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Contract caterer BaxterStorey won recognition at the Business Commitment to the Environment (BCE) annual awards this week. The Reading-based caterer scooped a Major Commendation in BCE’s Environmental Leadership, one of 12 companies recognised for their outstanding ...
Posted: 03 July 2009 | 11:59
Hospitality operators have been urged to stress the economic importance of the industry to politicians and parliamentary candidates in the run up to the next general election, Speaking at the British Hospitality Association annual luncheon in London yesterday to guests including London Mayor ...
Posted: 25 June 2009 | 11:24
Springboard's Awards for Excellence celebrate what a great place the hospitality industry is to work. The 2009 awards, held at the Guoman Tower Hotel, London last November, saw The Best Regional Initiative awarded to a collaboration between Compass Group's ESS Offshore division and Fraserburgh Academy in Aberdeen.
Posted: 19 June 2009 | 16:41
Caterer's 23rd set of Acorn Award winners was brought together last week for two days of presentations, team-building, networking... and one or two slightly silly games
Posted: 19 June 2009 | 00:14
Peter Avis of Babylon at Roof Gardens in London has been named the Academy of Food & Wine’s inaugural UK Restaurant Manager of the Year. Avis, who was crowned the winner of the competition at a dinner held at the Langham hotel in London last night, beat five other finalists to the title.
Posted: 16 June 2009 | 12:54
Yohann Jousselin, head sommelier at the Hotel du Vin in Winchester, has been named the UK’s Young Sommelier of the Year. Jousselin, who was runner-up in the UK Sommelier of the Year competition earlier this year, beat five other finalists to win the title. Second place went to Erica Laler ...
Posted: 15 June 2009 | 12:45
The hospitality industry was well represented in the 2009 Queens’ Birthday Honours List, including two Knighthoods. Veteran contract caterer Garry Hawkes CBE, was awarded a Knighthood for his services to business and to vocational training. Hawkes, who was until recently chairman of ...
Posted: 15 June 2009 | 12:34
A round-up of the weekend's news affecting the hospitality industry. News includes: Lloyds makes £450m loss on Admiral Tavern; Reuben brothers make £48m bid for Premium Bars and Restaurants;
Fergus Henderson learns Eritrean cooking to support refugees; Premier Inn launches price war ...
Posted: 15 June 2009 | 10:27
The deadline for the RSPCA good business awards, which recognise ethical business approaches to animal welfare, is looming. The 2009 Hotel Cateys entry process is now in full swing as well. So to be considered for one of these prestigious awards, get your entry in now.
Posted: 12 June 2009 | 15:35
Three hospitality companies have made it into Business in the Community’s (BITC) newly-published, pan-industry Corporate Responsibility Index 2008. Launched in 1996 to help companies benchmark their environmental management and performance, the index ...
Posted: 10 June 2009 | 17:17
A restaurant located in a Gloucestershire shopping centre has been named The Good Food Guide’s Restaurant of the Year. Ronnies in Thornbury was presented with the award by Heston Blumenthal, at a ceremony held at the British Museum yesterday. Despite its everyday location ...
Posted: 10 June 2009 | 11:55
Time is running out to enter Caterer’s Excellence in Food & Drink Awards. The closing date for entries of 9 July is fast approaching, so if you want to enter one or more of the 18 categories that make up the awards, do so today. From these category winners (except the Kids’ awards), one product ...
Posted: 08 June 2009 | 10:39
There are just a few weeks left for pubs and restaurants to enter the RSPCA’s 2009 Good Business Awards, which recognise ethical business approaches to animal welfare. The charity is looking for operators that have set out to source their meat, fish and dairy from providers ...
Posted: 05 June 2009 | 07:00
Customer expectations are rising, competition is fierce and food service operators need a point of difference in their offering. Sourcing the right products is paramount, and at the Caterer and Hotelkeeper Excellence in Food & Drink Awards, we're proud to shine a light on products that deliver that bit extra in terms of taste, appearance and usability.
Posted: 04 June 2009 | 12:33
Three-Michelin-starred chef Heston Blumenthal was presented with the Special Award at the Craft Guild of Chefs Awards last night. Blumenthal, whose restaurant the Fat Duck was forced to close earlier this year due to a food-poisoning scare, was recognised for his ...
Posted: 02 June 2009 | 10:55
Marriott Hotels has spoken of its delight after being voted the greenest hotel chain in the UK in The Sunday Times ‘60 Best Green Companies’ list. The company, which is the only hospitality operator to appear in the list, ranked 17th and also scooped top prize in the category for ...
Posted: 26 May 2009 | 15:55
A round-up of the weekend's news affecting the hospitality industry. News includes: Novelli loses two restaurants in failed gastropubs; Ramada Jarvis looks to restructure or to sell some hotels; Marriott Hotels is the UK’s 17th greenest company; Oldham drinkers may have to queue and more ...
Posted: 26 May 2009 | 10:35
Luxury hotel group Von Essen has become the main sponsor for the Young Chef Young Waiter competition, which this year celebrates its 25th anniversary. Young Chef Young Waiter is an award for both front and back of house that is open for chefs and waiters aged 25 and under.
Posted: 25 May 2009 | 07:30
Having hung on by his fingertips last year after the disastrous Tchenguiz-gate, the game was finally up for Tim Clarke, chief executive of pub group Mitchells & Butlers, this week when another cunning debt swap turned out to be no where near as clever as a fox that has been to the university of cunningness.
Posted: 22 May 2009 | 15:45
Hosting this year’s Mobos – the awards celebrating music of black origin –will boost Glasgow’s economy by £3.6m as punters fill local hotels, bars and restaurants, experts have predicted. The move to take the Mobos outside London ...
Posted: 22 May 2009 | 07:30
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