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Now with a combi oven
Restaurant-quality meals. No chef needed.
Chef-made meals your team serves in minutes. Scan the pack and the station does the cooking.
£300 of food on us when you order by 14 November.
Nova Chef already serves Hilton, Millennium, Marriott, Holiday Inn, The Padel Hub, Slough Town FC and venues across the UK that need chef-quality meals at any hour.
In short
The Generation 2 kit is equipment with no settings to press. Staff scan the barcode on a chef-made Nova Chef meal and the station programs the combi oven, air fryer or microwave and runs the right setting. Restaurant-quality food, served without a chef in the building. Anyone on shift serves the full menu. Meals from £3 a portion. The full system with a combi oven is £1,940 ex VAT plus £295 installation; smaller kits start at £1,365, or hire from £208 a month. Patent pending.
A chef-led menu. None of the chef.
The station runs the appliances. Your team runs the shift.
The barcode runs the cook
Scan the pack and the barcode does the rest: the screen names the dish, says which appliance to load, sets the programme and counts down. Nothing to remember, nothing to set.
Microwave, air fryer and combi oven
Featherblade beef from the combi oven. Chips, crispy chicken, arancini and the gourmet beef burger from the air fryer. All alongside the mains you already serve. The station programs the combi oven, air fryer or microwave and runs the right setting, so a burger never goes in the microwave.
Built to grow
One station runs up to eight appliances. Add microwaves, air fryers or a combi oven to match your busiest half hour.
Meals from £3 a portion. The full system with a combi oven is £1,940 ex VAT.
Scan. Load. Serve.
Every Nova Chef meal leaves our kitchen with a barcode on the label. The station reads it and knows exactly how that dish is finished.
SCAN
Hold the pack to the scanner. The screen names the dish and the appliance.
LOAD
Microwave, air fryer or combi oven. The programme is already set. Press start.
SERVE
The screen counts down and tells you when it is ready. Plate and serve.
The microwaves, air fryers and combi oven are standard units; the station simply tells them what the dish needs.
Whoever is on shift
Day one
A new starter serves the full menu on their first shift. There is no setting to learn and no timing to remember.
Every time
The same dish comes out the same way at 7 pm on a Saturday as it did at 11 am on a Tuesday, whoever is behind the counter.
Seen from anywhere
Every cook is on your dashboard the moment it starts. Managers see the shift without being in the kitchen.
Live dashboard
Every kitchen. Live. On one screen.
The station reports everything it does. Your dashboard turns that into control of every site, from anywhere.
- Live view. What every appliance is doing right now, on every site.
- Full history. Every cook logged: what was served, when, on which appliance, how long.
- Live inventory. Stock per product, per site, built from what was delivered minus what was cooked. No counting.
- Reorder reminders. A prompt when a product is about to run out, based on what that site actually serves.
Included for twelve months with every kit. Multi-site views for groups.
Your station
Your site
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Your station, as it appears in your Nova Chef account
The crispy side of the menu is on
Chef-made centrally, finished on your worktop. The station programs the combi oven, air fryer or microwave and runs the right setting, so a burger never goes in the microwave.
Premium proteins, sous-vide
Slow-cooked centrally for hours, finished on the station in minutes. The mains that used to need a chef on the pass, served by whoever is on shift.
Sous-vide featherblade beef
Combi oven
Beef burger with chips
Air fryer
Crispy chicken burger
Air fryer
Korean crispy chicken strips
Air fryer
Chicken gyoza
Microwave
Creamy bacon carbonara
MicrowaveMains
Sous-vide featherblade and lamb shank from the combi oven. Curries, pasta, pies and rice bowls from the microwave.
Crispy
Burgers, wings, gyoza and chips from the air fryer, the dishes a bar menu always wanted.
For everyone
Vegetarian and vegan options across the range, with allergen information on every label.
Over 80 dishes and counting, with new ones arriving on the station as programme updates.
What it costs
Two parts: the chef-made meals you order, and the station that cooks them.
The meals
Priced per portion, sold in cases of 12. Most mains come to £3 to £5 a portion. Order through the customer portal.
A few favourites, per portion, ex VAT. The full menu has 80+ dishes.
The station
Five kits, one station in each. Buy outright or hire, and add appliances as you grow.
