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A London community eco café has been thrown a lifeline to continue operating for another year after a successful fundraising effort. A campaign by the FoodCycle Café in Haringey, powered by crowdfunding website Peoplefund.it and supported by celebrities, MPs and Twitter, reached its £5,000 target this week...
Posted: 07 February 2012 | 17:20
Three of the leading green tourism organisations in the UK are joining forces to promote sustainable tourism and hospitality businesses. The Green Tourism Business Scheme, Greentraveller.co.uk and the Considerate Hoteliers Association are working together to offer benefits to each other's members.
Posted: 30 January 2012 | 16:37
Having launched Hyatt Thrive, the hotel group has attempted to put environmental processes at the heart of the company. Vice-president of corporate social responsibility Brigitta Witt explains to Rosalind Mullen the local steps they've taken and why they make a difference to staff, the business and the community
Posted: 16 December 2011 | 15:59
Battlesteads hotel, near Hexham in Northumberland, is the winner of the Hotel Cateys Green Hotel of the Year 2011 award.
Posted: 08 December 2011 | 12:18
Hotel Cateys winner Battlesteads has been transformed into a quality, value-for-money business that champions sustainable tourism. Aaron Morby reports
Posted: 01 December 2011 | 10:55
School caterer Cucina Restaurants has introduced a 'seeds to plates' scheme to keep meal prices down despite rising food supplier costs. Food prices...
Posted: 10 November 2011 | 14:53
Are you overlooking savings of £20,000 a year through poor waste management? Emily Manson explains how small steps can make a big difference to the bottom line
Posted: 31 October 2011 | 10:34
On 24 October Caterer and Hotelkeeper, in association with Unilever Food Solutions, will host an online debate to discuss food waste and what can be done to minimise it. We will examine the extent of the food waste problem.
Posted: 14 October 2011 | 13:01
One of the UK's largest biomass boilers for the hospitality industry has been installed at Matfen Hall hotel, golf and spa in the Tyne Valley, Northumberland. All hot water and heating at the 53-bedroom hotel is now supplied via the £350,000 Ecoenergy boiler, which is fuelled by wood chips.
Posted: 10 October 2011 | 12:51
More than 80 restaurants have backed the Sustainable Restaurant Association's new campaign to cut food waste in restaurants by promoting doggy boxes. Restaurants...
Posted: 06 October 2011 | 11:22
Top hotels across the country have signed up to a star rating system that measures sustainability credentials. Some 70 businesses have either been assessed or are in the process of being assessed for the Sustainable Restaurant Association Star Rating survey.
Posted: 19 September 2011 | 12:40
Restaurant Associates, the executive dining division of Compass Group, has become the latest contract caterer to sign up to the Sustainable Fish City pledge. City caterer Vacherin signed up to Sustainable Fish City in March, while WSH businesses BaxterStorey, Caterlink and Holroyd Howe announced their involvement in July.
Posted: 19 September 2011 | 12:13
Waste not, want not is the philosophy behind the refurbishment of the George Inn, in Wedmore, Somerset, where all the materials for the project have been reclaimed, found or bought second hand. James Stagg reports
Posted: 12 September 2011 | 16:21
Somerset butter from Scotland, Welsh lamb from New Zealand and West Country fish fillets filleted in China: just some of the false "local food" claims misleading consumers who believed they were eating local produce highlighted in a Local Government Regulation investigation earlier this year.
Posted: 19 August 2011 | 11:24
Raymond Blanc is heading a competition to find the UK's most forward-thinking restaurant or caterer for sustainable fish. Blanc will work with the City of London Corporation, Sustainable Fish City...
Posted: 17 August 2011 | 14:47
The Sustainable Restaurant Association (SRA) is launching a new campaign calling on London restaurateurs to offer diners doggy bags to take home left over food. The SRA's Too Good To Waste campaign, which will launch in October...
Posted: 05 August 2011 | 11:42
Independent contract caterer Bartlett Mitchell has become the first contract catering company to receive a Green Tourism Business Scheme (GTBS) accreditation. The silver accreditation, for its site at Autodesk in Farnborough, recognises the steps taken by the caterer to develop the unit's sustainability credentials.
Posted: 04 August 2011 | 12:28
If May hadn't been so wet we'd be writing about an imminent drought and emergency measures to save depleting precious resources, too. As it is, the hotel and restaurant industry uses a staggering 400 million cubic metres of water every year - equivalent to 100,000 Olympic swimming pools.
Posted: 03 August 2011 | 17:02
There may have been many confusing changes to the Carbon Reduction Commitment scheme since its introduction last year, but one thing remains true - cutting energy use saves money. Emily Manson explains what's different and describes easy ways to cut energy costs
Posted: 03 August 2011 | 15:28
Independent education caterer Alliance in Partnership (AiP) has added a Worcester primary school to its burgeoning portfolio of contracts in the Midlands. Worth £315,000, the three-year deal kicks off at Cherry Orchard primary school at the start of the new academic year in September.
Posted: 02 August 2011 | 11:52
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