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Primary school children are choosing healthier lunches following the introduction of mandatory standards for school food, according to a new report by the School Food Trust (SFT). A national study carried out by the SFT found that the lunches taken by pupils in 2009 were healthier than those of children four years earlier,
Posted: 11 February 2010 | 12:12
Last week, we launched our School Meals Matter campaign in association with the Local Authority Caterers Association. Its aims are to call on the new government to commit to continued funding of school meals; and to galvanise hospitality operators to help ensure a pipeline of future customers and recruits by alerting school children to the pleasures of nutritious food and cooking.
Posted: 11 February 2010 | 10:03
Rob Rees, last week appointed chairman of the School Food Trust, is calling on school headteachers to adopt a lunchtime lock-in policy in a bid to encourage healthy eating habits. The former chef, who took over the role from television cook Prue Leith, said to the Independent...
Posted: 09 February 2010 | 12:17
Story of the week: Caterer and Hotelkeeper launched a campaign this week to gain a commitment from the incoming Government to support the school meals service and continue investment in the wellbeing of the nation’s children. In other news, chef and food campaigner Rob Rees ...
Posted: 05 February 2010 | 14:29
When it comes to improving the diet and thereby the health of the nation's children, we are all stakeholders. As parents, we wish to see our children achieve their full physical and mental potential. As taxpayers, we welcome the savings in NHS expenditure that a decrease in the rates of obesity...
Posted: 05 February 2010 | 11:41
Beverley Baker, chairman of the Local Authority Caterers Association (LACA), says we must safeguard the school meals service "LACA is delighted to have the support of Caterer and Hotelkeeper for this high-profile campaign to draw the attention of the incoming Government ...
Posted: 04 February 2010 | 17:09
The School Food Trust has awarded a Doncaster primary school £5,000 in recognition of its efforts to promote healthy school lunches. Bentley New Village Primary School received the cheque in a special assembly attended by Civic Mayor for Doncaster, Ros Jones as part of the SFT’s ‘Million Meals ...
Posted: 04 February 2010 | 16:35
This week Caterer and Hotelkeeper launches a campaign to gain a commitment from the incoming Government to support the school meals service and continue investment in the wellbeing of the nation’s children.
Posted: 04 February 2010 | 13:08
The School Meals Matter campaign, in association with the Local Authority Caterers Association (LACA), is designed to promote the importance of healthy, nutritious school meals and keep school meals provision at the top of the political agenda.
Posted: 04 February 2010 | 11:20
Chef and food campaigner Rob Rees has been appointed as the new chair of the School Food Trust (SFT), taking over from Prue Leith who is retiring after three years in the role. Rees, who took over the two-year post on Monday, said he knew he wanted the job as soon as he heard that Leith...
Posted: 01 February 2010 | 17:31
Story of the week: Spanish celebrity chef Ferran Adrià dominated the news this week with the announcement at Madrid Fusion that he is to close his three-Michelin-starred restaurant El Bulli for two years. Still on the theme of iconic chefs, French patissier-chocolatier Pierre Herme...
Posted: 29 January 2010 | 16:01
Host, the independent contract caterer run by entrepreneur Jerry Brand, has won three new contracts with a total value in excess of £3m. The first of two new education wins is a five-year deal at Box Hill School in Dorking, Surrey which sees Host take over the £450,000 a year contract ...
Posted: 28 January 2010 | 17:33
A London council is considering the implementation of a ‘No Fry Zone’ around its 65 primary schools in a bid to curb the growing obesity trend in the region’s children. Lewisham Council is to meet later this month to discuss the proposal after a report found that a quarter of 10-year-olds...
Posted: 27 January 2010 | 16:13
‘Grow your own school dinners’ is Mayor of London Boris Johnson’s suggestion to help tackle childhood obesity in the capital. Nearly one in four children in the city is classed as obese. This figure rises to one in three by the time they are aged 11. Fast food exclusion zones around schools...
Posted: 26 January 2010 | 10:41
Hertfordshire Catering has signed up the Saracens rugby union team to help convert more school children to the benefits of having a school meal. The St. Albans team is collaborating with Hertfordshire county council’s school meals provider for 12 days of competitions aimed at encouraging...
Posted: 25 January 2010 | 13:18
Just 1% of packed lunches for primary schoolchildren come up to the nutritional standards set for school meals in England, a new report has found. A team of researchers from Leeds University examined 1,300 schoolchildren's lunchboxes and found that healthy foods like fruit and vegetables...
Posted: 12 January 2010 | 10:29
Many in hospitality will have greeted New Year's Eve's midnight chimes not with Champagne and singalongs, but with an almighty sigh of relief. A decade that opened to the crackle of Millennium fireworks closed to the plaintive sound of operators thanking their lucky stars...
Posted: 11 January 2010 | 15:23
A round-up of the weekend's news affecting the hospitality industry. News includes: Older pupils still shunning healthy meals; TGI Friday’s UK franchise to be auctioned; Anglian Water seeks operator for £50m hotel at Leith Shore; Scottish tourism lacks innovation and more...
Posted: 11 January 2010 | 10:57
Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver has won a prestigious US award for his efforts to tackle the obesity epidemic affecting much of the developed world. The 2010 TED Prize, a $100,000 (£62,445) grant and “an opportunity to realise a wish to change the world”, was awarded to Oliver...
Posted: 08 January 2010 | 16:13
Story of the week: It’s been the longest cold spell in 30 years, and Caterer reports on a number of hotels that have provided solace for motorists stranded by the heavy snowfall. Hotels reported buoyant bookings over Christmas and New Year and a year-on-year improvement in business...
Posted: 08 January 2010 | 15:27
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