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Catering Equipment Hire Company based in Warwickshire

We’re Here To Help You Make Your Event Incredibly Successful. Choosing Plato means choosing peace of mind

We make hiring catering equipment as easy as possible

Delivering throughout Birmingham, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, Worcestershire, Gloucestershire, The Cotswolds, and the West Midlands.

Plato Catering Hire is a multi-award-winning and SafeHire© certified catering equipment hire company,  located just minutes from Ragley Hall in Alcester, Warwickshire we supply catering equipment available to hire to transform any event.  To suit you, your idea, your needs and your budget.

Reliability, efficiency and excellent service

Our focus on operational and performance excellence means we run every process to perfection. From hand-polishing cutlery to comprehensive equipment testing, we aim to exceed your expectations consistently. This level of scrutiny and dedication ensures that you’re partnering with a reliable and trustworthy provider, committed to the safety and success of your event.

From our warehouse, our dedicated team meticulously picks, packs, and delivers a comprehensive range of plates, glasses, cutlery, linen, furniture, and kitchen equipment for events. We deliver throughout Birmingham, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, Worcestershire, Gloucestershire, The Cotswolds, and the West Midlands.  Available to hire in any quantity (no minimum order) for weddings, balls, award ceremonies, dinners and corporate events.

Understanding the importance of reliable equipment, efficient processes, and consistency, our team works tirelessly to ensure every item is impeccably maintained and event-ready. Since our inception in 1999, we have consistently aimed to excel, ensuring that every order is delivered exactly as requested, right where you need it.

With over 25 years of industry experience, our extensive knowledge and commitment to service make us a trusted partner for all your catering equipment hire needs. When you hire from us, you receive a promise: that your equipment will arrive on time, exactly as ordered, ensuring a seamless and successful event.

Choose Plato Catering Hire for unparalleled service and quality.

Expert guidance and support

Getting everything in place can be a challenge, and although hiring catering equipment such as glassescrockerycutlery, and kitchen equipment might not be the most exciting part of event planning, everything must be in place so the event goes to plan. We take the hassle out of catering equipment hire, leaving you to focus on your job.

We decided (very early on) that we would pay special attention to what you want at your event (be it a wedding, funeral, dinner party, birthday or corporate event for 1000) and then guide you through the hiring process.

Then we take your order and put it into a strict process-led system at our end so that on the day of the event, all your hired catering equipment will work, and you get the right amount of glasses, plates, cutlery, linen, chairs, and tables.

Award-winning and SafeHire© Certified

What you hire from us arrives clean, in working order, fully tested, and in the best possible condition. You’d hope that would be the norm, but having hired catering equipment in Birmingham, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, Worcestershire, Gloucestershire, The Cotswolds and West Midlands for decades, we can tell you it’s not.

Not all other hire companies are bad; they just don’t aim for the level we do.

We’re award-winning and SafeHire© certified because of it.

What that means for you is peace of mind.

Opting for a SafeHire© certified company guarantees that you’re working with a provider dedicated to exceeding customer service expectations and adhering to the highest industry standards. With SafeHire©, you can focus on the success of your event, confident that you’ve chosen a partner who prioritises safety, quality, and professionalism.

When looking for a catering equipment hire supplier, always look for the unmistakable bright orange SafeHire© logo. Ask for their certification number. Ours is 01142.

Choose Plato Catering Hire for unparalleled consistency and excellence in catering equipment hire.

 

What our clients say about us

The Plato Experience

Award-winning Services

Our multiple award-winning catering equipment hire service aims to provide exceptional quality products and outstanding customer service always.

High-quality Catering Equipment

SafeHire certified for many years we only offer the highest quality equipment that you can trust, every time.

Tailored to your Requirements

We’ll make sure you have all the equipment you need and supply you with a tailored quote including delivery, collection and wash-up.

Your Trusted Partner

Outstanding service levels since 1999, we take the hassle out of your equipment hire so you can focus on delivering a fantastic event.

