Caterer.com UK Hospitality Jobs Scraper

Scrape UK hospitality job postings from Caterer.com — chef, restaurant manager, hotel staff, events, sous-chef, bar manager. Every row carries title, employer + logo, location with lat/lng, structured salary band (min / max / currency / period), datePosted, validThrough, employment type, industry, and a populated applyUrl when the role is direct-apply. One flat row per job from rich JobPosting JSON-LD plus structured salary metadata.

Why this actor

Caterer.com is the dominant UK hospitality-vertical job board — chefs, restaurant managers, hotel staff, and events roles. ~5,900 live London hospitality postings at any time, server-side scoped to the hospitality vertical so you get exactly what Caterer.com's web UI shows.

• Hospitality-only result set — the actor's request is scoped to hospitality roles (chef, restaurant, hotel, events, bar staff) so you don't pay for irrelevant general-UK rows. Matches Caterer.com's web search exactly
• Efficient JSON listing pagination at 50 items per page, with totalItems reported up-front so we know exactly when we've reached the end
• Server-side filters — postedWithin (1 / 3 / 7 / 14 days), companyTypes (direct employer / agency), salary (minimum), and jobType (permanent / contract / temporary / part-time / work-from-home) all honoured server-side
• Apify Residential GB for the per-job detail fetch — the only proxy pool that consistently returns 200 OK on UK job-board detail pages
• JobPosting JSON-LD parsing — every row carries the full 14-field JSON-LD detail plus structured salary metadata. Hospitality jobs commonly use hourly rates (£12.50/hour, £14.80/hour) and the structured period field captures that cleanly
• applyUrl populated when directApply: true (≈ 60–70 % of jobs) — the candidate-facing apply URL, not just the search-page URL
• Mixed input — listing URLs auto-paginate + emit one row per detail; direct detail URLs scrape one row each

Use cases

• Hospitality recruitment market intelligence — salary benchmarking for chef, hotel manager, F&B roles by region; track which restaurant groups are actively hiring
• Restaurant / hotel chain competitive analysis — see what your competitors are paying for sous-chefs, F&B managers, event managers
• Hospitality staffing agencies — feed the structured rows into your placement workflow
• Industry research — track UK hospitality job market trends (post-pandemic recovery, immigration impact, regional differences)
• Geospatial analytics — every row carries location.lat + location.lng for mapping hotel/restaurant hiring hotspots
• Hourly-wage analytics — Caterer.com is one of the rare UK job boards where hourly salary data is rich; use salary.period === "hour" filtering for accurate hourly-rate analysis

Input

Field	Type	Required	Notes
startUrls	string[]	yes	Mix of listing URLs (https://www.caterer.com/jobs/in-london, /jobs/chef/in-london) and direct detail URLs. Filters supported in the query string: ?postedWithin=1|3|7|14, ?companytypes=1|2, ?salary={int}, ?jobType=permanent|contract|temporary|partTime|workFromHome.
maxItems	integer	no	Maximum job rows emitted per listing URL. Each row = one paid dataset item. Default 1000. Free-tier users have a hidden global ceiling of 100 rows.
maxConcurrency	integer	no	Parallel HTTP requests for detail-page fetches. Sweet spot 3–5 via Apify Residential GB. Default 4.
maxRequestRetries	integer	no	Per-URL retry budget on proxy CONNECT failures, HTTP/2 stream resets, and network errors. Default 6.
proxy	object	no	Apify Residential GB required for the detail-page fetch. Default is wired correctly — don't override unless you know what you're doing.

Example input

{
  "startUrls": [
    "https://www.caterer.com/jobs/chef/in-london",
    "https://www.caterer.com/jobs/in-manchester?postedWithin=7&companytypes=2"
  ],
  "maxItems": 200,
  "maxConcurrency": 4,
  "proxy": { "useApifyProxy": true, "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"], "apifyProxyCountry": "GB" }
}

Output schema

Every row has rowType: "job". 14 fields from JSON-LD + structured salary band (often hourly for hospitality) + lat/lng + applyUrl.

