NUTRITION
What each player needs.
Requirements, fuelling, recovery, preferences and approved substitutions.
MANAGED AWAY-FOOD EXECUTION
Your standards should travel with the team.
Give us the itinerary and performance requirements. Form & Fork makes sure every player receives food they need and genuinely enjoy — from departure to return.
NUTRITIONPlayer requirements
TRAVELItinerary + timings
FORM & FORKMAKE IT HAPPEN
PLAYERRight food. Right moment.
RIGHT PLAYERRIGHT FOODRIGHT PLACERIGHT TIME
THE EXECUTION GAP
The plan is only as good as the execution.
Your experts already know what good looks like. The missing job is making sure it survives contact with an unfamiliar destination.
TRAVEL
Where the team needs to be.
Flights, hotels, transport, training, matchday and live itinerary changes.
03FORM & FORK
We make it happen.
We convert the performance plan and live itinerary into food that can actually be sourced, prepared, served, verified and adapted around the player.
Menus→
Kitchens→
Ingredients→
People→
Timing→
Delivery→
Adaptation
The nutrition plan says what should happen. We make sure the player experiences it.
HOW WE CAN WORK TOGETHER
Choose how much support you need.
Start with one difficult trip, build a repeatable standard, or hand us the food operation. We fit around the team you already have.
01REVIEW
ARRIVE READY
Know what will break before the squad arrives.
We review one upcoming journey, test the destination against your requirements and give your team a practical readiness plan.
- Kitchen + equipment readiness
- Ingredient + supplier checks
- Meal-window + itinerary mapping
- Risks, backups + action plan
02MANAGE
HAND US THE TRIP
One accountable team from departure to return.
We coordinate the people, kitchens, ingredients, service windows and live changes so your staff can stay focused on performance.
- Chef + provider coordination
- Travel, hotel + matchday food
- Live verification + exceptions
- Player feedback + post-trip learning
03STANDARDISE
MAKE AWAY FEEL FAMILIAR
Turn what works into your club standard.
We codify the best of your existing approach so it can be repeated across fixtures, tournaments, squads and destinations.
- Club operating playbook
- Chef + supplier standards
- Staff workflows + training
- Season + tournament continuity
Not sure where to start?
Tell us where you’re going
Tell us the sport, dates, destination, squad size and how you manage away food today. We’ll recommend the lightest level of support that properly covers the trip.
START WITH YOUR RESPONSIBILITY
What matters to you—and the player you support?
The same trip looks different depending on whether you represent the player, set the performance plan, run team operations or arrange the destination. Form & Fork fits around that responsibility.
Your player should not have to compromise their routine to travel, transfer or represent their country.
We give you an accountable food specialist who works with the player, family, club and performance team. The goal is simple: familiar, performance-aligned food they trust and enjoy, with problems solved before they become your player’s problem.
- New-club and international-player food onboarding
- Cultural, religious and personal preferences
- Continuity across home, club and international duty
- Early escalation when the destination cannot deliver
Protect the standard you have already invested in.
One accountable layer for the food operation whenever the squad leaves its usual environment.
- Fewer destination surprises
- Clear ownership from departure to return
- Repeatable delivery across squads
You set the requirement. We carry it into the kitchen.
Your plan remains the source of truth. We translate it into menus, sourcing, timings and checks the destination can execute.
- No competing nutrition philosophy
- Player preferences understood
- Delivery evidence and feedback
Feel looked after, not managed.
Food should feel familiar, taste good and support the routine—especially during a transfer, tournament or long trip.
- Food you genuinely want to eat
- Culture, faith and home preferences respected
- Aligned with club requirements
Add specialist food execution without becoming the kitchen operator.
You retain transport and accommodation. We make the chosen destination performance-food ready.
- Clear specialist scope
- Works with existing hotel teams
- Visible or white-label delivery
Form & Fork never cuts across the club’s medical or nutrition authority. We make the agreed plan executable and keep the player experience at the centre.
Tell us what you need ↘THE FORM & FORK PLATFORM
The trip becomes a system.
We start by running the operation with you. Every trip captures the player needs, destination readiness, kitchens, suppliers, meal windows and live changes that made it work. The platform turns that operating judgement into a repeatable system your team can see, share and improve.
See readiness gaps before the squad travels.
Keep meals, people and changes aligned to the itinerary.
Build destination knowledge that gets stronger every trip.
One operating view for the whole journey.
See readiness gaps before the squad travels. Keep meals, people and changes aligned to the itinerary.
Destination readyREADY
Player profiles25 / 25
Meal windows14 / 16
Needs attention2
JourneyLIVE PLAN
✓Departure10:00
✓Arrival15:00
3Training17:30
4Dinner19:00
5Pre-match17:30
6Match21:00
7Recovery23:00
Food moments16
Team lunch12:30
Pre-training16:00
Recovery meal23:15
Destination readiness92%
BUILT AROUND YOUR TEAM
Keep your systems. Extend your standard.