The Plato Blog Insight into the catering equipment hire industry

Reviews
5 Over 97 Reviews
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Yet again Plato have given us excellent service and we would highly recommend them.
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Plato Catering Hire was amazing. We hired jugs for an afternoon tea. Collection was so easy and the jugs were individually wrapped.
We would definitely recommend Plato.
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Everything was extremely good!
My order was small and at late notice, the staff were extremely helpful when getting my quote and accepting the quote.
Glasses themselves were in immaculate condition and the delivery to my offices was all good. When contacting the company, they were always happy to help and efficient in answering my queries.
Thank you!
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Super helpful staff (and easily accommodated last minute changes to our order) and everything arrived on time and in excellent condition. They also picked up - which included a cleaning service - so we didn't have hours of washing up! (which we were enormously grateful for!). Highly recommend!
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Plato are a super-efficient friendly company. My order was quite last minute but they were brilliant and very helpful on the phone. Everything was spotless. Delivery and collection were on time. Thank you so much.
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Plato makes party entertaining an easy pleasure: plates and glassware simply ordered online, delivered and collected when agreed, and no washing up! Good to support this local business.
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We used Plato for our wedding from the moment I sent my first enquiry to the moment they collected the final glasses after the wedding the service was excellent always responsive to any queries last-minute changes and advice. Their website is comprehensive extremely easy to use with a wide range of excellent tableware and other services I would thoroughly recommend Plato for any event and we shall certainly be using them again in the future thank you so much to the Plato team
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Was recommended by a local catering company to use plato and found the service faultless.
With it been my first big event i asked for an earlier drop, so that i could check the power supply to the barn, which helped put my mind at rest. Once again thank you for delivering a great service.
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Extremely helpful in advising us what items would be needed for our wedding. The champagne buckets were stunning. Thank you!
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Communication and service was amazing from Plato Catering! Everything arrived in perfect condition, on time, and the process was seamless! Thank you so much!
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Communication and service was amazing from Plato Catering! Everything arrived in perfect condition, on time, and the process was seamless! Thank you so much!
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Plato Catering Hire are brilliant. Incredible customer service - accommodating, friendly and attentive. They made it all so easy for us. We will find excuses to work with Plato again! Thank you Stuart and team!
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Stuart and his team delivered an absolutely amazing job for my party at very short notice. The quality of the equipment was 5*, the delivery service and collection were completely on point, with both being lovely friendly guys where nothing was too much trouble for either of them.
You could tell they loved what they do, they'r job satisfaction shone from both of them, which I feel speaks volumes about a company and how they treat their employees. The website is so easily to use and the prices are beyond reasonable. Plato took all of the hard work out of my event and meant that I could really enjoy it myself without becoming stressed. I would highly recommend them to anybody from the most tiny gathering to a mass event, they are capable and beyond professional, and I will be using Plato every time going forward. Thank you so very much guys!!
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Thank you Plato Catering for a fantastic professional service. The products we used were excellent. It was surprisingly easy to order online and we had the choice of delivery or pick up. Everything was really well packaged and even the glasses were marked so we couldn't mix them up with our own. Could not have been easier. Will most definitely use the services of Plato again - cannot recommend enough for any parties or events.
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Stuart and his team are brilliant!
We have used them for many years, impeccable service and quality crockery and glassware hire..

Well recommended!
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Plato are friendly, responsive and very easy to deal with. The website is easy to navigate and the variety of products offered is extensive. Plato delivered exactly what they said they would, when they said they would. It was wonderful just to put the used items back into the crates and not have to wash them up. They were collected exactly as agreed. Will definitely use again and highly recommend
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After searching for hire companies for my wedding I came across plato and I couldn’t be more happy that I did. The service was truly amazing! The communication was absolutely amazing! Every time I needed to add something it was easy and plato were so good with answering every single question that I had regarding sizes. I would definitely use plato again and definitely recommend them to anyone who needs to use a hire company. Everyone at the wedding loved the rustic chairs and I couldn’t believe how good it looked! Thank you so much plato!
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I have hired from them previously and I have always had an awesome experience. not time wasters, they go to the point, make everything crystal clear and the process all and all is effortless. pick up also promptly so you don't have the hired items for days on end. I will defo hire them again and I am also recommending them to everyone I know.
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Working with Plato was so easy. I kept tweaking my order and each time the quote was quickly refreshed without any bother. Everything arrived neatly packed and was collected promptly after our party without me having to do any washing - amazing, would recommend.
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Very efficient company and the delivery guys, very friendly and helpful.
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We used Plato for a family party at home, we hired tables, Wine glasses and drinks glasses. all arrived on time, glasses clean and ready for use all collected on time. A great experience from delivery, collection and administration teams thank you very much. Edward
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Plato Catering had exactly the items that we needed for our 1920’s party. The items were delivered on time and picked up in a timely manner.
Very professional, efficient and friendly and helpful communications.
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This is a brilliant company. Extremely professional and very efficient. The equipment and sundries we hired were lovely.
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Great Communication and Service. Products perfect. Will definitely use again. A+
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We hired 80 champagne flutes for a party at our house. I found the whole experience with Plato to be seamless and easy. I thought they were great value too. The drop off and collection- without needing to wash up- was particularly good. Will definitely use again.
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Really easy to order glasses, plates, tables,and cutlery. Efficient delivery and collection, and a great experience overall.
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We have used Plato for our wedding; great service and great communication.
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Excellent service and the equipment supplied was like new
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Plato were absolutely fantastic from start to finish. We used them for our wedding and they went out of their way to help us, letting us visit their warehouse to view the items, being extremely efficient with all communications and providing a great service during our event. No issues at all, thank you Plato!
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The service we received from Plato was excellent.
We were holding a Street Party and everything arrived on time, was in good condition and again was collected on time.
Thank you

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