1 microwave + 1 air fryer
Bars, clubhouses, small hotels
Buy£1,365
or hire £208 a month
2 microwaves + 1 air fryer
Room service, matchday, all-day cafés
Buy£1,690
or hire £249 a month
2 microwaves + 1 air fryer + 1 combi oven
Room service, matchday, all-day cafés. Combi oven included for featherblade and the sous-vide mains.
Buy£1,940
or hire £282 a month
3 microwaves + 2 air fryers
Busy bars, larger hotels
Buy£2,180
or hire £313 a month
4 microwaves + 2 air fryers
Large hotels, high-volume kitchens. Need more? Add another station.
Buy£2,500
or hire £354 a month
Add a combi oven to any kit: £250. £300 of food on us when you order by 14 November: your first food order after installation carries the credit.
- Buy. Installation and commissioning £295. Twelve months of updates, dashboard and support included, then £15 per station per month. Twelve-month Nova Chef warranty on every item.
- Hire. Installation and staff training £295, one-off. Three months minimum, then monthly on 30 days' notice.
- Hire to buy. Switch at any time and half of what you have paid comes off the price.
- All prices ex VAT, correct at October 2026.
What arrives
Every kit includes the station, installation and a year of updates and support:
The station
Touchscreen, barcode scanner and controller in one countertop unit beside the appliances. Patent pending.
Microwaves, air fryers and combi ovens
Standard units supplied configured for the station, with a twelve-month Nova Chef warranty.
Installation
We install, connect and test every appliance, then show your team the three steps. Most sites are running the same day.
Programme updates
New dishes arrive on the station automatically.
Live dashboard
Every appliance, every cook, live inventory and reorder reminders, by site.
Remote support
We see the station's health remotely and fix most things without a visit.
Power. One standard socket per appliance. Larger kits may need extra circuits; we confirm on the sizing call.
Space. Worktop for the station and appliances, an upright freezer for stock. No extraction, no drainage, no prep area.
Connectivity. The station talks to the appliances locally. Service carries on if the internet drops.
On the worktop, not in a kitchen
One socket each.
The station, microwaves, air fryer and combi oven on an ordinary worktop, every appliance on a standard plug socket. No extraction, no drainage, no prep area. Most sites are serving the same day we arrive.
Trusted by leading companies
Hospitality
Hotels serve restaurant-quality room service and bar food around the clock, with the team already on shift and no kitchen brigade.
Sports and leisure
Padel clubs, football clubs and golf clubs turn the clubhouse into a food business: matchday volume, all-day menus, one station.
Workplaces
Offices and sites feed teams chef-made food on demand, without a canteen or a catering contract.
Healthcare and education
Hospitals, care settings and campuses serve clearly labelled, consistent hot meals at any hour.
The same chef-made food, finished on site, across every sector. The Generation 2 station brings it to a worktop.
What operators say about Nova Chef
Hotel F&B directors, club managers and chefs on what changed.QUESTIONS BUYERS ASK
Two parts. The meals are priced per portion and sold in cases of 12; most mains come to £3 to £5 a portion. The station: the full system, two microwaves, an air fryer and a combi oven, is £1,940 ex VAT plus £295 installation. Smaller kits start at £1,365, or hire from £208 a month plus £295 for installation and staff training. Every kit comes with twelve months of updates, dashboard and support; after that the platform is £15 per station per month. Orders placed by 14 November get £300 of food on us.
No. The screen says which appliance to load and sets the programme; they press start and serve when it signals. We show the team on installation day and that is the whole course.
The station (touchscreen, barcode scanner and controller), the microwaves, air fryers and combi oven in the kit you choose, installation and commissioning, a twelve-month warranty on every item, and a year of programme updates, live dashboard and remote support.
Buy if you want the kit on your books at a single-site price. Hire if you want to spread the cost, with only the £295 installation and staff training upfront, and the flexibility to stop on 30 days' notice after three months. You can switch from hire to buy at any time and half of what you have paid comes off the price. On purchase the appliances are yours, and so is their replacement in time; on hire, replacement is included.
Service carries on. The station talks to the appliances locally, so scanning and cooking do not depend on the connection. The dashboard catches up when it returns.
Yes. One station runs up to eight appliances; a microwave counts as one and an air fryer as two. Start with what your busiest half hour needs and add as you grow. Bigger kitchens add a second station.