Food service
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An alliance of health professionals have expressed "deep concern" over the Government's decision to axe plans to extend free school meals provision to half a million primary school children from low-income families.
Posted: 22 June 2010 | 12:43
Guildford-based contractor Pride Catering has been awarded the Soil Association’s Food for Life Silver Catering Mark for its work at St Stephens School in Twickenham, which is also one of Food for Life’s flagship schools.
Posted: 21 June 2010 | 11:08
Annual turnover in the UK contract catering market grew fractionally by 0.8% to £4.165m in 2009, compared with £4.133b in 2008, according to the latest survey by the British Hospitality Association.
Posted: 15 June 2010 | 17:28
The number of meals served by UK contract caterers fell marginally by 0.7% to 1.607 billion in 2009, compared with 1.619 billion in 2008, according to the latest survey by the British Hospitality Association.
Posted: 15 June 2010 | 17:07
Food and labour costs as a percentage of turnover fell marginally in the contract catering industry during 2009, according to the latest survey by the British Hospitality Association.
Posted: 15 June 2010 | 16:24
During recession-hit 2009, food service management companies were obliged to take on greater commercial risks as profit and loss contracts grew by more than 75%.
Posted: 11 June 2010 | 15:38
The number of contract catering outlets in the UK fell by 2.3% to 16,583 in 2009, down from 16,983 in the previous year, according to the latest survey by the British Hospitality Association.
Posted: 11 June 2010 | 11:23
The number of employees in the UK contract catering market (calculated as full-time equivalents) dropped by 6.4% to 109,512 in 2009, down from 114,565 the previous year.
Posted: 10 June 2010 | 17:08
Secretary of State for Education Michael Gove has quashed plans made by the last Government to extend the free school meals pilot to a further 600,000 pupils this year. The LibDem-Conservative coalition Government’s future plans for free school meals pilots were outlined in a letter published yesterday
Posted: 09 June 2010 | 10:56
The Sodexo-operated restaurant in the Scottish parliament faces closure because too few MSPs eat there to make it a going concern, it has been claimed.
The Scottish Parliament Corporate Body is said to be considering the closure of the taxpayer-subsidised fine-dining restaurant...
Posted: 08 June 2010 | 17:57
Compass Group has today announced the US$65m (GB£45m) acquisition of Southeast Service Corporation (SSC), a US provider of soft support services operating in the education and business and industry sectors.
Posted: 08 June 2010 | 10:02
Sodexo has signed an 18-month contract with Thirlestane Castle to run events at the historic property in Scotland. The contract caterer's Prestige Scotland division will be responsible for growing both corporate and private events at the 13th-century castle in Berwickshire.
Posted: 04 June 2010 | 12:50
Contract caterer Lexington has installed former sales and marketing director Julia Edmonds as its new managing director, following a major boardroom reshuffle. Edmonds, who has worked for the company since 2007, replaces founder Mike Sunley...
Posted: 04 June 2010 | 11:00
Elior UK has appointed Dawn Gallimore as its new sales director, to focus on new business growth across the UK within its market sectors of contracts, concessions and related services.
Posted: 04 June 2010 | 10:47
Economic conditions are driving businesses to tighten their belts, and every wave of new employment legislation comes at a significant cost. So how does the food service industry ensure its contracts remain profitable while doing everything by the book?
Posted: 02 June 2010 | 16:35
After a tough year of recession, freezing weather and volcano ash, Brian Wisdom, chief executive of hospitality Sector Skills Council People 1st, reports on the state of the hospitality industry as the State of the Nation 2010 report is published.
Posted: 28 May 2010 | 16:13
When an industry sector comprises some 150,000 businesses, employs almost two million people and accounts for nearly 5% of the UK's economic output, it deserves to walk with a swagger in its step.
Posted: 28 May 2010 | 16:12
US contract caterer Aramark has awarded its team at the Food & Environment Research Agency (FERA) its Corporate Responsibility Award for 2009. The award, which forms part of Aramark's core corporate responsibility programme, aims to motivate and educate staff at its various client sites around the UK on environmental, sustainable and ethical issues
Posted: 19 May 2010 | 17:57
Sodexo has announced a four-year extension to its catering contract with the Scottish Government, worth in the region of £11.6m. The catering giant has provided services for the Scottish Government's 6,500 employees and visitors for the past nine years.
Posted: 18 May 2010 | 16:06
Contract catering is hospitality's best-kept secret, with sociable hours, excellent development opportunities and a choice of work venues that will make your head spin. Rosalind Mullen reports
Posted: 13 May 2010 | 10:57
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