over 50 into the sector.
• The Stepstone GroupcoreOthersParent company of Caterer.com. The Stepstone Group UK Ltd is the legal entity operating the Caterer.com platform and is part of a larger job board ecosystem.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Stepstone: Stepstone is the parent group's main European job board platform, operating across multiple countries and verticals. It is a broader incumbent within the same corporate family, offering overlapping functionality at significantly larger scale.
• Indeed: Indeed is the largest global generalist job board, offering free hospitality job postings at massive scale. It competes with Caterer.com for the same employer spend but without vertical specialization or premium CV database tooling.
• Reed: Reed is a long-established UK generalist job board and recruitment services provider with significant hospitality coverage. It is a broader incumbent that overlaps Caterer.com's employer base without specializing in hospitality.
• LinkedIn: LinkedIn has become a major channel for hospitality recruitment, particularly for managerial and corporate hospitality roles, leveraging its professional network rather than a dedicated hospitality vertical. It is a broader incumbent encroaching on Caterer.com's mid-market segment.

Direct peers

• CV-Library: CV-Library is a UK-based job board and CV database platform covering multiple sectors including hospitality. Its combined job posting and searchable CV database model closely parallels Caterer.com's monetization stack.
• Totaljobs: Totaljobs is a sister platform under the same Stepstone Group parent, operating a broader UK generalist job board that includes hospitality roles. It competes directly with Caterer.com for the same UK hospitality employer recruitment budgets.
• Culinary Agents: Culinary Agents is a hospitality and culinary recruitment marketplace connecting chefs, servers and hospitality professionals with restaurants and hotels. Its specialized job board and candidate-matching focus mirrors Caterer.com's core offering.
• Hcareers: Hcareers is one of the largest hospitality-focused job boards in North America, serving hotels, restaurants and foodservice employers with a similar two-sided marketplace model to Caterer.com. It is a clear vertical-specialist benchmark.
• Hosco: Hosco is a hospitality-specific online job marketplace connecting hotels, restaurants and hospitality employers with candidates globally. It competes head-on with Caterer.com in the same vertical with a similar two-sided job board model.
• eHotelier: eHotelier operates a hospitality careers portal and industry news platform serving hotels and hospitality employers worldwide. Its dedicated job board and content-led approach make it a close functional and vertical analog to Caterer.com.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks1 record

Key highlights1 record

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/Catererdotcom
• Facebookfacebook.com/Catererdotcom
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/catererdotcom
• Instagraminstagram.com/catererdotcom

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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