Frequently Asked Questions

The Team at No Middleman supply 7 ranges of branded retail meals, some 80 individual lines / SKU’s, in a number of award-winning ranges. In addition, we have Ireland's most unique range of food service multi-portion meals solutions for IPAS/Immigrations, deli counters, coffee shops, staff catering, and event companies. All the items are made to order in Cork and distributed around Ireland as required, or they can be collected. Just Contact No Middleman for more details.

The Team at No Middleman offer the ranges in both chilled and frozen formats. Chilled typically would have 8 days plus shelf life on delivery and frozen 365 days shelf life. Meals are packed in 400gm to 5kg packs depending on the range. Just contact No Middleman for more details.

The Team at No Middleman MOQ is not set in stone. Meals can be collected at our office or delivery zones and costs are available on the delivery map section of our website. From production, MOQ is 6 to 12 units in retail and food service 5kg (2 x 2.5kg). Just contact No Middleman for more details.

The Team at No Middleman typical lead time is Day 1 for Day 3, but this depends on whether the products are collected, delivered via No Middleman’s own vans, or sent with a courier. Just drop us a line for more details. Just contact No Middleman for more details.

The Team at No Middleman are delighted to confirm that they not only deliver within the island or Ireland – North and South – but also mainland UK as well as the EU. Depending on the area, meals can be sent chilled or frozen via couriers or our own vans as well as local collections. Just contact No Middleman for more details.

The Team at No Middleman are very keen to develop relationships with multi-site operators. We can arrange separate cost centre accounts, tailor ranges for separate locations and make separate deliveries to each location. So if you are a multi-site caterer or retailer we are keen to talk to you. Just contact No Middleman for more details.

The Team at No Middleman do offer competitive pricing on ongoing consistent volume orders. This pricing does depend on a number of factors such as volume, frequency range as well as delivery location and whether they are standard ranges or private label. Just contact No Middleman for more details.

The Team at No Middleman are delighted to confirm, yes, we do offer a private label, white label, and own label facility. This is in the areas of soup, meals, side dishes, and salads. You work with our experienced team of chefs and come up with the range for your retail, butcher or catering business. Just contact No Middleman for more details.

The Team at No Middleman offer a wide range of chilled and frozen premium meal solutions for retailers, coffee shops, butchers, and staff catering as well as vending companies. Our retail individual portions are also suitable for schools catering as well as IPAS or Immigration facilities. Like our retail ranges, we have a range of food service multi-pack portions in meals, soups, side dishes, salads, and tray meals from 2.5kg to 5kg, again in chilled and frozen formats. Just contact No Middleman for more details.

The Team at No Middleman meals differ in shelf life depending on whether the meal solutions are frozen or chilled. Frozen meals, soups, and side dishes typically have 365 days shelf life. Our retail ranges typically have: Meals (12 days), Soups (14 days), Side dishes (between 8 and 12 days depending on the item). Rice side dishes typically have a shorter shelf life of 8 days. Just contact No Middleman for more details.

The Team at No Middleman provide full allergen and nutritional information for all packs, as well as heating and storage instructions. For any health claims such as low salt or high protein, these are backed up with lab results from a 3rd party supporting our claims. Just contact No Middleman for more details.

The Team at No Middleman are registered with Cork County Council and have monthly inspections from the Department of Agriculture in Ireland. In addition, we hold AA grade BRC certification and have held BRC certification for many years. As well as this we facilitate 3rd party audits from other retailers and private label auditors. Just contact No Middleman for more details.

The Team at No Middleman are unique in Ireland and the UK in that we are the only known company that offers 3rd party certified halal meals in retail and food service formats (www.thehalalfoodco.co.uk). In addition, our vegan Food Adventures brand meals have been certified by the UK Vegan Society (www.foodaventures.ie). We also offer a wide range of vegetarian meals and some soft diet meals for meals on wheels organisations. While a lot of our meals are gluten-free, we do not declare this due to cost issues in certifying every individual batch. Just contact No Middleman for more details.

The Team at No Middleman, along with our sister brand www.privatelabel.ie, work with other 3rd party brands to develop new meals and ranges. There is a cost for this, and we can support the scaling of production, food safety, lab testing and support you with the information you need to brand your products legally. Just contact No Middleman for more details.

