The Editor's Hospitality Blog

CatererSearch's latest blog launch - "the editor's blog" is designed specifically with our users in mind.

Why? well this blog will help you find new and interesting content posted on CatererSearch... so it will signpost great new stuff, whether it be a new piece of video on Caterer TV, a great blog posting on one of our blogs, an amazing news story or some data in our trends and data section, or some fantastic new recipes in our exclusive recipe section. Remember all our recipes are professionally checked so they are guaranteed to work.

It will highlight new developments on the site and signpost new content - so it's well worth keeping in touch with.

Well if you haven't I'm sure you soon will, particularly if you live in the West country, because owners Cosmo Fry and Lulu Anderson will be featured in a TV documentary about opening their newest Big Sleep hotel in Cheltenham.

So when Caterer's Tom Vaughan interviewed the pair a week or so ago, the TV cameras were already rolling, so it seemed too good an opportunity to miss a chance to interview the pair to camera... and they make an engaging couple..... so if you haven't seen this five-minute clip yet, it's well worth a look. Or if you want to read the full article either buy Caterer and Hotelkeeper tomorrow (8 February) or read the full Big Sleep hotel article on CatererSearch.

As you probably know if you are familiar with this site, we have recently introduced three new blogs to our stable, including this one, the new caterer blog (left) and a redesigned Kitchen Rat (btw... we have a plan to introduce more, so watch this space for more on that).

But we also our experimenting with other things we can do on our blogs - and we recently introduced an RSS feed on to the caterer blog, so you can keep an eye out for all the best of the hospitality stories on the web.

What we do is sift the news feeds through our team of experienced journalists, so hopefully we weed out some of the rubbish and just serve you up the best of the web (we are still learning with this ourselves, so bear with us if don't get it quite right).

Watch out for different variations of this idea appearing on our blogs... and of course I'll keep you updated through my posts too.

As well as having the latest news and views on the hospitality industry, we also try and provide bespoke sources of information on useful topics.

To this end, we have put together a series of pages that bring together the best of CatererSearch information and other information from across the web.

Each page includes latest news, latest analysis or comment, features, links to blog posts, images, profiles and recipes where relevant, video clips, and links to external websites.

So far we have constructed 16 of these among a wide range of topics. So if you want to find out latest news, features or analysis about a wide range of issues, like the forthcoming smoking ban, school meals or the London Olympics then use the embedded link to find these pages.

This week we've been updating our new product section Buy It! with all the latest product releases onto the market - this has seen another 109 new products featured in this section. So if you are keen to keep abreast of what new products are out there then head to Buy IT!

Also new on the site is the latest figures on hotel performance from both Tri Hospitality and PKF. For those operating in the UK hotel industry checking out the latest monthly stats from these consultants might be an invaluable insight for your business.

Next week is a big week for CatererSearch - for the last six months we have been busy developing a new look website, which we believe will make caterersearch a much better experience for our users.

If everything goes according to plan, we should reveal our new look site next week. I can't give you a preview at the moment, but I will tell you what our aim has been and that is to produce a site that easier to find the information that we know you regularly search for.

We hope this will improve and enhance your experience of using caterersearch... but you'll have to wait to find out more next week.

Today we unveil our new look and we hope its appearance coupled with better functionality and easier navigation will make it a better experience for you.

We've listened to what you've said, and we've simplified our website to make it easier to use than before and more visually appealing. We have added bigger pictures throughout the site and sharpened the focus of our content to concentrate on providing the information that you are after.

Firstly, I hope you like our new look caterersearch and agree with us that the changes we have made are a big improvement.

I am sure there'll be things that you feel are strange to start with because we have changed some of the locations of the content and this may alter the way you use the site. We think its more logical, and hope you do so too.

I do however think that overall it's a massive improvement and once its bedded in and settled down, I'm sure you'll appreciate it more and more.