Healthy eating
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UK restaurants and pubs could be approaching a "tipping point" on the issue of displaying nutritional information - including calorific content - on menus, as it emerged that two-thirds of diners want to be better informed before ordering food.
Posted: 17 October 2011 | 12:49
Compass Group has seen sales of 1% milk soar as health and nutrition continues to stay high on the public agenda. The catering giant, which buys 25...
Posted: 14 October 2011 | 12:28
Elior has signed up to six of the Government's Responsibility Deal pledges, including a commitment to salt reduction and the removal of artificial trans fats...
Posted: 14 October 2011 | 11:42
The School Food Trust (SFT) has been recognised by the Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH) for its work on children's food. The charity won the...
Posted: 12 October 2011 | 16:34
The five-year contracts at Highdown School and Sixth Form in Reading; Leigh Technology Academy in Dartford; Longfields Academy, Wilmington Academy, and special school Milestone Academy, all in Kent; and a three-year deal at Stockley Academy in Middlesex, gives Cucina access to almost 7,000 new customers.
Posted: 27 September 2011 | 11:37
Healthy eating choices have been hampered by the recession, according to research by contract catering group Westbury Street Holdings (WSH). Almost a quarter of parents surveyed (22%) said that the recession had reduced their ability to make healthy eating choices for their child.
Posted: 27 September 2011 | 11:15
Independent catering group CH&Co has launched a range of calorie-counted sandwiches and salads as part of its Wellbeing Being Well healthy eating campaign. The new range of 10 sandwiches and five salads will be available in 50 of the caterer's 140 restaurants nationwide from today.
Posted: 05 September 2011 | 12:22
Fast-food chain McDonald's will start introducing calorie information to menus throughout all of its 1,200 UK restaurants, the UK Department of Health has announced. McDonald's move is a result of its commitment to the calorie labelling pledge as part of the Responsibility Deal.
Posted: 05 September 2011 | 10:27
Proposals to introduce a fat tax on unhealthy foods to address the UK's mounting obesity crisis have come under fire from industry figures and suppliers. Last week, a series of articles published in medical journal the Lancet predicted that over the next 20 years...
Posted: 01 September 2011 | 12:07
The School Food Trust has made six new appointments as it prepares to complete its move into the third sector. Experts in health, local government and marketing have taken up seats on the board as the trust sets out to continue its work as a charity.
Posted: 10 August 2011 | 17:15
Independent education caterer Alliance in Partnership (AiP) has added a Worcester primary school to its burgeoning portfolio of contracts in the Midlands. Worth £315,000, the three-year deal kicks off at Cherry Orchard primary school at the start of the new academic year in September.
Posted: 02 August 2011 | 11:52
Calorie labelling on menus does little to deter customers from choosing more fattening options, research in New York has found. Only a minority of people, about one in six, pays attention to calorie information on menus when eating at fast-food outlets such as McDonald's or KFC...
Posted: 27 July 2011 | 11:53
Caterer and Hotelkeeper recently brought together a selection of industry experts to discuss the issues and benefits of aligning hospitality businesses to the Public Health Responsibility Deal. Janie Stamford reports
Posted: 25 July 2011 | 11:33
This award recognises the company that has shown the greatest commitment and taken the most innovative steps towards developing food that meets the growing demand for healthier, nutritional eating. And in this, the Hesley Group has certainly proved itself.
Posted: 15 July 2011 | 16:31
The Government has revealed it has no intention of introducing nutritional standards in academies and free schools, despite pressure from local authority caterers. Sandra Russell told the LACA conference she had received a letter from Sarah Teather, minister of state for children and families.
Posted: 15 July 2011 | 11:07
With a national focus on health, ever more operators are signing up to the Public Health Responsibility Deal and volunteering nutritional information. Glynn Davis reports on the help available to make menu labelling a reality
Posted: 30 June 2011 | 17:44
Charlton House has introduced a new type of rapeseed oil into its staff restaurants under the caterer's Wellbeing Being Well healthy eating initiative.
Managing director Caroline Fry said...
Posted: 28 June 2011 | 11:19
Nutritional standards need to be enforced and made mandatory in academies and free schools, according to the Local Authority Caterers Association (LACA). LACA members want to know why nutritional guidelines that are mandatory in state primary and secondary schools do not apply to academies and free schools.
Posted: 13 May 2011 | 11:55
Healthy fast-food chain Pod is to open 16 new sites across London by 2013, having secured £3.5m of funding from investors. The company currently has nine sites in the capital and annualised turnover approaching £10m.
Posted: 11 May 2011 | 11:09
Catermasters is going for gold and has sponsored an athlete from Leamington Spa, where the company...
Posted: 09 May 2011 | 17:22
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