Compass Group is a big, big company that touches most of our lives in someway day-to-day whether we realise it or not.
The caterer, which provides services in staff restaurants, hospitals and schools throught the UK recently landed a plum job to provide services at Heathrow's new Terminal 5 for British Airways's (BA) customers and airport owner BAA's staff.
No doubt it's making a better job of feeding people than BA and BAA are of flying them from the new terminal.
Compass, unlike many of the pub companies, is upbeat about its prospects for 2008, which makes for a refreshing change from all the doom and gloom about at present.
Anyway, some Compass facts:
Compass purchases more than 3 million litres of gravy per year - enough to fill an Olympic sized swimming pool
If you put the amount of Jaffa Cakes purchased each year by Compass Group end to end they would run further than the entire length of the Metropolitan Tube Line
During the St. Patrick’s day celebration period, Compass UK serves more than 700,000 pints of Guinness.
At the Wimbledon Tennis tournament, more than 18,000 bottles of champagne are sold during the two week period or the equivalent of 72,000 glasses.
Compass sells more than 8 million cases of cold drinks through its partners each year. That's around 4.5 drinks per second every day, every year fact fans.
