Food service
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Food design and event management company Tapenade has won a £300,000 contract for this year's Royal International Air Tattoo. The company will provide meals for around 5,500 covers over three days at the world's largest military air show, taking place at RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire from 15-17 July.
Posted: 26 April 2011 | 10:34
Catering Academy has won a three-year deal with William Brookes secondary school in Much Wenlock, Shropshire. The £900,000 contract sees the national independent operator deliver catering services to round 930 students and 110 teaching and support staff...
Posted: 26 April 2011 | 10:34
Sodexo has expanded its Irish business in Ireland with the acquisition of Zehnacker Ireland for an undisclosed sum. A provider of facilities management services for nursing homes and other healthcare facilities, it will be renamed Sodexo Zehnacker Healthcare. The company, which employs 25 people...
Posted: 26 April 2011 | 10:34
Alliance in Partnership (AiP) has secured two contract extensions worth over £1m combined. Arrow Vale High School in Redditch, Worcestershire has worked with AiP for four years and has renewed its contract for a further three.
Posted: 19 April 2011 | 17:17
Over fifty entries have been shortlisted for the 2011 Scottish Food & Drink Excellence Awards, it was announced today. The Food Tourism award shortlists G&G Sinclair - Craigie's Farm Deli & Café, Iain Burnett, the Highland Chocolatier and the Scottish Chocolate Centre and the...
Posted: 19 April 2011 | 16:28
HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) is doubling its efforts to crack down on tax-evading labour providers, including hospitality businesses. An extra 100 officers will be brought in to offer free health checks to businesses to help them use legitimate labour providers. Those found guilty of tax evasion could...
Posted: 19 April 2011 | 15:15
Compass Group has won a £26m contract to rejuvenate the catering operations at Edinburgh Zoo. The caterer has been tasked with ensuring the food offer becomes a key part of the visitor experience as part of the 10-year deal, while also providing a more commercial focus for the Zoo's catering operation.
Posted: 19 April 2011 | 14:55
VisitEngland's Enjoy England Awards for Excellence 2011 have named London's Langham hotel and the Bay Tree hotel in Oxfordshire as its top hotels. The Langham took the award for large hotel following a recent £80m rolling refurbishment programme. Managing director Katie Benson...
Posted: 18 April 2011 | 16:55
The British team for La Coupe du Monde de la Pâtisserie is looking for the best pastry chefs in the country to represent the UK in January 2013. Applicants are asked to include their CV, an explanation on what motivates them to compete with the British team, and which discipline in which they would like to demonstrate their skills.
Posted: 18 April 2011 | 11:37
London catering firm Vacherin has named Lukasz Pancewicz as its first Barista of the Year. Pancewicz was the overall winner of the coffee making competition which was held at the Illy training centre in the Business Design Centre earlier this week.
Posted: 14 April 2011 | 09:57
Westbury Street Holdings has restructured its executive team in a move that sees Noel Mahony step up to the role of chief executive of its business and industry division BaxterStorey. Mahony, who won the Contract Caterer of the Year Catey award in 2009, joined BaxterStorey in 2004...
Posted: 12 April 2011 | 13:00
Compass Group continues to demonstrate its deep pockets with two more acquisitions. The world's largest contract caterer has bought Vipul Facility Management (VFM) and Ultimate Hospitality Services (UHS) in India for undisclosed sums.
Posted: 11 April 2011 | 10:15
Café-to-deli operator Benugo has added the Science Museum, London, to its burgeoning portfolio of museum contracts in a deal worth £25m in sales. The five-year contract was won from incumbent operator Elior’s Digby Trout business, and will see WSH-owned Benugo invest more than £1m in...
Posted: 08 April 2011 | 12:00
In this week's Caterer and Hotelkeeper magazine... Chefs with allergies How does it affect their work? Top chefs share their own...
Posted: 07 April 2011 | 16:37
Compass Group, Mitchells & Butlers and Marstons were the big winners at last week's Menu Innovation and Development Awards (MIDAS), each picking up two awards. The MIDAS awards, held at the Renaissance Hotel, London, were...
Posted: 30 March 2011 | 11:26
Central Bedfordshire has become the second local authority in six months to scrap a centralised school meals service and hand responsibility back to the individual schools. Croydon Council announced last August that it planned to cease its central school meal management at the conclusion of...
Posted: 29 March 2011 | 12:40
Westbury Street Holdings (WSH), the parent company behind catering firms BaxterStorey and Benugo, has seen trade soar by 19% to £362m for the 12 months to 31 December 2010.
Posted: 28 March 2011 | 12:28
Compass Group has expanded its relationship with the University of Warwick with a new £2.25m retail contract. Following the successful operation of its Costa Coffee cafés in the university's main campus and business school, Compass will now also manage...
Posted: 25 March 2011 | 10:26
Compass Group UK and Ireland has appointed Retail Eyes to monitor customer service in its food service franchises in retail outlets. The programme will comprise monthly mystery shopping visits to more than 250 supermarket locations where Compass runs catering operations.
Posted: 24 March 2011 | 16:19
Food imported from Japan is to be screened for the presence of radioactive material. The Food Standards Agency (FSA) is working with port health authorities and other Government departments to ensure that any food imports from Japan...
Posted: 24 March 2011 | 10:20
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