Caterer and Hotelkeeper - Responsible Hospitality

Video: The Red way to be green

Red Hotels won the Sustainable Business Award, sponsored by Nestlé Professional, at the 2011 Cateys for its commitment to environmental practices at its two hotels in Cornwall ... View more

Sustainability savings

Hotelympia visitors urged to sign energy efficiency pledge
Hotelympia visitors are being urged to sign a pledge to use more energy-efficient equipment. The Responsible Hospitality Partnership wants companies heading to the ExCeL event, which starts 26 February, to substitute an existing technology for one that is more environmentally friendly.
Posted: 21 Feb 2012 | FULL ARTICLE
London restaurants and hotels called on to donate leftover food to needy
A charity initiative is calling on London restaurants and hotels to donate leftover food to the capital's needy. The scheme, entitled Plan Zheroes, uses an online map to match restaurants and hotels as well as supermarkets and grocers offering surplus food with charities able to distribute it.
Posted: 20 Feb 2012 | FULL ARTICLE
FoodCycle eco café reaches fundraising target
A London community eco café has been thrown a lifeline to continue operating for another year after a successful fundraising effort. A campaign by the FoodCycle Café in Haringey, powered by crowdfunding website Peoplefund.it and supported by celebrities, MPs and Twitter, reached its £5,000 target this week...
Posted: 07 Feb 2012 | FULL ARTICLE

Sustainability marketing

Catermasters and Olympic hopeful Sara McGreavy launch exercise videos
Catermasters has produced a series of exercise videos in conjunction with Team GB hopeful Sara McGreavy as part of its London 2012-themed wellbeing campaign. Aimed at encouraging customers and staff in each of 120 workplace restaurant sites across the UK to improve their...
Posted: 22 Feb 2012 | FULL ARTICLE
Accor's global hotel estate consumes same energy as mid-sized city
The entire Accor hotel chain across the world consumes the same energy as a mid-sized city, an environmental footprint report has revealed. The report, the first of its kind for an international hotel chain, comes ahead of Accor's new sustainable development strategy.
Posted: 21 Feb 2012 | FULL ARTICLE
Bristol coffee firm pays to train Nicaraguan students instead of buying Fairtrade coffee
A Bristol coffee roaster is to pay three Nicaraguan students through college as an alternative to buying Fairtrade coffee. Adrian Wogan, from Brian Wogan Coffee, said the £4,500 a year for the students at La Bastilla Coffee Plantation would benefit families of coffee-growers directly.
Posted: 20 Feb 2012 | FULL ARTICLE

Sustainability and the law

Make sure your business is WEEE compliant

“We have now entered the second compliance period for the UK WEEE (Waste Electrical and Electronic equipment) Regulations and still some confusion remains amongst caterers and hoteliers,” says Roger Miller, commercial manager of Veolia Environmental Services’ WEEE Producer Compliance Scheme....

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Product news

Pennine Tea and Coffee: Wega Concept 2 Group Espresso Machine with independant brew group boilers
Vertical flanged boiler for each brewing group, in copper and brass, with a 1,2 litre capacity, and 1150W heating element...
Posted: 13 Feb 2012 | FULL ARTICLE
Radisson Blu Edinburgh named as Gram's Hotel Sustainable Champion
The Radisson Blu Edinburgh has been crowned the Hotel Sustainable Champion of the Year by refrigeration supplier Gram UK, which has recently published the hotel edition of its Gram Green Paper exploring hospitality's attitudes and responses to green issues.
Posted: 27 Jan 2012 | FULL ARTICLE
Pritchitts wins top Arena award for environmental performance
Irish dairy co-operative Pritchitts has won platinum status in Northern Ireland's annual Environmental Benchmarking Survey for its environmental management, performance and assurance practices.
Posted: 20 Dec 2011 | FULL ARTICLE