The Good Food Guide may have faced criticism from some of its former inspectors last year but giving it the benefit of the doubt it has some cheap eats to recommend for these cash-strapped times.

The latest edition of Which? carries a plug for the new Good Food Guide, which is out in September in the form of a list of good-value set menus drawn from the new edition.

Familar names include Tom Kitchin's Kitchin in Leith, Edinburgh and Antony Demetre and Will Smith's Wild Honey (which we have done a Menu Watch on in the past).

Birmingham's Opus; Allium, Gloucestershire; Agaric, Devon; the Anchor Inn, Cambridgeshire; Anthony's at Flannels, Leeds; Artisan and Catch, Sheffield; Old Post Office, Glamorgan and the Trinity, Crown and Castle in Suffolk completes the set, so fill your boots!

Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid, Morecombe & Wise, Chris & Jeff Galvin, the Krankies.

Yes history is replete with great double acts and after watching our latest Caterer video of Leon co-founders John Vincent and Henry Dimbleby I believe I have witnessed another.

Yes, John and Henry were on fine form (note for the purpose of this gag I am excluding Leon's third founder Allegra McEvedy who was one of the hospitality few recognised in the recent Queen's Birthday Honours) at the latest Arena lunch at London's Landmark hotel on Monday (23 June).

Speaking to John in a follow up interview, I asked how he'd found taking the stage in front of an audience of industry peers. He said although nervous he'd written a script to get him and Henry through.

However, as with all good double-acts there always has to be a bit of one-upmanship, and the opportunity to stitch your partner up like a kipper must always be taken.

In this case it most certainly was when Henry apparently nicked the best bits from the prepared script and left Johh scrambling around - in his head - for something to say.

Well, what are business partners for after all?

No news yet on whether John is considering hiring the other Leon to do a bit of boardroom "cleaning" at the healthy fast food chain.

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Soon we'll be drinking in the spirit and ideals of ancient Greece reborn anew in China.

Yes, there'll be much revelling at this showcase of the pursuit of excellence and the chance it provides for individuals to reserve their place in history, and no doubt the odd dropped baton or two.

And of course, we'll all be cheering on our plucky, poorly-resourced team GB, maybe even Dwain Chambers.

There'll be the drug scandals, naff mechandising and of course Tibet. Yes, it's all there in the mix and inevitably with the handing over of the torch at the closing ceremony thoughts of London 2012.

But before we get there, we'll have a chance to watch 14-year old diver Tom Daley compete in China as the second youngest-ever male Olympian to represent GB, and that, in part, will be thanks to Sodexo.

Daley has qualified for the Games in Bejing in the 10-metre platform dive, but before that will be visiting secondary schools across Britain where Sodexo provides school dinners to help explain the benefits of a healthy diet and active lifestyle.

Here's hoping he makes a splash (at the schools not on entry into the pool).

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But TVU unexpectedly got thrown into the limelight when it became clear during one of the candidate's discussions that he had been fibbing about an HCIMA course on his CV.

Asked how long he had spent at the university, recruitment sales manager Lee McQueen, who was one of four others in the running for Sir Alan's six-figure-salary job, claimed he had spent two years at Slough but had not completed the course.

But it turns out, following some research by the interviewer, that McQueen spent only four months studying for his hospitality-based qualification. How someone who specialises in recruitment thinks this is acceptable is beyond me. What percentage of people lie on their CVs?

Although Sir Alan was shocked to hear about this blatant lying, McQueen remains as one of four candidates now that colour-me-beautiful Lucinda has been fired. 

It must have been McQueen's unusual impersonations of a pterodactyl that saved it for him. Now that's what I'm talking about. 

Fair Pint, which launched last month, was formed to highlight the tied lease agreements used by pub owners such as Punch Taverns and Enterprise Inns.

Brian Jacobs, founder member of Fair Pint, told Caterer that the campaign's goal was to get the recommendations of a Select Committee for Trade and Industry report in 2004 adhered to.

The report called for more transparency in the way that rents were calculated, as well as recommending a voluntary code governing rent reviews.

But the report also insisted that removing the beer tie would not necessarily make tenants better off.

"Fair Pint will see this through. We recognise we are up against £10b worth of might but that does not stop us," he says.

The campaign has already received the backing of Liberal Democrat MP Tom Farron, whose Early Day Motion on the issue has received 44 signatures.

What do you think? Are you for or against the Fair Pint campaign? I'd love to hear your comments.