Catering Hardware Ltd is a supplier to New Zealand's hospitality industry, operating from a showroom at 187 Ferry Rd in Linwood, central Christchurch. The company sources products both locally and from overseas, and has built its name on what it describes as the most comprehensive range of hospitality smallwares available in New Zealand — its website alone lists more than 9,000 products.
The catalogue covers virtually every corner of a working hospitality business: cookware, bakeware, kitchenware and gastronorm pans for the kitchen; crockery, cutlery, glassware, servingware, trays and platters for the table; barware and beverage servingware for the bar; plus scales, thermometers, timers, storage containers, brushware, dishwashing racks, linen, apparel and more. Knives are especially well represented, with dedicated ranges from Victorinox, Global, Wusthof, Kai Shun, Dick, Giesser, Sabatier and many other respected makers.
Beyond the range itself, the team puts product knowledge, attention to detail and service at the centre of what it does, and welcomes product enquiries by phone or email. Polytechnic student kits are tailored for those entering the trade, a clearance and specials section offers value across the catalogue, and orders can be delivered anywhere in New Zealand.
Catering Hardware Ltd supplies the New Zealand hospitality industry from its showroom at 187 Ferry Rd in Linwood, central Christchurch. The company sources products both locally and from overseas, and prides itself on carrying what it describes as the most comprehensive range of smallwares available in New Zealand — its website alone lists more than 9,000 products.
Smallwares — the tools, pans, plates and glasses that make up the daily grind of service — are the heart of the range. They are the pieces kitchens reorder constantly and can least afford to be without, and few suppliers in the country list as many of them in one place.
Browse the catalogue and it reads like a map of the hospitality trade. Kitchen-side categories include cookware, kitchenware, bakeware and patisserie, gastronorm food pans, and storage containers and bins. Precision tools such as scales, thermometers and timers sit alongside the unglamorous essentials that keep service running: brushware, dishwashing racks and accessories, and general food service equipment.
Front-of-house is covered just as thoroughly. Crockery, cutlery and glassware line up beside servingware, table and displayware, trays and platters, melamine items and enamelware. There is barware equipment and dedicated servingware for tea, coffee, water and other beverages, plus pizza accessories, linen and manchester, apparel and even a healthcare range. A clearance and specials section runs across it all.
One of the standout parts of the range is knives. Catering Hardware carries dedicated categories for a long list of respected knife makers — Victorinox, Global, Wusthof, Kai Shun, Dick, Giesser, Furi, Sabatier, Arcos, Bunmei, Kasumi, Mundial, Yaxell, Atlantic Chef, Kamati and Henckel among them — plus a separate knife accessories category for tools and extras.
The same breadth continues through the wider catalogue, with well-known hospitality and equipment brands including Anvil, Blue Seal, Hobart, Convotherm, Cambro, Cater Chef, Chef Inox, Avanti, KitchenAid, Magimix, Kenwood, Dualit, Lodge, Duralex, Arcoroc, Libbey, Luigi Bormioli and Luzerne.
Not every customer is running an established kitchen. The company produces polytechnic student kits — sets tailored specifically for students entering the trade — which take the guesswork out of assembling a first knife roll and kitchen kit before classes begin. Combined with the clearance specials, it gives apprentices and new operators a practical way to get started.
Shopping works two ways. Online, products can be browsed by category or brand, and a keyword search box narrows things down when you already know what you need. In person, the Linwood showroom serves central Christchurch. The team encourages customers to get in touch by phone or email with any product enquiry, and states plainly that product knowledge, attention to detail and the best possible service are its prime objectives — reassuring when you are matching a gastronorm pan size, choosing between knife steels or specifying pieces for a fit-out.
Because Catering Hardware delivers anywhere in New Zealand, the same comprehensive range is available to hospitality businesses well beyond Christchurch. Whether you are kitting out a first food truck, restocking a busy restaurant line or sending a student off to polytech, it positions itself as a one-stop smallwares supplier — deep on range, practical in focus, and built on product knowledge.