Healthy eating
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Boutique contract caterer Artizian has won a Gold Eat Out Eat Well award from Surrey County Council for its healthy food offer at its operation at Canon in Reigate. Artizian, which won the £1.4m annual turnover contract from Sodexo in 2008, runs a staff restaurant, coffee bar, trolley service and hospitality at the electronics firm's Surrey headquarters.
Posted: 31 January 2012 | 11:07
Education caterer Innovate Services' recent research into packed lunches found that just 7% complied with the food-based standards for school dinners. The caterer's Lunch Box Amnesty study group also found that just under a quarter (24%) of lunch boxes analysed achieved the food-based standard.
Posted: 26 January 2012 | 15:37
Compass Group has launched a new mix-and-match food offer aimed at customers looking for an easy approach to healthy eating at breakfast or lunchtime. The "whole + sum" concept is made up of three mix-and-match components, and no complete dish adds up to more than 500 calories.
Posted: 19 January 2012 | 13:53
The School Food Trust (SFT) has issued new voluntary nutrition guidelines for pre-school children aimed at reducing obesity in under-fives. Nurseries, child-minders and other providers of early-years services now have a nationally-recognised source of information.
Posted: 17 January 2012 | 11:41
Lexington Catering has introduced calorie labelling to its Let's Energise product range as part of its efforts to support the Government's Public Health Responsibility Deal. The caterer teamed up with Tucker, nutritionist and health and wellbeing consultant at Be Happy Be Healthy...
Posted: 09 January 2012 | 10:30
Pride Catering has scooped a hat trick of silver Food for Life Catering Marks for its school meals work in the South-east. The caterer's contracts at Vineyard, Heathfield and Brookland schools - all in the South-east - were previously bronze. Pride now holds one gold, four silver and seven bronze catering marks.
Posted: 05 January 2012 | 12:21
Compass Group has taken almost eight tonnes of salt a year out of its offer by reducing the contents of its salt sachets by 25%. The move follows the launch of the Government's Responsibility Deal in March, which saw the catering giant commit to three pledges that put health and wellbeing high on the business's agenda.
Posted: 24 November 2011 | 14:55
Caterer CH&Co recently took 40 chefs to an inspiring salt masterclass with Raymond Blanc at Le Manoir aux Quat'Saisons, as part of its commitment to the Public Health Responsibility Deal. Patricia McAleer reports
Posted: 11 November 2011 | 14:56
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
UK restaurants and pubs could be approaching a "tipping point" on the issue of displaying nutritional information - including calorific content - on menus, as it emerged that two-thirds of diners want to be better informed before ordering food.
Posted: 17 October 2011 | 12:49
Compass Group has seen sales of 1% milk soar as health and nutrition continues to stay high on the public agenda. The catering giant, which buys 25...
Posted: 14 October 2011 | 12:28
Elior has signed up to six of the Government's Responsibility Deal pledges, including a commitment to salt reduction and the removal of artificial trans fats...
Posted: 14 October 2011 | 11:42
The School Food Trust (SFT) has been recognised by the Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH) for its work on children's food. The charity won the...
Posted: 12 October 2011 | 16:34
The five-year contracts at Highdown School and Sixth Form in Reading; Leigh Technology Academy in Dartford; Longfields Academy, Wilmington Academy, and special school Milestone Academy, all in Kent; and a three-year deal at Stockley Academy in Middlesex, gives Cucina access to almost 7,000 new customers.
Posted: 27 September 2011 | 11:37
Healthy eating choices have been hampered by the recession, according to research by contract catering group Westbury Street Holdings (WSH). Almost a quarter of parents surveyed (22%) said that the recession had reduced their ability to make healthy eating choices for their child.
Posted: 27 September 2011 | 11:15
Independent catering group CH&Co has launched a range of calorie-counted sandwiches and salads as part of its Wellbeing Being Well healthy eating campaign. The new range of 10 sandwiches and five salads will be available in 50 of the caterer's 140 restaurants nationwide from today.
Posted: 05 September 2011 | 12:22
Fast-food chain McDonald's will start introducing calorie information to menus throughout all of its 1,200 UK restaurants, the UK Department of Health has announced. McDonald's move is a result of its commitment to the calorie labelling pledge as part of the Responsibility Deal.
Posted: 05 September 2011 | 10:27
Proposals to introduce a fat tax on unhealthy foods to address the UK's mounting obesity crisis have come under fire from industry figures and suppliers. Last week, a series of articles published in medical journal the Lancet predicted that over the next 20 years...
Posted: 01 September 2011 | 12:07
The School Food Trust has made six new appointments as it prepares to complete its move into the third sector. Experts in health, local government and marketing have taken up seats on the board as the trust sets out to continue its work as a charity.
Posted: 10 August 2011 | 17:15
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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