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The past 12 months have provided a tough time for everyone within the hospitality industry. Daniel Thomas looks ahead to this year and tries to predict what is in store.
Posted: 07 January 2010 | 14:16
The Government’s Food 2030 strategy published yesterday by Defra has been welcomed by the School Food Trust (SFT), who praised its emphasis on school meals. The strategy highlights school lunches within a series of actions aimed at encouraging healthier, more sustainable diets...
Posted: 06 January 2010 | 12:17
School meal uptake in County Durham has reached 86% since the start of the Government’s £40m trial to provide free school lunches in two UK regions. The pilot scheme, launched in September, sees free school meals made available to primary school children in Durham and Newham in London.
Posted: 05 January 2010 | 14:32
The industry can look back on 2009 with relief that predictions of widespread carnage had been exaggerated. Many businesses have proved resourceful in the face of economic meltdown, but the year hasn't been without its casualties, as Daniel Thomas reports.
Posted: 23 December 2009 | 12:24
The School Food Trust (SFT) and North Somerset Council have joined forces for a new initiative which aims to encourage more than 4,000 school children to try school meals for just £1 a day. A six-week trial involving 20 local primary schools and the council’s school meal caterers Edwards & Ward...
Posted: 15 December 2009 | 14:30
Story of the week: Gordon Ramsay has saved one of his restaurants from potential liquidation by clearing its tax debt, it was reported this week, and the celebrity chef’s company, Gordon Ramsay Holdings, also announced that it is to close its Boxwood Café at London’s Berkeley hotel next April ...
Posted: 11 December 2009 | 16:03
Education health body the School Food Trust has welcomed the plans to extend eligibility among children for free school meals, announced in yesterday's Pre-Budget Report. The plans will mean that there is at least one universal free school meals pilot in each English region...
Posted: 10 December 2009 | 14:35
A new training kitchen part funded by a School Feast grant from the School Food Trust is to open at Southgate College in Enfield, North London, next week. Earlier this year the college put in a bid for a grant and it was awarded £98,000
Posted: 04 December 2009 | 12:03
A round-up of the weekend's news affecting the hospitality industry. News includes: Premier Inn seeks legal advice over Travlelodge ‘refund’ campaign; M&B shareholder blocks appointment of new chairman; Toby ; Michelin-starred chefs on menu at Edinburgh’s Christmas food fair and more…
Posted: 30 November 2009 | 10:25
The School Food Trust has partnered with the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) for the second year running to help fight world hunger. The Really Good School Dinner campaign, which goes live in January 2010, is now open for registration. The scheme is a partnership campaign...
Posted: 26 November 2009 | 10:11
Football star Jonathan Woodgate will today kick off a partnership between the Tottenham Hotspur foundation and the School Food Trust designed to encourage children to choose healthy school meals.
Woodgate, who captained Spurs to the club’s 9-1 victory over Wigan at White Hart Lane...
Posted: 24 November 2009 | 09:00
Story of the week: Mark Sargeant, Gordon Ramsay’s right-hand man and former head chef at his Michelin-starred restaurant at Claridge’s, has resigned from the celebrity chef’s restaurant group. Recommendations that all Scottish primary school children should be given free meals...
Posted: 20 November 2009 | 15:44
Recommendations that all Scottish primary school children should be given free meals have been criticised by catering experts, who question how the initiative could be funded. A source close to Scottish local authority caterers said that while many councils were sympathetic to the government's plans ...
Posted: 20 November 2009 | 07:00
Foodservice supplier Pasta King has changed hands following a £13m, private-equity-backed management buy-in. The group’s new managing director and chairman, Howard Farquhar and Mike Cole, are shareholders in the acquisition vehicle set up by majority stakeholder NBGI Private Equity ...
Posted: 18 November 2009 | 16:06
A round-up of the weekend's news affecting the hospitality industry. News includes: Scottish Government advised to give free school dinners to all primary pupils; Lloyds to take over Admiral Group in £600m debt-for-equity swap; cookery schools in demand among city professionals and more…
Posted: 16 November 2009 | 10:29
New legislation toughening up the staff vetting procedure for those working with children is causing confusion for school caterers, industry figures have warned.
Posted: 11 November 2009 | 07:00
Roast dinner followed by sponge pudding with custard is the nation’s favourite school meal, research has revealed. The online poll of 3,000 people was conducted by the Local Authority Caterers Association (LACA) to mark today’s launch of the 2009 National School Meals Week (NSMW).
Posted: 09 November 2009 | 14:04
Beverley Baker, head of commercial services at Surrey County Council, is chairman of the Local Authority Caterers' Association (LACA), which is organising National School Meals Week next week. She talked to Janie Stamford.
Posted: 06 November 2009 | 10:31
Nutritional standards became mandatory in secondary schools this September and the end of the Government's transitional funding is fast approaching (March 2011). So where does this leave school caterers post-Jamie Oliver's 2005 crusade?
Posted: 05 November 2009 | 15:43
Obesity in children may be ‘levelling off’ according to a report published today by the National Heart Forum, giving healthy school meals campaigners a spark of hope. New data analysis found that the rate of increase in obesity levels across the country may be in decline, following a relentless rise ...
Posted: 03 November 2009 | 16:29
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