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AI Chatbot Provides Support for FM

Chat GPT has received significant attention in the field of natural language processing (NLP) due to its ability to generate human-like text and...

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Eurest Joins with University of Oxford to Study Lunch Choice Psychology

Contract caterer Eurest has partnered with the University of Oxford to examine whether workers can be influenced to buy sustainably based on the food...

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Record Year for Sodexo's Plant-Based Options

To mark Veganuary 2023, Sodexo has published its food sales data showing a year-on-year increase in the proportion of vegetarian and vegan meals sold...

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Royal Surrey Hospital Awarded ‘Exemplar’ Site Status for Cleaning Standards

Medirest, the healthcare division of Compass Group, has been recognised for its early implementation of the 2021 National Standards for Cleaning at...

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Rinnai and Toyota Collaborate on New Hydrogen Technology

Rinnai, in collaboration with Toyota and Woven Planet, is working on an innovative new application of hydrogen for food preparation. All three...

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Would You Choose Your Lunch Based on its Carbon Footprint?

Data on the carbon footprint of lunches is being offered for corporate catering customers, as an educational tool to help them to understand the...

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Sodexo Partners With Quorn on World’s First Carbon Neutral Contract Catering Solution

Meat-free brand Quorn has joined forces with Sodexo to launch Carbono Cero, the world’s first carbon-neutral solution for food services. The...

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New McDonald’s Site is First Net-Zero Restaurant in UK

McDonald’s Market Drayton is the first restaurant in the UK due to be verified as net-zero emissions for construction, using the UK Green...

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Personalised Lunches Delivered by Robots for Ocado Staff

A fully-customised office canteen lunch, chosen from 2,700 nutritional combinations, could soon be served to you via a foodservice robot. Ocado...

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Leadec Acquires Partners in Hygiene

Leadec, the global service specialist for factories, has acquired Partners in Hygiene, a UK-based service provider for the food...

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Contract Caterer Fooditude to Feature in Google’s Sustainability Training

Fooditude, a London-based contract caterer, is to be featured in sustainability training developed by Google and The Planet Mark, for the UK...

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Birmingham Office Refit for Compass Group Companies

Compass Group has invested in its Birmingham workspace for Eurest and 14forty employees, in a refurbishment focussed on wellbeing and...

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Compass Group Prioritises Sustainable Eating Habits

Compass Group, the UK’s largest food and services provider, brought together several climate experts to discuss building a sustainable...

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Post-Pandemic Catering Solution Launched by Lolly

Vending machines and other digital-first catering solutions might hold the key to post-pandemic office catering. It’s Lolly, the digital...

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Eurest Awarded Royal Mail Contract

Eurest, the workplace division of Compass Group UK and Ireland, has been awarded a contract by Royal Mail to deliver services, including catering,...

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Mitie Launches Low Carbon Menu for NHS Hospitals

Mitie and apetito are collaborating to cut carbon from the menu at St. George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. This is...

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Workforce Nutrition Alliance Launches Online Guide

A new set of innovative digital tools and resources has now been launched to support and guide employers to maximise the benefits to...

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The Future of Workplace Restaurants

Morag Freathy, Managing Director of Compass Business & Industry, looks at what workplace catering might look like in the offices of the...

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FM Companies Show Commitment to Food Waste Action Week

Companies such as Sodexo, ISS and Compass Group have all joined the campaign to halve food waste by 2030. Around a third of the food we produce...

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AI in Catering – Lolly Snapserve Launches Cashier-Less Checkouts

AI has many applications in buildings, from AI-enabled IoT sensors to facial recognition, and it’s now helping to support COVID-safe workplace...

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Agile Model for Post-COVID Catering Launches

Initiated by Bartlett Mitchell, a new subscription-based contract catering and FM model has been launched as part of a move to offer clients flexible...

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New Tier Rules in England – Hospitality Sector Reactions

As England’s new tier rules take effect, what does this mean for the already struggling hospitality sector? The Confederation of British...

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Sodexo Acquires Majority Shareholding in Fooditude

Sodexo has today announced it has taken a majority shareholding in Fooditude, the London-based delivered-in office food services...

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IoT Sensors and Catering – Global Restaurant Chain Saved £1.25M in Food Stock

An IoT smart building system has helped a global restaurant chain in the UK save £1.25M during the first COVID-19 lockdown. Infogrid’s...

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The Office Christmas Party 2020 - How is the FM Industry Celebrating?

Without knowing exactly what lockdown restrictions will be in place in December 2020, how is the FM sector planning to celebrate their office...

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Christmas 2020 – What Will the Office Xmas Party Look Like This Year?

