BaxterStorey has been awarded its highest Hospitality Assured score to date. The leading foodservice provider received 83.2%, ranking it among the highest-scoring organisations in the sector. The industry average is 73.1%. Hospitality Assured is the quality standard created by the Institute of Hospitality and assesses nine key areas of business from customer research and … [Read more...]
Care home serves up award-winning meals to residents
Summerfield House Nursing Home in Halifax is the first older people’s care setting to achieve the bronze Food for Life Served Here award in England under the Lottery-funded Better Care programme. The bronze Food for Life Served Here award recognises caterers who are serving of fresh, local and honest meals. The team at Summerfield House make over 300 meals each day for … [Read more...]
Poetry & Pomegranates – Clerkenwell-based restaurant to host special event
Yuma Hashemi, chef patron at The Drunken Butler, is hosting a unique event at the Clerkenwell-based restaurant – celebrating the Persian festival of Yalda. Yalda, which marks the ‘longest and darkest’ night of the year and is held on 21 December, is a time when friends and family gather together to eat, drink and read poetry until the early hours. In Persian tradition, … [Read more...]
Seven out of 12 UK train companies now offer vegan options
Seven major train companies offer vegan options on-board their trains now, compared to just two earlier this year, thanks to a campaign by a leading vegan charity. At the beginning of 2018 The Vegan Society launched the next phase of their popular Vegan on the Go campaign, which sought to get more plant-based options onto UK trains. Virgin Trains, East Midlands Trains, … [Read more...]
The Government’s latest message to EU migrants is a disaster for hospitality
The Leader of the House of Commons, Andrea Leadsom, announced earlier this week that the Government ‘expects’ their immigration white paper to be published before the House rises for the Christmas break this coming Thursday. The immigration white paper is expected to confirm that EU migrants will need to have a job offer before they can come and work in a post Brexit … [Read more...]