School meals provider Chartwells, part of Compass Group UK & Ireland, has won a three year catering contract worth £4.5 million by Derby City Council.
Chartwells will deliver school catering services to 5,700 pupils across 32 primary and special schools in Derby city.
Chartwells works with 13 local authorities across the UK, catering for thousands of students and serving 57 million quality meals a year to pupils throughout the country.
John Carlin, business director for Chartwells, said: "We are thrilled that Derby City Council has chosen Chartwells as its school meals provider and we look forward to working with them to encourage children to eat school meals.
"We have an expert team of chefs and nutritionists who are dedicated to developing a range of tasty nutritious meals which are tempting to school pupils of all ages and which we hope will get top marks from Derby City school children."
Councillor Evonne Williams, cabinet member for children and young people, added: "The new contract for providing meals in Schools is seeing new menus created and daily 'cooked from scratch' meals.
"Around 30 schools and four children's centres are benefitting and our staff have been retained. We are also able to start work on kitchen improvements working with schools and Chartwells, I am pleased with progress and the benefit this has for Derby's pupils."