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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
With pressure on all Government spending, school meals are struggling to fight for what limited resources are available. We put two industry heavyweights head-to-head to argue for and against their provision.
Posted: 02 May 2010 | 09:00
As the General Election campaign reaches its climax, we ask the three main parties what plans they have to help the UK's most important industry - yours
Posted: 29 April 2010 | 12:59
A round-up of the weekend's news affecting the hospitality industry. News includes: Little Chef reviews roll-out of Heston Blumenthal concept after boss quits; Mumbai's Oberoi hotel reopens after deadly 2008 attack; Costa expected to fuel Whitbread’s international expansion and more... ;
Posted: 26 April 2010 | 10:37
Eden Foodservice has become the first catering firm to be given the Silver accreditation Food for Life catering mark for a group contract by the Soil Association. The company has worked in partnership with Croydon Council to achieve the accreditation,...
Posted: 26 April 2010 | 10:15
Jamie Oliver plans to spend millions of pounds of his own money in a bid to improve food education and meals in primary schools, he has revealed. The healthy eating champion said he would set aside a percentage of profits from each of his companies to create a funding pot ...
Posted: 20 April 2010 | 11:36
With no clear idea how to address a downward trend in school meal uptake, we should look to labour-efficient models like those operated in Finland to fund school food, says FCSI education consultant Richard Wedgbury.
Posted: 16 April 2010 | 10:10
Education caterer Chartwells has kicked Avenance into touch on a lucrative contract at Rugby School, Warwickshire, Caterer has learned. Compass Group’s Chartwells is understood to have converted the prestigious contract ...
Posted: 15 April 2010 | 14:40
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
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
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
Story of the week: England's visitor economy can grow from £97b in 2010 to £147b and create 225,000 more jobs over the next decade, according to VisitEngland.
John Footman is to become the new chef at the Goose in Britwell Salome, which was forced to close ...
Posted: 19 March 2010 | 16:36
Story of the week: A massive fire broke out in a Shoreditch office block which houses a number of bars and restaurants yesterday morning. Owner of two bars affected by the fire, Jonathan Downey, told Caterer it won’t be back in business for at least 18 months.
Posted: 12 March 2010 | 15:39
Contract caterers are stepping up their support for the School Meals Matter campaign by presenting the petition to staff at schools and to parents of pupils. Simon James, managing director of Eden Foodservice, the education catering arm of Initial, has taken the campaign to his employees.
Posted: 11 March 2010 | 14:59
Accent Catering has been awarded a new 12-month rolling education contract at Harlesden Primary School in North London. The deal, worth £60,000 a year, sees the caterer provide lunches to the school's 150 pupils aged between three and 11 years old.
In a bid to encourage good take-up,
Posted: 05 March 2010 | 10:58
Efforts to improve the quality of school meals could all be in vain if canteens aren’t made fit for purpose, according to new research. An independent study, carried out on behalf of the School Food Trust (SFT) as part of its Canteen Rescue campaign launched today, found that poor quality canteens ...
Posted: 26 February 2010 | 10:28
With financial support from the government due to end next year, now is the time to help out the school meals programme, or risk wasting the work that has been done in the past five years to educate the young about healthy eating. Tom Vaughan reports.
Posted: 24 February 2010 | 14:43
If the multitude of quangos survives the next Government, the industry must have a greater influence on how they operate, says
British Hospitality Association chief executive Bob Cotton
Posted: 17 February 2010 | 14:32
Story of the week: Two major chef departures this week as rumours surround Cliveden and the news that Chris Horridge, star of the Great British Menu and head chef of the property’s Waldo’s restaurant, is to leave, while earlier in the week Michelin-starred chef Ryan Simpson – and his brigade – quit the Goose...
Posted: 12 February 2010 | 14:33
Bob Cotton, chief executive of the British Hospitality Association, is among the senior hospitality industry figures to voice their support for Caterer's School Meals Matter campaign. Cotton said he strongly supports the principles of the campaign, which calls on the post-election Government...
Posted: 12 February 2010 | 13:00
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