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An easy route to 'not very qualified'?I have been working since September with a group of level 3 candidates on the long-awaited new vocational qualifications. Care home caterers 'need separate NVQ'Care home caterers need their own training qualifications, according to Derek Johnson, vice-chairman of the National Association of Care Caterers (NACC). Robert Rees: Policy makerFormer chef and restaurateur Robert Rees now devotes his life to food education, training and promotion. Janet Harmer investigates the achievements that have brought him an MBE in the New Year Honours Date set for Scotland’s second Emerging Talent Conference
About the awards
Roupell joins QESTTim Roupell, founder of sandwich maker Daily Bread, has become a trustee of the Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust (QEST).
Employers slow to grab initiative over skills gap
FishWorks sets up permanent cookery school
Academic snobbery threatens practical skills
Initial Style Conferences sold for £325m
Jamie's Fifteen Cornwall gets £1m cash injection
Widley named Acorn ScholarKelly Widley, front-of-house manager at the Berry Head hotel in Brixham, Devon, is the 2006 Acorn Scholar.
Letters: 24 November 2005 Pub tenants need protection against financial disaster
We're regularly approached by the owners of businesses in our sector who have problems making enough profit, and we're pleased to assist them. However, we're becoming increasingly frustrated with such enquiries from businesses that are (or are effectively) pub leases.
The usual issues are twofold. First, that the gross profit percentage afforded by the undiscounted beer prices isn't adequate to pay the overheads of the business, and second, that the rent charged by the landlord is way out of line with industry norms, and is often so high as to make the business unviable.
What can we do here other than advise a quick exit if the landlord won't listen, empathise, and work with the tenant towards a successful outcome for both parties?
When we do have to advise an exit, we then often find that the landlord has refused to allow the keen entrepreneur to participate unless they sign pers Hospitality's tight purse drives Government funding elsewhereThe hospitality industry has missed out on a multimillion-pound Government training initiative after failing to put its money where its mouth is. Nando's wins training award
Master motivatorsMotivational training can take many weird and wonderful forms, but the benefits to workforce morale - and therefore staff retention - can make it well worth the investment, says Kirstie Redford The benefits of craft training
Friday Wrap: 21 October 2005 It’s been a good week for fish.
Monday saw a £30m offer for Loch Fyne Restaurants from private equity firm Hutton Collins, while on Wednesday the FishWorks café chain netted a 51% increase in sales for 2004.
Not such good news for poultry, though, with the spectre of bird flu looming. Suppliers, however, are insisting that there are no immediate prospects of shortages .
Meanwhile KFC made its biggest nod to the health lobby since dropping the “fried” from its name, announcing that it will no longer add salt to its fries.
Plenty of other shake-ups elsewhere in the industry as well.
The £52m sale of NVQ training is disastrous for chefs
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