Travel & Hospitality

Different contexts. Variable volumes. Zero margin for error.

Hotels, airports, ships, trains, motorway services. Every channel has its own constraints. All share the same need: serving significant volumes, with consistent quality, to people arriving from around the world.

Four scenarios. One partner.

Every channel has different constraints. We know them and design specific solutions for each.

Hotel & Resort

Breakfast for 300 at 7am. Banquet for 150 at 8pm. À la carte restaurant in between. Three services, one brigade. Semi-finished products for breakfast and banqueting — the high-volume operations — so the kitchen focuses on the restaurant, where perceived value is highest.

In-flight & Airport

300 passengers, 12 hours, zero food safety errors. Ready meals with shelf life and formats designed for aviation constraints — tray compatibility, onboard regeneration, certified portions. At the airport: continuous turnover, fast kitchens, international clientele. Products that keep the pace without becoming anonymous.

Cruise & Naval

Floating cities, active 24 hours. Buffets, themed restaurants, room service, events — all simultaneously, all at sea. Volumes that fluctuate with seasonality and routes. Full range from semi-finished products for onboard kitchens to ready meals for peak demand, designed for naval spaces and equipment.

A 6,000-passenger ship serves over 30,000 meals per day. Food is the second-largest cost after fuel. The top 3 cruise operators spend approximately €2.3 billion per year on food.

Travel F&B — Motorway & Rail

Unpredictable flows, reduced staff, changed expectations — even travellers want to eat well. Ready-to-regenerate meals and quick-finishing semi-finished products: quality offering, minimal operations, protected margins.

Travel catering is not going back in-house. It is moving toward specialist partners.
20–25%
Onboard food never touched
Share of meals and beverages loaded onto flights that returns to ground untouched. Structural waste linked to overproduction and consumption unpredictability.
€230M+
Saved in naval food cost
A single cruise group avoided over €230 million in food costs in 5 years (–44% waste) by redesigning provisioning, preparation, and service.
+8.2%
Outsourced catering growth
The outsourced segment is the most dynamic in travel catering. Airlines and cruise operators outsource for expertise and flexibility.
Outsourcing is not a cost-saving choice. It is a competence choice. Airlines outsource catering to specialists to access diversified culinary expertise, manage complex food safety regulations, and scale volumes based on route seasonality. The model is extending to hotels and rail operators with the same logic.

Inflight catering in Europe has fully recovered since 2020. Passenger traffic has surpassed pre-pandemic levels and carriers are reintroducing structured menus even in economy class to differentiate from low-cost competition.

The constraint is not the food budget. It is operational complexity. On a cruise ship, food cost per passenger runs between €9 and €14 per day — roughly 6% of the fare. The real cost is managing 300 chefs, multi-port provisioning, international diets, and health standards across multiple jurisdictions. A partner that centralises recipe development and guarantees traceability reduces complexity, not just cost.

The largest ships load over 25,000 different items for a week-long cruise. Route predictability enables extremely precise planning — but requires a supplier who can produce to exact specifications with non-negotiable timelines.

Simplify management. Consolidate results.

One point of contact for every channel. Recipe development, quality control, pricing, traceability: all consolidated. Do not triple your suppliers. Simplify management.

Centralised recipe development. A single R&D team that understands the constraints of every channel — from aviation regulations to naval specifications.
Consolidated pricing. Volumes aggregated across multiple channels mean better conditions on raw materials and production.
Unified traceability. YSABEL ensures product consistency and complete documentation for every jurisdiction.
Adaptive supply chain. Volumes that fluctuate with seasonality and routes. Our logistics adapt to embarkation schedules and traffic peaks.

Built to Perform.

Tell us about your operational scenarios. We will design the solution.

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