The Team at No Middleman offer different pack formats. Our retail ranges are packed in both CPET trays and foil trays; both trays can be reheated in the oven or microwave as well as air fryers. The pack sizes are typically from 280gm Kids Kitchen (www.kidskitchen.ie) meals through to 500gm carvery meals for retail, IPAS and meals on wheels clients (www.mealsonwheelsireland.ie). Our food service ranges are packed in 2.5kg CPET and Foil trays that can be re-heated in ovens or microwaves. Soups are typically packed in 5ltr buckets. Just contact No Middleman for more details.

The Team at No Middleman are delighted to confirm that all our packaging formats are fully recyclable. Just contact No Middleman for more details.

The Team at No Middleman can support seasonal lines during the summer and at Christmas. We have, for example, a range of seasonal side dishes for the Christmas period under our www.kitchenclassics.ie brand. Just contact No Middleman for more details.

The Team at No Middleman have the capacity to produce in excess of 10,000 meal portions per day. Just contact No Middleman for more details.

The Team at No Middleman do of course provide samples; we are proud of the meals we produce. There is a delivery charge for samples of our own range items and the costs of production and delivery of private label lines (www.privatelabel.ie). Just contact No Middleman for more details.

The Team at No Middleman range of meals can be heated in multi-regeneration formats. All the retail meals can be reheated in the oven or microwave, as well as on the hobs in some cases. Our food service ranges can be reheated in oven, combi, microwaves or turbo chefs for deli counters and coffee shops. Full heating instructions are on all packs. Just contact No Middleman for more details.

The Team at No Middleman are certified by Cork County Council and have our unique EU number. We are also certified by BRC and can provide halal certification on the ranges we declare as halal. For all our www.fitmeals.ie and www.livingwellfoods.ie ranges where we make health claims such as low salt or high protein, we have the results from 3rd party labs to confirm our claims, and the same is true of our new keto friendly ranges. Just contact No Middleman for more details.

The Team at No Middleman have just recently launched a new hot breakfast offer - a 6-part breakfast that is reheated in a microwave and is in a CPET tray. The meal is made up of omelette, sausage, tomato, beans, potato and mushroom and is unique to the Irish market. Just contact No Middleman for more details.

The Team at No Middleman offer a number of health-focused meals. www.fitmeals.ie is the only award-winning retail range in Ireland and the UK where all the meals can legally be declared high in protein. In addition, we have just launched a new range of Keto meals, where all our new keto meals are less than 5% of carbs and still taste great. Our www.livingwellfoods.ie range is a range of healthy nutritious meals of 400gm where all the meals are legally high in protein or a source of protein. Also suitable are the healthy www.kidskitchen.ie ranges where the meals are nutritionally dense and small portions (280gm). Just contact No Middleman for more details.

The Team at No Middleman offer our www.globalkitchen.ie brand that has been specifically developed for the under 35-year-old market in Ireland and the UK. The range, developed by our well-travelled chefs, puts a spin on things, and we have developed a range based on the street food vendors of the world. Just contact No Middleman for more details.

The Team at No Middleman have won multiple awards both nationally and internationally. We have some 12 Great Taste Awards, 15 Irish Blas nah Eireann awards, as well as awards from Singapore and companies such as Compass Catering. It is not only us saying the meals are great products; all these awards bodies say it as well. Just contact No Middleman for more details.

The Team at No Middleman have a large range of meals that are suitable for IPAS and immigration centres. We have a range of 3rd party certified halal meals (www.thehalalfoodcompany.ie), vegan and vegetarian meals under our www.foodadventures.ie brand. In addition to this, we offer a large range of non-halal meals as well as ethnic recipes for residents from Africa and the Middle East, as well as Ukraine. Just contact No Middleman for more details.

The Team at No Middleman offer both food service and retail, individual portions. Our food service range can be found at www.theschoolmealscompany.ie for bulk versions of healthy meals, and for small schools and after school clubs we offer our www.kidskitchen.ie ranges. Just contact No Middleman for more details.