Our Vision

Welcome to the pod website.

I opened the first pod in 2006. I couldn't find anywhere that served nutritious, natural food so I decided to give it a go myself. After a very steep learning curve I'm truly proud that pod is now the largest and fastest growing healthy fast food chain in the UK, run by a group of fantastic, passionate, people.

We're pioneering a new kind of food business, with values that differ from traditional food retailers and which can be summarised as follows:

• INGREDIENTS - We use natural, meticulously sourced ingredients to make delicious, nutritious food that we all eat.
• PRINCIPLES - We embrace fairtrade / low food miles / sustainable fishing / no additives, preservatives or colourings / seasonality and UK farms. We cook our hot food properly and we never leave it standing in 'warm cabinets'.
• PEOPLE - Everybody at pod has a say in what we do and how we do it. We have great parties and a few weddings and babies under our belts now too...
• PACKAGING - We serve our food in compostable packaging, which is made from plant matter, and we provide a composter in every pod. Nothing less.
• PODS - We build every pod from sustainable or recycled materials. We use recycled glass, sustainably forested timber, recycled flooring and counter materials, British furniture, organic paint and lots more.

We're proud of what we're doing and we'd love to hear from you if you have any ideas or comments that might help us develop or maintain our values.



          Founder