Food service
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Compass Group has seen revenue fall 4.5% but maintained flat operating profit for the six months to 31 March 2010. Revenues in the UK and Ireland were £897m, down from £939m for the same period in 2009.
Posted: 12 May 2010 | 11:24
Michelin-starred chef Nigel Haworth has joined BaxterStorey as consultant chef as the independent caterer seeks to strengthen its regional presence, Caterersearch can reveal. Haworth will work alongside two-Michelin-starred chef John Campbell to deliver BaxterStorey’s mentoring and training programme
Posted: 11 May 2010 | 13:57
Chamberlain's restaurant in London's Leadenhall market is part of a multi-faceted
business that includes a fish wholesaler, a filleting service, a restaurant and a catering
operation. Janie Stamford talks to executive head chef Matthew Marshall about his
passion for top quality ingredients, and how the strands of the business work together
Posted: 06 May 2010 | 16:35
Compass Group has bought French food service business Caterine Restauration. The French caterer, which specialises in the provision of services in the education and healthcare sectors, posted revenues of €41.8m (£35.8m) for the 12 months to 31 August 2009 with gross assets valued at €34m (£29m).
Posted: 05 May 2010 | 10:16
Harbour & Jones, Benugo and Rhubarb are among 20 companies chasing a multimillion-pound food and beverage contract at London’s iconic Royal Albert Hall.
The contract, concession and events caterers respectively have all confirmed that an expression of interest has been registered for the contract...
Posted: 29 April 2010 | 10:32
Don’t drop standards in the face of spending cuts, was the key message at the Hospital Caterers’ Association (HCA) conference in Blackpool last week.
Catering and hotel service managers within the NHS were encouraged to rise above the current pressures...
Posted: 22 April 2010 | 17:08
Education caterer Chartwells has been awarded a £1.6m contract extension at Sherborne Girls School in Dorset after a high achieving first year.Compass Group’s education division announced this week the signing of a new five-year deal...
Posted: 08 April 2010 | 12:00
With the School Lunch Grant due to cease in March 2011, what will the fallout be if the Government decides to stop funding school meals? Tom Vaughan reports. Doomsday' is a pessimistic word to use, but unfortunately necessary in the context. However unlikely the possibility of school food funding...
Posted: 05 April 2010 | 10:00
Standards for hospital food should be enshrined in law according to food policy pressure group Sustain, after failed attempts to improve it is found to have cost taxpayers more than £50m in the last 10 years. A new report by Sustain entitled Yet more hospital food failure… says legislation is the only way...
Posted: 01 April 2010 | 14:12
A planning application has been submitted for a Four Seasons Hotel and Residences at Heron Plaza in the City of London. The 43-storey development – known as Four Seasons Hotel and Residence London at Heron Plaza – will comprise 190 hotel bedrooms and suites, 120 branded residences...
Posted: 31 March 2010 | 10:32
Pizza delivery giant Domino's is expected to reveal an 11% boost in like-for-like sales for the first six weeks of the year in a trading statement ahead of its annual general meeting on Tuesday. Although the snow hampered deliveries from some stores, the overall effect was positive as the cold weather...
Posted: 29 March 2010 | 13:11
An additional 600,000 children could be eligible for free school meals, according to plans announced by the Department for Children, Schools and Families.
From September, primary school children from low-income families, who are receiving Working Tax Credit, will have access to free school meals...
Posted: 26 March 2010 | 11:39
Police are continuing to investigate the disappearance of chef Claudia Lawrence, a year after she went missing. The York University chef is thought to have disappeared at around 5.30am on 18 March 2009, after she left home with no money, cards or passport to walk three miles to her job...
Posted: 22 March 2010 | 18:26
The publication of the Nutrition Action Plan in 2007 highlighted the steps that needed to be taken to combat the rising scourge of malnutrition among the elderly. While there is still a long way to go, Janet Harmer reports on some of the care homes and local authorities that improving their catering offer for the elderly.
Posted: 18 March 2010 | 16:42
Compass Group has announced the appointment of Nick Potter to the role of managing director of its business and industry arm Restaurant Associates. Potter will report to business and industry sector managing director Jason Leek when he takes up his new position in April.
Posted: 11 March 2010 | 17:40
Sodexo Prestige has won a £5m contract to provide event and banqueting services for at number of venues for Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums (TWAM). Sodexo will provide locally-themed menus at the Discovery Museum, Laing Art Gallery, South Shields Museum and Art Gallery, and Segedunum Roman Fort and Museum. This is in addition to the Great North Museum: Hancock, for which Sodexo won the contract last May.
Posted: 10 March 2010 | 10:46
Story of the week: Industry figures have paid tribute to Rose Gray, the co-founder of the acclaimed River Café in London, who has died aged 71 after a prolonged battle with cancer. It was Hotelympia 2010 this week, and to round off the five-day event, the godfathers of the British culinary scene...
Posted: 05 March 2010 | 16:10
A school cook from Cheshire has beaten hundreds of competitors to win the Sodexo Chef of the Year title in a contest held at Hotelympia. Andrew Willcox, a chef at Cheadle Hulme School in Cheshire, was one of 10 finalists representing Sodexo’s healthcare, education, defence and corporate services divisions.
Posted: 05 March 2010 | 11:21
Providing nutritional information in workplace canteens has helped to improve the health of staff at Unilever, the consumer goods giant has revealed.
The company is to offer all 7,500 UK employees advice on better diets and exercise after a workplace trial involving 175 employees last year...
Posted: 03 March 2010 | 11:35
The food and service management sector saw turnover increase in 2009 to £4.2b, according to the annual survey of the British Hospitality Association’s Food and Service Management Forum. The forum chair Phil Hooper, who announced the results of the BHA’s 21st survey at Hotelympia yesterday...
Posted: 03 March 2010 | 11:21
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