Your nutrition, performance and travel systems stay where they are. Form & Fork turns their requirements into something the destination can execute.
YOUR TEAMNutrition · Performance · Operations · Travel
The people who define the standard.
FORM & FORKTranslate · Coordinate · Verify · Adapt
The accountable execution layer.
THE DESTINATIONHotel · Kitchen · Chef · Supplier · Stadium
The people and places that make it real.
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE · UK / USA
The standard stays the same. The operating environment does not.
Elite performance nutrition is increasingly individualised and integrated with the wider performance team. The USOPC describes a food-first, evidence-based approach built around individual fuelling, hydration and recovery. Our job is to protect that standard when the team leaves its normal environment.
Why this mattersUSOPC performance nutrition guidance ↗
COUNTRIES WE SUPPORT
Local reality changes. Your standard should not.
Use the country briefs to understand the operational issues that change on the ground, then plan the food environment before the team arrives.
ChinaFood control · anti-doping · sourcing
View country briefSpainElite performance · clubs · federations
View country briefBrazilMulti-city movement · major events
View country briefUnited StatesIndividualised performance systems
View country briefUK & IrelandDense calendars · late finishes
View country briefGermanyProcess precision · international squads
View country briefPortugalHigh-performance camps · travel
View country briefPakistanTouring · sourcing · hydration
View country briefBUILT FOR THE REAL WORLD
Explore by sport, destination or tournament.
The food problem changes with the competition format, the country and the squad. Start with the context that looks most like your next trip.
Different sport. Different rhythm.
How football, cricket and rugby change meal timing, volume, travel and recovery.
Explore ↗Every country changes the operating problem.
Local kitchens, ingredients, standards, language and logistics — mapped before arrival.
CountriesTournament-ready before the first fixture.
Base camps, multi-city moves, recovery windows and contingencies built into one operating plan.
Explore ↗EXPERIENCE BEHIND FORM & FORK
Built in elite sport. Not built for one sport.
Our experience comes from years inside elite sport across football, cricket and rugby, working in kitchens, hotels, travel days, matchdays and recovery windows where plans meet reality.
We understand what athletes genuinely enjoy eating, how unfamiliar kitchens behave under pressure and what has to change when ingredients, facilities, timings or plans move.
Form & Fork turns that judgement into a service your team can use now, with tools and standards that make more of it possible in-house over time.
CROSS-SPORT EXPERIENCE
01
FOOTBALLClub · international · tournament
02
CRICKETWorld Cup · tours · multi-day competition
03
RUGBYTours · camps · high-volume away environments
EXPERIENCE BEHIND FORM & FORK INCLUDES
LiverpoolWrexhamEngland MenEngland WomenInternational CricketRugby environments
THE PEOPLE BEHIND FORM & FORK
Operational experience meets product and scale.
Form & Fork combines hands-on elite-sport execution with the commercial and technology experience to turn it into a repeatable business.
Co-founder · Culinary & performance
David Pyle
Nearly a decade inside elite sport across football, cricket and rugby environments. First-hand knowledge of player food, kitchens, suppliers and live away execution.
Co-founder · Commercial & growth
Josh Swerdlow
Technology founder and commercial leader with 20+ years building B2B businesses, international partnerships and AI products. Focused on turning specialist expertise into a scalable service and platform.
FROM THE ROAD
Five-star hotel. Michelin-starred restaurant. Wrong kitchen.
01The situation
An elite football squad was booked into a premium hotel. On paper, the food environment looked exceptional.
02What we found
The kitchen did not have the capacity or equipment needed to deliver the team’s food operation at the required volume and timing.
03What changed
The plan was rebuilt around the actual kitchen, people, equipment and service windows before the critical player meals.
04The lesson
Luxury hospitality and elite-team readiness are not the same thing. Someone still has to make the plan and destination work together.
The hotel was booked.The nutrition plan existed.Form & Fork closes the gap between them.
PLAYER EXPERIENCE STANDARD
Performance food players genuinely look forward to eating.
COLLABORATIVE BY DESIGN
Everyone keeps doing their job. We make sure nothing falls between them.
We do not arrive with another system and ask your departments to reorganise around us. We connect the people who already own the plan to the people who have to execute it.
YOUR TEAMTHEIR ROLEFORM & FORK
NutritionDefines what players requireTurns requirements into executable food
PerformanceSets preparation and recovery prioritiesConnects food to those moments
Team OperationsOwns the live squad scheduleAdapts delivery around the itinerary
TravelBooks movement and accommodationMakes the chosen destination food-ready
Hotel / KitchenPrepares and servesGets the brief, support and checks needed to execute
START WITH ONE JOURNEY
Where are you going next?
Tell us about one upcoming trip. We’ll show you where the food operation is exposed, what can be improved and the lightest way Form & Fork can help.
Prefer to talk directly?josh@formandfork.com