Contract catering
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High-end caterer Searcys has parted company with the Army and Navy Club in Pall Mall after just six months. Following a mutual agreement by both organisations, the Army and Navy Club has opted to revert to an in-house catering operation...
Posted: 24 January 2012 | 15:50
Jan Matthews, head of catering for the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games (LOCOG), will take to the podium for the Arena Savoy Lecture, it has been announced. The Arena Savoy Lecture is scheduled to take place on Tuesday 20 March.
Posted: 24 January 2012 | 12:49
Keith Prowse, Compass Group's specialist hospitality division, has been awarded a lucrative five-year contract to deliver overseas tours and UK hospitality programmes at the Championships, Wimbledon. The new appointment, which starts in 2013, was awarded by the All England Club.
Posted: 24 January 2012 | 11:10
Harrogate International Centre was the big winner at the Kudos "K" Awards, after two of its staff members picked up the employee and general manager of the year titles at the company's annual awards event, held last week. Kudos, the food and venue arm of the Crown Group, named Leah White its employee of the year.
Posted: 24 January 2012 | 10:45
The Crown Group's Kudos Cafés business has won a £12m contract with Warwick District Council to deliver food and venue management services at four venues in Royal Leamington Spa. The six-year deal sees Kudos provide a new food offer at the Restaurant in the Park, renamed Jephson's Brasserie, and the Aviary Cafe, both located in Jephson Gardens.
Posted: 24 January 2012 | 10:24
Hospitality Action is calling on its physically fit supporters to take part in a cycle ride from London to Paris this summer as the charity endeavours to raise £20,000 for those in need. Travelling between two of the world's most fascinating cities, participants will leave London on 29 June.
Posted: 23 January 2012 | 18:19
Independent contract caterer Pabulum has won a two-year deal with Wembley High Technology College. Worth in excess of £450,000, the contract was won as a result of Pabulum's commitment to ethical catering.
Posted: 23 January 2012 | 16:24
BaxterStorey has scooped a sweet deal to provide staff dining at gum and jellies manufacturer Haribo. Believed to be worth in excess of £100,000, the two-year contract will see BaxterStorey cater for 550 Haribo employees at its UK head office in Pontefract, West Yorkshire.
Posted: 23 January 2012 | 16:15
Police have begun an investigation into allegations that food served by Eurest at a London crown court were spiked with urine. The advocates' lounge in Snaresbrook Crown Court was closed after police were contacted when judges and barristers complained the food smelled "a bit off".
Posted: 23 January 2012 | 12:10
The Grant SV100 immersion circulator is more versatile than a water bath as it clamps onto any suitable sized pot, so we can use it in a smaller container for service, but if larger amounts are required we can simply clamp it to a larger container.
Posted: 20 January 2012 | 18:19
Mark Blunt has just launched his franchise of Jasper's Corporate Catering in Manchester. Janie Stamford found out what the new role involves
Posted: 20 January 2012 | 16:47
Pride Catering has named Kevin Pyatt as its new operations director. He joins from the National Trust where he held a senior regional management position with responsibility for hospitality services in the South-east, and prior to that he gained experience at a Hampshire caterer working in B&I...
Posted: 20 January 2012 | 16:26
Consumers are certainly tightening their belts, and may even have resolved to drink less in 2012, but one luxury it seems we can no longer contemplate cutting back on is coffee. Since 2005, the branded coffee chain market has doubled and is now estimated to be worth £2.1b according to Allegra Strategies.
Posted: 20 January 2012 | 14:38
There are always more environmental measures that it's possible to take, but they're not always practical or - more importantly - profitable. To give you a green start, Emily Manson has foraged for monthly measures that won't cost the earth
Posted: 20 January 2012 | 14:29
Figures that suggest some hospital trusts commit as little as 90p per meal, while some spend as much as £22.31 per patient per day, have been dismissed as misleading and inaccurate by industry professionals.
Data filed in the House of Commons library last week gave details of spending on food and drink in 2010-11.
Posted: 20 January 2012 | 12:17
There has been progress in closing the gender pay gap, but women are still some way of parity with their male colleagues. Emilie Bennetts examines equal pay legislation and how to avoid discrimination claims
Posted: 20 January 2012 | 12:14
Restaurants use a lot of energy. The flipside of that is that those businesses that look to address their energy usage head-on can not only do a great deal for the environment, but also save themselves considerable sums of money.
Posted: 20 January 2012 | 12:12
Compass Group has launched a new mix-and-match food offer aimed at customers looking for an easy approach to healthy eating at breakfast or lunchtime. The "whole + sum" concept is made up of three mix-and-match components, and no complete dish adds up to more than 500 calories.
Posted: 19 January 2012 | 13:53
Masterclass: Cheltenham Cheese Pudding –
Emily Watkins at the Kingham Plough puts artisan cheese in a traditional English recipe; Brits Abroad –
Antony Dubber works as the chef manager for the British Antarctic Survey in Antarctica. He explains why he feels privileged to be working in one of the coldest and remote locations on earth.
Posted: 18 January 2012 | 16:26
The School Food Trust (SFT) has issued new voluntary nutrition guidelines for pre-school children aimed at reducing obesity in under-fives. Nurseries, child-minders and other providers of early-years services now have a nationally-recognised source of information.
Posted: 17 January 2012 | 11:41
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