Jubilee Recruitment

What Jubilee Recruitment does

Jubilee Personnel Services Limited, trading as Jubilee Talent, Jubilee Hospitality and Jubilee Recruitment, is a UK-based hospitality and chef recruitment agency founded in 2003 by Nicholas Taylor. The company connects qualified chefs and hospitality professionals with employers requiring permanent or temporary kitchen staff, operating from nine regional offices across Birmingham, London, Gloucester, Manchester, Oxford, Stafford, Reading and Bristol. Service lines include permanent placement (transaction-fee revenue on successful hires and subsequent transfer fees), temporary/agency worker staffing (usage-based revenue on hours billed to clients), and a 24/7 Nationwide Chef Cover service for emergency short-notice deployment. Customer segments span restaurants, hotels, pubs and clubs, education catering, healthcare/care catering, corporate catering and large-scale event operators including Premier League Football Stadia, international motor racing events and UK festivals.

The company has no proprietary technology platform; its core assets are consultant relationships, a multi-branch UK footprint, and a candidate database. Around the recruitment core, Jubilee has built three supporting digital properties: The Pantry, a training and career-resources platform offering hospitality compliance courses (GDPR, First Aid, Fire Safety, Food Hygiene, Food Allergens, COSHH, Safeguarding, Manual Handling); The Pass, a content portal publishing chef job listings and industry news; and digital workflow tooling including an online candidate registration portal, online application form and timesheet management system. The Pantry sub-brand operates as a candidate-engagement ecosystem rather than a standalone commercial product line.

Go-to-market is sales-led and relationship-driven: dedicated consultants in each regional office serve as the primary commercial interface, supported by a multi-channel marketing presence across LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter/X, plus SEO content via The Pass. Pricing is not publicly disclosed; rates are set per Assignment Details Form, which is standard for the UK temp-staffing sector. Jubilee is privately held, founder-owned, and bootstrapped, with no disclosed institutional funding, parent company, M&A activity, or leadership changes.

Name

Jubilee Recruitment

Legal name

Jubilee Personnel Services Limited

Website

https://jubileetalent.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2003

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Jubilee Recruitment is a UK-based, founder-owned hospitality and chef recruitment agency operating from nine regional offices, supplying permanent and temporary kitchen staff to restaurants, hotels, event operators, education, healthcare and corporate catering clients across England.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Hospitality Staffing Services

NAICS

Employment Placement Agencies (561311)

SIC

Services-Employment Agencies (7361)

akta.pro primary industry

Hospitality, Travel & Events Direct Hire (BPACAFAL)

Keywords

• Hospitality recruitment
• Chef staffing agency
• Temporary hospitality staff
• Permanent chef placement
• UK catering recruitment

Headquarters

HQ city

Birmingham

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices9 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Permanent Placement Services: The company acts as an employment business (as defined by Section 13(3) of the Employment Agencies Act 1973) introducing or supplying agency workers to hirers for permanent or temporary engagements. Revenue is generated through placement fees when candidates are successfully placed with clients, and transfer fees when hirers engage workers directly within the Relevant Period.
2. Temporary/Agency Worker Staffing: Supply of agency workers to clients on a temporary basis, with the Employment Business paying workers for hours worked and charging clients accordingly. The Terms reference Actual Rate of Pay and Actual QP Rate of Pay structures.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

Jubilee Recruitment is a UK-based chef and hospitality recruitment agency that supplies qualified chefs and hospitality professionals to employers on both a permanent placement and temporary/agency worker basis. The agency operates across 9 UK regional offices and additionally offers emergency short-notice chef cover, candidate training courses through The Pantry, and a hospitality industry news portal called The Pass. Its services target restaurants, hotels, pubs, clubs, schools, care homes, corporate caterers, and major event operators.

Product overview

Jubilee Recruitment operates as a chef and hospitality recruitment agency providing staffing solutions across multiple UK locations. The core offering consists of matching qualified chefs and hospitality professionals with employers. Supporting the core recruitment service, The Pantry delivers mandatory training courses for the hospitality sector, and Nationwide Chef Cover provides emergency staffing support. The company also offers candidate registration, timesheet management, and an industry news portal called The Pass.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• The Pantry: Career tools, resources, and training courses for candidates including GDPR, First Aid, Fire Safety, Food Hygiene, and other workplace safety certifications.

Products and services

• Chef & Hospitality Recruitment Services Core staffing service connecting qualified chefs and hospitality professionals (Executive Head Chefs, Sous Chefs, Pastry Chefs, Chef de Parties, Commis Chefs, CRB-checked Cooks) with UK employers on both a permanent placement and temporary/agency worker basis. Operations span 9 UK offices including Birmingham, London, Gloucester, Manchester, Oxford, Stafford, Reading, and Bristol.
• Nationwide Chef Cover 24/7 emergency short-notice chef staffing service providing experienced professional chefs for urgent hospitality needs across the UK, available through a dedicated nationwide hotline.
• The Pantry Training Courses Training and career resources platform offering hospitality-sector courses including GDPR, First Aid, Fire Safety, Infection Prevention & Control, Safeguarding Adults at Risk, Basic Food Hygiene, Food Hygiene Level 3, Manual Handling, Health & Safety, Food Allergens, and COSHH.

Named customers6 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Blue Arrow: Established UK staffing provider with hospitality and catering as core verticals, supplying both temporary and permanent staff — a scaled competitor in the same end-markets.
• Chef Results: UK-based chef recruitment specialist placing executive and brigade chefs into hospitality operators; a direct competitor for the same candidate pool Jubilee serves.
• HRC Recruitment: Hospitality-focused UK recruitment firm providing permanent and temporary chef and hotel staff, operating in overlapping verticals (hotels, restaurants, catering) with a similar relationship-led model.
• Berkeley Scott: UK specialist hospitality and catering recruitment agency, directly competing with Jubilee in chef and hospitality placements across similar UK geographies and client segments.
• Search Consultancy: Multi-vertical UK recruiter with a dedicated hospitality and catering division offering permanent and temporary staffing; overlaps with Jubilee on restaurant, hotel, and event catering clients.

Broad incumbents

• Caterer.com: Long-standing UK hospitality job board and recruitment platform; not a direct agency competitor but a broad incumbent in hospitality hiring that could substitute for Jubilee's candidate-sourcing role.
• Reed: Large UK generalist recruitment agency with a hospitality and catering desk; competes indirectly for the same client base and could win share on permanent placements with broader reach.
• Adecco UK: Global staffing leader with significant UK hospitality and catering presence; provides temporary and permanent staffing at scale and competes for Jubilee's enterprise clients.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/jubilee4staff
• Facebookfacebook.com/jubileerecruitment
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/jubilee-hospitality
• Instagraminstagram.com/jubileehospitality

Compliance1 record

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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