Amidst England's tiered lockdown system, what does this mean for the annual office Christmas party? Whether you’re one to embrace...

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Bartlett Mitchell Acquired by Westbury Street Holdings

Contract caterer Bartlett Mitchell has been acquired by Westbury Street Holdings, who own a number of other UK foodservice brands. Westbury Street...

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Vending Machines – The Future of Post-COVID Catering?

The whole dynamic of workplace catering has been disrupted by COVID-19, so are vending machines the answer? Aside from the new logistical issues...

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Sodexo Extends Catering Contract at Solent University, Southampton

Sodexo has extended its partnership with Solent University, Southampton following a re-tender of the catering and hospitality services...

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Bartlett Mitchell Launches COVID-Safe Catering Solution

Catering services provider Bartlett Mitchell has announced the launch of “BM delivered” to support clients looking for temporary...

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UK Catering Businesses Collaborate to Support Former Employees

More than 20 companies and individuals from the foodservice sector are collaborating to support former employees who have been made redundant due to...

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ISS Launches Back to Work Catering Solution

ISS Food Services has launched Simply MADE to encourage the confidence to return to workplace restaurants. The scheme is a new take on ISS’...

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Compass Group Joins List of Firms Not Claiming Furlough Bonus

Compass Group, the UK’s largest food and support services company, has confirmed that it will not be taking up Job Retention Bonuses for any of...

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How Will Catering Change When we Return to our Offices?

Concerned about how post-lockdown office catering might work? Dean Kennett from Fooditude tells us how it can be done safely. Dean Kennett is the...

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Chartwells Launches Partnership with Dame Kelly Holmes Trust

Chartwells, Compass Group UK & Ireland’s specialist provider of catering to the education sector, has announced a charity partnership with...

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Fooditude Reopens Kitchen To Serve Those Most In Need During COVID-19

London-based contract caterer Fooditude has reopened its kitchen to help feed the most vulnerable people in their local community. They are serving...

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Compass Group Recognises The Critical Role Of Its Front Line Employees

Compass Group, the UK’s largest food and support services company, is announcing new measures to recognise the efforts of its colleagues and...

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Union Demands Immediate Sick Pay For Outsourced Workers With Suspected COVID-19

If people feel forced to work in hospitals – or any other workplace – while ill, coronavirus will become a national health crisis, claims...

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The Lunch Bunch – Chef Pair Take SCOTYs

Two Atalian Servest chefs have each won regional School Chef of the Year (SCOTY) awards in the West Midlands and the South West. The pair work in...

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Airedale Buys Flowrite To Become Largest Hospitality Maintainer

The Airedale Group, the specialists in the installation and servicing of catering equipment UK has acquired Flowrite Refrigeration Holdings...

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Veganuary - Planting The Seed Of Plant-Based Diets

As many people turn to healthy eating regimes in the New Year to offset festive indulgences, Sodexo, is giving customers a helping hand by encouraging...

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What A Cracker - Networking Club Festive Lunch Pulls The Crowds

ThisWeekinFM took around 150 of the FM's finest to the Ivory Vaults at St Katherine Docks in Central London for a festive lunch with acrobats,...

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Great Coffee - No Bull

Jacobs Douwe Egberts has launched their premium bean brand, White Ox, claiming it will make an excellent office espresso or a wonderful warehouse iced...

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Plastic In The Office - Replace, Remove, Reduce And Reuse

Jackie Furey addresses the widespread issue of plastic in the environment by providing various tips on how to reduce its use in the office....

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Grease - The Time, The Place, The Motion

Dublin Airport has solved the problems and seen the light of grease from all its catering outlets clogging up the works and causing a maintenance...

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Lunch Is For Wimps?

A Glassdoor survey has revealed that forty per cent of UK employees would like to reduce their working hours by not taking a lunch break. Seven in...

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Extra Hours Affecting Relationships

In this article contributed by Forest Holidays, we look at why burnout has become a regular occurrence and the impact this work-related syndrome has...

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Living Wage Laughed Out The Door - BEIS Strike Planned

Outsourced workers are set for indefinite strike action at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy as their employers laugh at a...

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Tax Demands Transformation Starting With Soft FM

HM Revenue and Customs has awarded contracts for soft FM services including cleaning, waste, porterage, meeting room management, mail and food...

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Money Monster - Clooney's Club Gets Clattered

George Clooney's exclusive Mayfair Club, where he goes when in London and which is patronised by billionaires and other A-listers, is to be...

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City Of London Munches On 15mph Street Plan

The City of London Corporation has voted to make the Square Mile the first area in the UK with a 15mph speed limit - and to regularly close streets to...

