Excellence in catering and food manufacturing
We are food manufacturers who also offer catering services across NZ, based in Rangiora, North Canterbury
NZ Foods Direct
NZ Foods Direct is a food manufacturing company based Canterbury. We cater for events of all sizes and provide contract food manufacturing and packaging from our on-site MPI certified commercial kitchen.
We also operate Fitfood, a ready-made meal delivery service for people living a healthy lifestyle.
If you are interested in our catering services, or food manufacturing, then feel free to contact us for a friendly chat to discuss your requirements.
Fitfood
Fitfood is our range of ready-made meals for people with active lifestyles. Convenient, tasty and nutritionally balanced.
Eat fit. Live well.
Catering
We cater for events from 20 to 500 people in North Canterbury – quality homemade cuisine designed to your specification delivered fresh on time and on budget for your event.
Commercial kitchen
We manufacture, package and distribute commercial food and meal kits for nationwide brands. We are available to take on one-off, short-term, and long-term food manufacturing contracts.
The NZ Foods Direct team
Our team of food industry professionals include six qualified and passionate chefs managed by the Executive Chef Mike Maguire, who has experience running large kitchen brigades around the world.
Mike brings an international flair alongside that of his experienced team, some whom he has worked with for many years in other organisations.
The team of kitchen assistants and packaging is led by Jasmine Greene and Matthew Edmondston. Matthew is a qualified chef, and has worked with and managed large teams with Sky Chefs – so he certainly keeps the operation running like clockwork.
Sustainability and values
NZ Foods Direct is a socially, ethically and environmentally responsible company. This is the only path to a great future for everyone.
We use all free-range meats and source organic produce whenever possible. Our goal is to become fully organic. We also love to support our local growers and purchase fresh locally as much as possible.
We choose suppliers that exceed the highest animal welfare standards so our meals are ethically and responsibly sourced from local growers we know and trust.
We love New Zealand and we love this planet, so we go above and beyond to reduce our company's impact on the environment. We are always seeking new ways to care for the environment, including using sustainable and recyclable packaging. Clients are welcome to return packaging to our facility for recycling.
