The Craft Guild Culinary Team is an elite group of chefs who work together to compete in culinary competitions at the very highest level in the UK and beyond. The team took part in the recent 2024 Culinary Olympics in Stuttgart where they excelled, taking home seven medals including five gold, one silver and one bronze.

Currently the team consists of nine chefs who have demonstrated not only their skills in culinary excellence but also their ability to perform in the highly pressurised environment of a competition. The team aims to grow to 17 chefs in 2025 and to 20 by 2026.

The Craft Guild Culinary Team is already preparing for its participation in the Culinary World Cup, which will take place in Luxembourg in November 2026.

Team Captain for the Craft Guild Culinary Team, Terry O’Riordan said: “We are thrilled to have Kelsius on board as our sponsor and providing us with the critical digital HACCP system that will support our team in competition.

“We need robust and reliable digital HACCP that will give us real-time results under pressure. We believe that Kelsius provides us with that, and we look forward to working with the Kelsius team to help us ensure that the system is optimised and tailored for our very specific needs.”

To exercise best practice in the competition, teams are required to use a digital HACCP system and FoodCheck 2.0 from Kelsius will be the system of choice for the competing Craft Guild Culinary Team.

The team will use Kelsius’s digital sensor technology which will provide automated temperature recordings of fridges and freezers. This will remove the need to manually take and input temperature recordings and all alerts will be directed in real time to a push notification app or email.

Rob Lelliott, Kelsius sales manager UK, added: “The Craft Guild Culinary Team has already demonstrated their extraordinary levels of delivery and performance at the 2024 Culinary Olympics. We are delighted that our FoodCheck 2.0 digital HACCP system has been selected for the team.

“Having demonstrated its capabilities we are extremely confident that it will meet and exceed the standards required for the World Cup scoring system. FoodCheck delivers and performs to the very highest levels, whether this is for a small hospitality business or a professional team competing on an international stage. We look forward to supporting the team as they prepare for the 2026 World Cup and we wish them every success.”