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Pages 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | Previous | Next Restaurants curry favour to boost charityCharity Scope wants restaurants that sell curry to serve up some good karma with their kormas in October and help raise at least 500,000 for disabled children and their families. Restaurants gear up for big UNICHEF pushChefs and restaurateurs from around the country will unite on Monday night (7 February) to take part in UNICHEF, a massive fundraising effort which should see the industry raise a six-figure sum for victims of the Asian tsunami. The appeal has touched all parts of the sector's workforce, with staff and waiters agreeing to forego wages, suppliers donating food, and restaurateurs contributing a percentage of the night's takings. On top of this, UNICEF has devised a simple method to encourage customers to give extra donations on the night. Every participating restaurant will be sent up to 50 water bottle jackets, which can be slipped over the neck of water bottles served on the night. On each collar, there's an explanation of how customers can donate money to UNICEF's children's emergency appeal. A UNICEF spokeswoman said the idea was to encourage customers to make further donations - but in a low-key way, since many had already given generously to the tsunami relief In briefIrish Republic gets first Café Paul Rankin... Industry united by wish to helpMichel Roux Jnr, chef-proprietor, Le Gavroche
"We deal with food every day, so I think it is important that we do something to help these people rebuild their lives." We can all make a differenceThe tsunami that hit the Indian Ocean region on Boxing Day may have dropped from the front pages of our national newspapers, but that doesn't mean its hundreds of thousands of victims have been housed, fed or safeguarded against disease. UNICHEF - who has signed up?
1 Lombard Street , London EC3 Amaya , London SW1 Assaggi , London W2 Ayoush , London W1 Balls Brothers , 18 branches in London Barley Mow , Cambridgeshire Base One , London SW1 Beehive , Hertfordshire Benares , London W1 Bertorelli , four branches Best Western Monkbar hotel , North Yorkshire Blandford Street Restaurant , London W1 Bleeding Heart , London EC1 Blue Elephant , London SW6 Bramingham , Bedfordshire Bull , Buckin UNICHEF expects to raise six-figure sum for tsunami victims
How to helpTsunami appeals Tsunami victims relied on tourismWith the Christmas holiday behind us, January is traditionally a time to look forward and focus on the challenges the New Year holds. Normally, this first Caterer editorial of the year would contain a rousing call to arms, a reveille to hospitality workers still groggy from the festive season. This year, it is impossible to focus beyond the terrible events of the past weeks and their deadly legacy. Compared with the scale of suffering the world is currently struggling to bear, Olympic bids, Chip-and-PIN and licensing laws pale into insignificance. There's nothing Caterer can tell you about South Asia's Boxing Day disaster that you haven't already seen or read, horrified, on television or in the newspapers. As this week's issue went to press, the official number of lives lost to the tsunami stood at a mind-boggling 140,000, with as many as 200 Britons feared dead. But you will already know that. And you'll already know, too, that hundreds of thousands more lives could be l Industry response to Unichef soarsMore than 130 independent restaurants, pubs, restaurant groups and even contract caterers have signed up to UNICHEF, the restaurant fundraising initiative, which was launched in Caterer just two weeks ago. Restaurants flock to support UNICHEF
UNICHEF - calling all restaurantsOn 7 February restaurants across the UK will unite to support UNICEF's Asia Tsunami Children's Emergency Appeal. UNICHEF - calling all restaurants
On Monday 7 February restaurants across the UK will unite to support UNICEF's Asia Tsunami Children's Emergency Appeal.
The UNICHEF initiative will raise funds to provide clean drinking water and supplementary food to the victims of the Boxing Day disaster.
Participating venues will donate a percentage of their takings to support the relief work in the Indian Ocean.
The project is the idea of Philip Howard, chef-proprietor of the two-Michelin-star restaurant The Square, London.
To get involved with UNICHEF, e-mail Philip Howard at philh@unicef.org.uk , call Emma Raven at UNICEF on 020 7312 7680 or click here for an a Accor regional boss killed in Boxing Day Tsunami
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What the weekend papers sayA round-up of the weekend's news affecting the hospitality industry... Critical skillsThe world turned upside down when top food critics went into the kitchen to cook for an audience of chefs and restaurateurs - all in aid of Action Against Hunger. Emma Allen was there Crisis seeks catering staffCrisis, the national charity for the homeless, is appealing for chefs and catering staff with basic food hygiene certificates to volunteer to help out this Christmas. Table TalkA restaurant for anorexics opens in Berlin next month... Pages 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | Previous | Next |
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