Scoring methodology
This page describes exactly how every provider is scored. The method is public so that anyone, including a competitor, can check it.
Methodology version 2.1.0 · 171 providers scored
Six criteria and their weights
Data completeness
15%How complete the provider's profile is: logo, website, description, address, business ID, contact details, founding year, headcount, at least three sample menu items, at least one photo and at least one certification.
Calculation: Twelve checks, each either satisfied or not. The score is the proportion satisfied.
Service breadth
15%How many different needs the provider can serve: cuisines, dietary capabilities, headcount range and the number of postal areas covered.
Calculation: Cuisines 30%, dietary capabilities 30%, capacity range 25%, area count 15%.
Operational stability
30%Age, size and whether the company is still active in the business register. An established operator is a lower risk for a corporate buyer.
Calculation: Age 45% (capped at 15 years), headcount 40%, a recent business-register filing 15%.
Geographic coverage
10%How much of the metro area the provider serves. A provider covering the whole region scores full marks.
Calculation: The share of the metro's cities that the provider serves.
Transparency
20%Whether the provider publishes price level, menu, lead times and sustainability information, and whether contact details are findable.
Calculation: Six checks. Weighted deliberately high: hidden pricing is a real cost to the buyer.
Customer signals
10%Reviews, public client references, press mentions and awards collected from public sources, plus response speed to quote requests once we have measured it.
Calculation: Review volume 30%, average rating 30%, client references 20%, press and awards 20%. Where response speed is known, it forms 15% of the final component.
The composite score is the weighted sum of these six, rounded to a whole number between 0 and 100.
How data is verified
Company data, name, business ID, legal form, address and the most recent register filing, comes from YTJ, the joint service of the Finnish Patent and Registration Office and the Tax Administration. Service data is collected from the provider's own public website.
We do not score taste or food quality. We cannot assess either impartially or reproducibly, so we do not claim to. The scoring measures what is publicly checkable: what a provider can do, for whom, where and on what notice, and how openly it says so.
Every profile shows the date its data was last verified. Stale data is a defect, and we correct it on request.
Editorial process
Listing is free and ranking is not for sale. There is no mechanism by which a provider can pay for visibility, highlighting or position. If we ever introduce paid features, they will never affect scoring and they will be labelled plainly.
Every provider is scored by the same formula on the same day. We do not hand-adjust an individual provider's score. There is no branch, condition or bonus anywhere in the scoring code that recognises a specific company.
Where a provider does not fit the buyer's need, we route elsewhere. That is the whole point of the service: honest routing is the only thing that makes a recommendation worth anything.
Conflicts of interest
Ownership. This service is owned by Fyge Food Oy. The same owner holds a stake in one or more of the caterers listed here.
What that means in practice. A related provider is scored by exactly the same formula as everyone else. Its score is not lifted, its position is not protected, and it is not favoured in the match flow. If it does not fit your need, the match flow will not show it to you.
How you can check this. The weights and the calculation are described above, and every provider's score breakdown is public. You can recompute any provider's score from what is on this page.
Frequently asked questions
Can ranking be bought?+
No. Providers pay nothing to be listed and nothing for their position, and there is no paid placement of any kind. The ordering comes directly from the formula described on this page.
How is the data verified?+
Company data comes from the Finnish business register (YTJ.fi). Service data is collected from the provider's own public pages. Every profile shows the date its data was last checked.
What happens if data is wrong?+
A provider can request a correction through the contact form. We fix incorrect data and update the verification date. We do not remove a provider on request when the data is accurate.
Why does a provider score low?+
The most common reason is missing public information: no published pricing, menu or lead times. A low score does not mean poor food. It means a buyer cannot get what they need without making contact first.
Do the weights change?+
The weights are frozen at version 2.1.0. If they change, the version increments and the reason for the change is written onto this page.
Changelog
2.1.0
Added named tiers (Exceptional, Great, Good, Fair, Basic) alongside the composite score. Scores are low across the board because most providers publish little service data, so the bare number misreads as a failing grade. A tier is a fixed score band, versioned like the weights, and therefore as reproducible as the score it summarises. The weights did not change.
2.0.0
Version 1.0.0 was designed for roughly 25 hand-curated providers with complete profiles. The register produced 179 real companies instead, and almost none of them publish capacity, price or lead time. Three of the six factors were consequently near zero, meaning 60 per cent of the weight rested on factors that could not tell any two companies apart, and composites topped out at 26 of 100. The weights moved to what is actually observable: operational stability rose from 15 to 30 and now rests on trade register, prepayment register and employer register entries, which exist for every listed company and can be checked by anyone. Customer signals fell from 20 to 10 because no company has reviews yet. The factor stays so that it is live the day they do.