{
  "rowType":           "job",
  "sourceSearchUrl":   "https://www.caterer.com/jobs/in-london",
  "jobId":             "107379957",
  "jobUrl":            "https://www.caterer.com/job/commi-chef/novotel-london-brentford-job107379957",
  "sourceSite":        "caterer.com",
  "title":             "Commi Chef",

  // ── JobPosting JSON-LD ──
  "description":       "<p>We are looking for a passionate Commi Chef to join our team at Novotel London Brentford…</p>",
  "datePosted":        "2026-05-20T14:32:18.000Z",
  "validThrough":      "2026-06-30T14:32:18.000Z",
  "employmentType":    "FULL_TIME",
  "industry":          "Hospitality, Hospitality-Restaurants and Catering",
  "directApply":       true,
  "jobLocationType":   null,
  "applicantLocationRequirements": [],

  // ── Employer ──
  "employer": {
    "name":            "Novotel London Brentford",
    "url":             "https://www.caterer.com/jobs/novotel-london-brentford?cmpId=…",
    "logoUrl":         "https://www.caterer.com/CompanyLogos/…novotel.png"
  },

  // ── Location ──
  "location": {
    "text":            "Brentford, London, GB",
    "locality":        "Brentford",
    "region":          "London",
    "postalCode":      null,
    "country":         "GB",
    "lat":             51.48717,
    "lng":             -0.30957
  },

  // ── Salary (often HOURLY for hospitality) ──
  "salary": {
    "rawText":         "£14.80 per hour",
    "min":             14.80,
    "max":             null,
    "currency":        "GBP",
    "period":          "hour"
  },

  // ── Apply flow ──
  "applyUrl":          "https://www.caterer.com/job/commi-chef/novotel-london-brentford-job107379957",
  "applyType":         "internal",

  "scrapedAt":         "2026-05-21T20:25:31.012Z"
}

Apply flow — what applyUrl and applyType mean

directApply	applyType	applyUrl	Meaning
true	"internal"	= jobUrl	Caterer hosts a one-click apply form on the job page itself.
false	"external"	null	External recruiter ATS (e.g. the hotel chain's careers portal). Open jobUrl in a browser and click Apply to be redirected.
missing	"unknown"	null	JSON-LD didn't surface the flag. Treat the same as "external".

Practical rule of thumb: ≈ 60–70 % of Caterer.com listings are directApply: true.

Notes & limitations

• Hourly salaries are common. Unlike most UK job boards where £-per-annum dominates, Caterer.com has a healthy mix of hourly rates. The structured salary.period: "hour" field captures that — use it for accurate per-hour analysis.
• Apify Residential GB is mandatory for the per-job detail fetch.
• employmentType fill is HIGHER on Caterer than on general boards (≈ 85%) — hospitality employers tend to declare PART_TIME / FULL_TIME more reliably because shift structure matters more in the industry.
• jobLocationType rarely populated. Hospitality is overwhelmingly on-site, so null is the norm.
• No radius-based filter. Use a tighter where= location instead.
• No maximum-salary filter. Only minimum (?salary=N).

FAQ

Which Caterer.com URLs work? Two types: listing URLs (/jobs/in-london, /jobs/chef/in-london, /jobs/{company-slug}-jobs) which auto-paginate, and direct detail URLs (/job/{title-slug}/{org-slug}-job{id}) which scrape one row each.

Why is my salary rate £12 instead of £25,000? Hospitality jobs are often paid hourly. The salary.period field is the source of truth: "hour" = hourly rate, "annum" = annual salary, "day" = daily rate, "week" = weekly. The min/max numbers are in the unit indicated by period. For a hospitality dataset analysis, group by period first.

Does this actor return chef-specific roles only? No — Caterer.com covers all hospitality verticals: kitchen (chefs, kitchen porter, sous-chef), front-of-house (waitstaff, host, sommelier), management (restaurant manager, GM, F&B), events (event coordinator, banquet manager), hotel-specific (front desk, housekeeping, concierge), and adjacent roles (bar staff, pastry, butcher). Add ?what={role} to the query string for narrower keyword filtering.

What does each dataset-item charge cover? One hospitality job row with all 14 JSON-LD fields plus the structured salary band (with period correctly identifying hourly vs annual) and structured location (lat/lng). maxItems is per-listing-URL.

Support

• Bugs / feature requests — open an issue on the GitHub repo
• Custom exports / tailored fields — drop a note via the Apify Store contact form
• Other actors — see my Apify Store profile

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⚠️ Disclaimer

This Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Caterer.com or any of its parent / sister companies. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners.

The scraper extracts only publicly visible hospitality job postings from Caterer.com — no login, no CAPTCHA solving, no credential forgery. The actor uses a conservative concurrency cap (default 4 parallel requests) to avoid burdening Caterer's infrastructure.

Users are responsible for:

• Complying with Caterer.com's Terms of Service
• Following UK GDPR + your jurisdiction's data-protection laws when storing or processing scraped postings
• Not contacting candidates listed by employers in scraped postings
• Not republishing scraped data in a way that competes commercially with Caterer.com

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