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Jamie Oliver is worried about Germany's love of dumplings while Pizza Express is no doubt concerned that it’s got protestors camped out on its doorstep (again).
Posted: 18 April 2008 | 18:00
Gordon Ramsay may have bought himself his own chef academy recently but for those already in the industry aspiring to great things time is running out to enter the Craft Guild of Chefs Graduate awards. So chop, chop.
Posted: 11 April 2008 | 17:57
Proving you can’t have your American Pie and eat it, news this week that far from Cherish a new London boozer the Material Girl Madonna pretty much said Justify My Love and has denied that she has anything to do with Scottish & Newcastle’s Punch Bowl. Don’t preach; someone’s in trouble deep.
Posted: 07 March 2008 | 18:00
It’s enough to make you sick. Well the legal bods in the long running case involving a Spanish hotel and UK tour operator certainly thought so, and have won a £2.5m payout for 1,000 affected holiday makers.
Posted: 15 February 2008 | 18:00
Something old, something new this week. Old, or more fairly well-established are our Acorn awards, which celebrate 22 years in 2008.
Posted: 08 February 2008 | 18:00
The darling of the pub trade had to concede that betting all the family silverware on a property deal, which was in the balance due to the credit crunch, might not have been the best idea. It wrote down £274m of profit as a result.
Posted: 01 February 2008 | 18:00
Unless you live in a Galaxy far, far away, you can’t have missed the annual circus that is the award of the coveted Michelin stars.
Posted: 25 January 2008 | 18:00
Although the meaning of life may well be 42, you no doubt have other questions you’d like an answer to as well.
Posted: 18 January 2008 | 18:00
You spin me right round baby, right round; like a record, baby, right round, round, round.
Posted: 11 January 2008 | 17:00
What do an urn of ashes, a pet Persian cat called Princess, a blue glass eye and a six foot by six foot remote controlled helicopter have in common?
Posted: 04 January 2008 | 18:00
Compass Group pulled off a bank job this week, winning the deal to cater at the Bank of England.
Posted: 14 December 2007 | 17:00
Caterer this week kicked off its drink and drugs awareness campaign to highlight the true cost of dependency within the industry.
Posted: 07 December 2007 | 14:45
Will they, won’t they? No I’m not reminiscing about the Nescafe Gold Blend couple but the Mitchells & Butlers (M&B)/shareholders/Robert Tchenguiz love triangle.
Posted: 30 November 2007 | 17:00
You’d probably bet things couldn’t get any worse for the Government this week. Of course the House always wins and you’d be wrong.
Posted: 23 November 2007 | 14:45
Worse things happen at sea but strange things occur at Travelodge, or so it would seem.
Posted: 26 October 2007 | 17:00
The former boss of Golden Tulip UK, Peter Roberts, has come up with a cunning plan – forming a hotel site finding company and signing a deal with Whitbread, the business that snapped up his former company for £44m last month for more sites for its Premier Inn. Neat.
Posted: 19 October 2007 | 15:30
It’s all going according to plan, school meals that is. According to Jamie Oliver the fall in school meal uptake that is worrying many a caterer is par for the course and a temporary blip...
Posted: 12 October 2007 | 00:00
Going once, going twice, sold to the gentleman in the tall white hat…yes Caterersearch has auction fever and will be holding its first online auction in association with Hilditch on 19 October.
Posted: 28 September 2007 | 18:00
Las Vegas has always had a dark underbelly due to its historic ties with the mob but news that Caesars Palace has settled a sexual harassment lawsuit involving kitchen workers forced to have sex with supervisors or lose their jobs has to be a new low.
Posted: 31 August 2007 | 18:00
In the land of the blind the one eyed man is King. So says the old adage and, while that might be over-egging it, the row between Compass – one of hospitality’s leading employers - and People 1st, the sector’s Skills Council, was a humdinger this week with Compass saying it was reviewing its continued support for People 1st and challenging the body to come up with some tangible results and progress.
Posted: 10 August 2007 | 18:00
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