Taking place on 2 March at Old Billingsgate Market in London, the fight card includes Jason Atherton facing off against his protege Andy Beynon; Alex Bond taking on Adam Smith; and Paul Foster duking it out with Niall Keating.
All the fighters (see below) can be sponsored here.
- Dan Wade vs Michael Bremner
- Woongchul Park vs Hira Thakur
- Tom Hamblet vs Theo Clench
- Corrin Harrison vs Kray Tredwell
- Chloe McCoy vs Celia Farrar
- Jonpaul Sato vs Dan Page
- Alex Bond vs Adam Smith
- Paul Foster vs Niall Keating
- Jason Atherton vs Andy Benyon
Most of the chefs involved have spent the past six months undergoing professional training.
Food Fight will bring together 800 guests from across hospitality, food and education.
The menu has been curated by Jean Delport, the executive chef and Restaurant Interlude in West Sussex and a Prept ambassador.
The headline sponsors for the event are catering equipment supplier Lockhart and furniture company Smallbone.
“Food Fight is a powerful combination of performance and purpose,” says Prept Foundation co-founder Jessica Aggarwal. “We’re inviting the industry to come together, support a vital cause, and enjoy a night they’ll never forget.”
The current charity partner for Restaurant’s National Restaurant Awards, Prept. Foundation delivers hands-on, skills-based cooking sessions in schools and communities across Sussex and London, and will soon be launching in Lancashire, Manchester and Birmingham.
These workshops help young people develop a healthy, confident relationship with food while gaining essential life skills and discovering pathways into the hospitality industry.
Prept programmes are designed to inspire, teaching young people how to cook and plate like professional chefs, explore the fundamentals of global cuisine, understand sustainability in the kitchen, and master essential skills such as making basic sauces.
Sessions are practical, engaging, and inclusive, equipping children with knowledge they can bring home to share with family and friends, all while building stronger mental health, self-esteem, and ambition.
Prept in action
Stacey Newport, head of food technology at Harrow Way Community School in Andover, Hampshire, on the impact the charity has had in her school.
“We only have five practical food lessons a year at Key Stage 3. That’s the reality. People often ask why schools aren’t teaching children more about food and nutrition - but with five lessons, there’s only so much you can do.
Time is a huge constraint, and so is funding. We have to be mindful of the cost of living crisis when asking parents to provide ingredients. Schools can’t always afford food specialists either, so in many secondaries the subject is delivered by teachers whose expertise lies elsewhere. I’m passionate about food and hospitality, but that isn’t the case everywhere.
That’s why Prept has been so important for us. They bring chefs, ingredients and technical skills that we simply couldn’t provide on our own. For many of our pupils, particularly those from low-income families, they’ve introduced ingredients and experiences they’ve never had before.
One student with special educational needs really stands out. He’s extremely shy and struggles to communicate with people he doesn’t know, so I was concerned about how he’d respond to outside chefs coming in. He also lacked confidence and had very little belief in his own ability.
Over the course of the sessions, that changed completely. By the third session he was answering questions in front of the group and fully involved in everything we were doing. Like many of our students, his diet had been largely processed food and he was reluctant to try fruit and vegetables. By the end, he was trying everything."