Deli Lites secures deal as demand for on-the-go healthier lunch options rises

Co Down sandwich company, Deli Lites has secured a deal with the Spar network for a new range of Planet Café food on the go products.

Consumers will be able to purchase six new products from the recently launched Planet Café range across more than 100 Spar stores in Scotland. It’s the first time the range will be available in Great Britain.

Dedicated to bringing the best Irish food on the go choices to the international market, Planet Café is committed to using the finest ingredients from local producers to create quality, responsibly sourced, nutritious food on the go products.

The Planet Café range has been developed to provide discerning consumers more excitement and choice, specifically providing hot food options to eat when on the move.

The six new recipes are inspired by flavours of the world with a focus on premium ingredients and being kind to the planet.

Brian Reid, CEO and co-founder of Deli Lites which launched Planet Café just months ago said: “Our vision from the beginning has always been to provide customers with more choice and excitement when choosing food on the move. Our Planet Café range is a celebration of much-loved world flavours, prepared with the finest ingredients that offer customers a more wholesome, tasty hot food option without compromising on taste or quality.

“There has been a significant increase in demand for more choice in hot food on the go and the Planet Café offering, which is the first premium range of its kind in the market, has a variety of heat-to-eat products to suit many tastes. With hybrid working now becoming part of everyday life, we expect a strong demand for on-the-go healthier lunch options, especially across the UK’s towns and villages as home workers decide to pop out for a healthy heat to eat lunch.

“Now that products from our Planet Café range will be available to Spar customers in over 100 stores across Scotland many more customers will have a chance to taste the Planet Café difference. We have no doubt that our heat-to-eat product range in Spar will become a firm favourite with customers.”

Stephen Brown, head of Food to Go for C J Lang & Son Ltd , added: “We’re delighted to be working with Deli Lites to bring these new, innovative food to go products to our customers through our network of company owned SPAR stores across Scotland.

"At Spar Scotland we’re always looking to continually improve upon our existing food to go offering, looking for new products to tempt our customers. These products from Planet Café do just that and we’re excited to be the first convenience retailer in the UK to offer up these great tasting food to go products.”

Spar customers will be spoilt for choice with the new Planet Café, choosing from the Louisiana Inspired Cajun Chicken Panini, the Ultimate Chicken & Bacon Irish Tósta, the Mexican Inspired Chipotle Beef Burrito, the Grilled Cheese & Ham Irish Tósta, the Tex Mex Inspired Plant Based Burrito and the Tuscan Inspired Veg & Mozzarella Panini in their retail outlets.