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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
When employees overstep the mark it is vital to act reasonably, especially if using this as a basis for dismissal. Legal expert James Hall explains
Posted: 13 May 2011 | 17:22
Nearly one in five restaurants, pubs and hotels in England and Wales which sell "local" food are making the claim falsely. That's the finding from...
Posted: 28 February 2011 | 14:58
A round-up of the weekend's news affecting the hospitality industry. News includes: Richard Shepherd puts Langan’s Restaurants on the market; Premier Inn launches £199 wedding and honeymoon deal; GMB blames pub tie for decline of rural pubs and more...
Posted: 20 September 2010 | 11:06
With a number of food assurance schemes in operation, caterers could be forgiven for a certain amount of confusion about what they mean in terms of standards of food quality and animal welfare. John Porter reports.
Posted: 02 September 2010 | 14:55
A Sheffield pub which served Pete Doherty soft drinks all night has been named the UK's most responsible pub. Greene King's Frog and Parrot in Sheffield - the pub where the Arctic Monkeys were discovered - won this year's Best Bar None Award, beating thousands of other entrants.
Posted: 05 July 2010 | 15:17
A round-up of the weekend's news affecting the hospitality industry. News includes: Scottish health campaign likens NHS malnutrition to euthanasia; Inverness to host UK's first social enterprise hotel; Gloucestershire schools banned from 'spying' on pupils' lunchboxes and more...
Posted: 05 July 2010 | 10:39
Guildford-based contractor Pride Catering has been awarded the Soil Association’s Food for Life Silver Catering Mark for its work at St Stephens School in Twickenham, which is also one of Food for Life’s flagship schools.
Posted: 21 June 2010 | 11:08
A round-up of the weekend's news affecting the hospitality industry. News includes: Premier Inn bans vuvuzelas to protect customers sleep; late-night bars to pay the cost of policing drunken disorder; Qatari government interested in Savoy hotel and Grosvenor House and more
Posted: 21 June 2010 | 10:30
Hospitality businesses have less than two weeks left to enter the RSPCA's 2010 Good Business Awards, which recognise ethical business approaches to animal welfare. The award recognises pubs, restaurant and caterers ...
Posted: 18 June 2010 | 14:33
Sodexo, Aramark and Whitbread have once again made it into Business in the Community’s (BITC) newly-published, pan-industry Corporate Responsibility Index 2009. Launched in 1996 to help companies benchmark their environmental management and performance...
Posted: 08 June 2010 | 10:59
A round-up of the weekend's news affecting the hospitality industry. News includes: Whitbread to raise £100m through private placement; machismo eating trend that consumes live animals plans UK launch; dine in the sky experience at Edinburgh Festival and more…
Posted: 01 June 2010 | 10:29
Our weekly round of of the week's hospitality news includes: Majestic Hotel blaze: missing man named, Duncan Bannatyne unveils plans to expand Charlton House hotel;US wine merchant sues Gordon Ramsay over £27,000 of unpaid bills and more...
Posted: 07 May 2010 | 15:39
Harrison Catering is switching its entire business over to British-sourced free range eggs, with plans to move all sites to the enhanced specification by September. The move follows an “intensive period” of research and negotiation by the company’s purchasing department...
Posted: 07 May 2010 | 13:06
The RSPCA is calling for pubs, restaurants and caterers across the UK to enter the 2010 Good Business Awards, which recognise ethical business approaches to animal welfare. The award recognise hospitality business that have set out to source their meat, fish and dairy ...
Posted: 06 May 2010 | 12:44
Eden Foodservice has become the first catering firm to be given the Silver accreditation Food for Life catering mark for a group contract by the Soil Association. The company has worked in partnership with Croydon Council to achieve the accreditation,...
Posted: 26 April 2010 | 10:15
Story of the week: Hotel, café, pub and restaurant customers all face the risk of being unceremoniously shunted off the information superhighway by a heavy-handed piece of government legislation passed hurriedly last week.
Posted: 16 April 2010 | 15:34
The UK’s first fully vegetarian and low-carbon restaurant chain is set to launch in London’s West End this summer. Otarian, which is opening two restaurants in New York City this month, will launch two sites in the capital on Shaftesbury Avenue and Wardour Street in June.
Posted: 15 April 2010 | 15:13
London restaurant Sushinho has become the first sushi outlet in the capital to take tuna off its menu.
The restaurant on King’s Road in Chelsea has made the decision on the back of the EU’s recent decision to support a ban on international trade in Atlantic bluefin tuna until stocks recover.
Posted: 15 April 2010 | 11:02
UK sales of organic food slumped by 12.9% in the last year as falling consumer demand and the toughest trading environment for 20 years took their toll. The hardest-hit organic products were fruit, vegetables, meat and bread, which have the biggest price differential...
Posted: 12 April 2010 | 10:17
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