dnata Catering

dnata Catering & Retail is the global inflight catering and onboard retail division of dnata, the air services arm of the Emirates Group (Dubai). It prepares roughly 114 million meals annually with 500+ chefs and 10,000+ catering professionals from 60+ kitchen units across the UK, Ireland, Italy, Romania, Czech Republic, Jordan, USA, Canada, Singapore, Australia and the UAE, serving 120+ airlines. The business runs a fresh airline-catering arm plus a technology-driven onboard retail programme, the snapfresh frozen-meal manufacturing division (~30M readymade meals), VIP/private-aviation catering, and the En Route International product-development business. Operations are high-volume, just-in-time, food-safety-regulated (HACCP/GMP) chilled-meal production: cooking/portioning, cold-kitchen assembly, meal-tray set-up and loading meals into airline trolleys against tight aircraft departure schedules. The division has publicly signalled appetite for kitchen automation and AI, trialling cooking robots in its Australian operations and demonstrating cooking/hospitality robots at industry expos.