The internet is a big, big ocean when you’re a small hospitality business. There are so many questions to answer and random advice being thrown your way from all angles. Will you have your own website? Should you be advertising somewhere? How do you get your business in front of online customers? All of these questions make it hard to know where to start when thinking of a … [Read more...]
Mark Sargeant joins The Strand Dining Rooms
Mark Sargeant, the renowned TV chef, restaurateur and recipe book author, has announced he will join The Strand Dining Rooms as Chef Director this month. Sargeant, who spent 13 years working with Gordon Ramsay, including seven years as Head Chef at Gordon Ramsay at Claridge’s, will introduce an entirely new Great British menu at the all-day restaurant and cocktail bar, … [Read more...]
MIDAS Awards 2015 – the winners
The Menu Innovation and Development Awards (MIDAS) 2015 were presented earlier this month, recognising the creative talents of menu development managers and group executive chefs across the multi-unit and chain restaurant sectors of the foodservice industry. The winners Asian Casual Dining: Wagamama Branded Pub Restaurant: Greene King for Eating Inn Breakfast: … [Read more...]
New restaurant concept and school meals catered for
Yesterday’s Open Kitchen Live once again saw chef busy serving up solutions for attendees. Restaurants as always were well represented and a new burrito concept was examined in some detail with quite a few ingredient twists challenging chef on the day. How to produce and serve 200 hot breakfasts at the same time to school children was also put to the test. With results … [Read more...]
Sodexo headline sponsor FreeFrom Eating Out Awards 2015
Sodexo will again be the headline sponsor for the FreeFrom Eating Out Awards which will open for their second year on 8 June. The awards were launched last year to coincide with the implementation of the new EU allergen regulations which require all food service outlets to know, and be able to tell their customers about any of the 14 major allergens in their offer. The … [Read more...]