The growing love of pub grub is delivering some much needed good news for the British pub industry. Research just released from Mintel shows that sales of pub meals grew by an estimated 14% between 2012 and 2016 to reach £7.4 billion. In the same time period, sales of alcoholic drinks grew by 6%, while soft drink sales rose by 7%. Indeed, it’s increasingly likely that … [Read more...]
Sodexo’s ‘Green & Lean’ meals wins Footprint ‘Sustainability in Education’ award
Sodexo, the world’s largest services company, was awarded the ‘Sustainability in Education Award’ at the recent Footprint Awards for its Green & Lean sustainable meal project. The Footprint awards represents the annual celebration of the work that organisations in the foodservice industry and its supply chain are doing to in some way redress the balance for the benefit … [Read more...]
Does the General Election affect what wine we drink?
In seven days’ time the UK will be voting in a General Election for the second time in a little over 2 years. You may be right in thinking that voting in the general election won’t have much effect. But as we get closer to those negotiations it is clear that the attitude taken in the negotiations post BREXIT election will have a resounding impact in one way or another on the … [Read more...]
pentahotels promotes Andrew Munt to Vice President Operations
pentahotels, the neighbourhood lifestyle hotel group, has announced the promotion of Andrew Munt to Vice President Operations. Effective from 1 June 2017, Andrew will be responsible for hotel operations in his new role, leading a dynamic operations team. Having studied Hotel and Catering Management in Manchester, Andrew Munt joined pentahotels in 2010 and played an integral … [Read more...]
Launching today: Balls & Company takes a trip around the world
This June Balls & Company, the meatball specialists on Soho’s Greek Street, will take a whirlwind trip around the world with a specially created menu of meatballs, inspired by some of Founder Bonny Porter’s favourite flavours from afar. Growing up in Sydney surrounded by a plethora of culinary traditions, Bonny will take guests from Morocco to Mexico, Italy to Argentina, … [Read more...]