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Whata Shop - Inside Primark's Birmingham Flagship

April 11 saw Primark open its massive new flagship shop in Birmingham. The 187th store in the chain spans five floors across 160,000sq.ft and employs...

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Ink On Paper As Contracts Take Off

2019 started off very slowly but in the second week back there has been a flurry of new contracts signed including B38 winning Ink Global and Sodexo...

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Emcor UK Takes Insurance On TFM Contract

Emcor UK, has been awarded a contract with multinational insurance company RSA Insurance Group which is being described as a total facilities...

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Compact Water Softener Grabs Build It Award

Kinetico has bagged best Plumbing or Draining Product at the Build It Magazine Awards 2018 with its Kinetico Premier Compact Water Softener. Said...

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Trust Puts Trust In ISS For First Commercial Contract

Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust has appointed ISS Healthcare to provide retail and patient catering. This is the Trust's...

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Sodexo's Food Fight Goes Wonky

Sodexo has embraced wonky fruit and veg in the fight against food waste. The company has launched its initiative, known as Wasteful to Tasteful, to...

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Whipps Whips Up A Green Restaurant Recipe

Whipps Cross Hospital opened a refurbished restaurant for staff and visitors in the week commencing Aug 6, boasting improvements to be more...

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All To Play For And Pay For In The Enviro World

Envirotech Group Launches New FM Business; Whitbread extends relationship with Mitie; Sodexo has won an £11.2 million contract with Tyne Coast...

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FM Served On A Plate

If you're looking for just one place for all you need to know about what's going on in the FM sector this week, look no further - plenty from...

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Drilling For Gold. Boxing Clever And The River Dance

There's RoSPA Gold Winners; New job winners; new acquisition winners; contract winners; and social winners in the latest golden box of chocolates...

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Dodgy Dealings, Double Helpings And A Leicester Swoop - Anyone For A Digest?

We've got contract gains and company purchases and news of Carillion FDs under investigation and another NHS Trust setting up its own FM co - FM...

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Veganuary - Is There Such A Thing?

BaxterStorey launched Healthy Me in 2016 to promote wellness in the workplace with a range of nutritious, yet simple recipes. This month has seen 20...

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Getting Sporty - Sodexo In Major Transfer Deal

Sodexo and Olympus Partners has announced (Nov 15) that Sodexo has signed an agreement to acquire Centerplate, Inc. a provider of food and beverage,...

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Innovation Boosts FM Market in 2017

A new report on the UK facilities management market has found a softening of growth in outsourcing demand as Brexit jitters continue, though forecasts...

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A Digest If?

The Infineum UK Milton Hill campus in Oxfordshire which comprises the Headquarters & Business and Technology Centre is to be run by Emcor UK under...

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Chocolate, Smoothies, Nurses, Dry Risers, Boilers & Pints of the Black Stuff

Chocolate, Smoothies, Nurses, Dry Risers, Boilers & Pints of the Black Stuff Chocolate is on the menu for Apex Lifts; and Sodexo smoothies for...

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Finger Licking Good

The BIFM Facilities Management Careers Zone will return to the Facilities Show which takes place 20-22 June at London's ExCel. Facilities...

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School Dinners Fit for Kings

Independents by Sodexo has been awarded a £1.4 million a year contract by King’s Hall School and King’s College, Taunton to provide...

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Dancing Queen's Awards Winners

176 Queen’s Award for Enterprise winners were announced on Friday April 21 on Her Majesty the Queen’s 91st birthday. Two companies in the...

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New Quid on the Block

Tuesday March 28 saw the introduction of the new One Pound Coin which the Treasury is hailing as a groundbreaking security initiative whilst those in...

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A Green Line and Breakfast Time

Saracen Interiors is extending its facilities management offering to include a complete selection of exterior and landscape services. The new...

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A Worthy Piece of Work

Building work on the Catering, Retail and Leisure (CRL) facility on the site of the new Defence College of Logistics, Policing and Administration at...

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Loving Angels Instead

JPC (one of Regent Samsic’s brands - the one that charges more for its services in London) has re-secured its £1.3 million contract to...

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Cooking-up Qualifications Using Digital recipe

A new online tool has been launched that will allow chefs to earn a globally recognised professional certification without even having to leave the...

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Handling the Role of Corporate Development

Sodexo has appointed celebrity chef Adam Handling as a consultant to support the continued development of its Corporate Services business in...

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Come Dine With Me

Grazing Catering, a flexible workplace and venue food company, was launched week ending October 21, aiming to offer customers an unconventional...

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Stop Me and Buy One

British Land has launched Eats from the Street 2016 which sees the company’s restored red bus, complete with a ‘green’ engine, visit...

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Horses, Chickens, