If you would like to attract new customers, increase customer satisfaction, increase staff motivation and your sustainability credentials just send us an email and we will forward you Marco's tried and tested recipe of how this is done by reply MarcoPW@HospitalityandCateringNews.com … [Read more...]
Brakes and Fresh Direct announce all-in-one fresh food company
Fresh Direct and Bain Capital, the owners of Brakes are delighted to announce a new Company that will bring together three of Bain’s fresh food businesses – M&J Seafood, Pauleys and Wild Harvest – with Fresh Direct. The new company will be jointly owned by Bain Capital & Nigel Harris. Current Fresh Direct owners, Nigel & Colin Harris will continue to take an … [Read more...]
UK Food and Restaurant Trends for 2015
Leading food research and consulting firm Technomic has turned to the U.K. market to identify the transformative food and restaurant trends for the coming year: Trend 1. Alternative Diet Focus The forthcoming allergen labelling requirements will fuel significant changes at restaurants by compelling operators to be more transparent about the ingredients they use and … [Read more...]
Recipe: Chocolate, chestnut and celeriac soup
H&C News recently wrote about Chocolarder and its products (see link at foot) and, with winter arrived at last, we thought that it would be interesting to see how chocolate could add to seasonal food. Here Michael Longman introduces his take on Chocolate, chestnut and celeriac soup – with the added dimension of Peruvian Dark chocolate: “Now that November has brought … [Read more...]
Golden line-up of chefs for IFE 2015 Skillery
Everyone from the winner of MasterChef: The Professionals to the former personal chef of legendary composer Baron Andrew Lloyd-Webber is set to take part in The Skillery at next spring’s International Food & Drink Event (IFE) at London’s ExCeL from 22-25 March, 2015. Guaranteed to be one of the highlights of the high profile industry show, The Skillery will also feature … [Read more...]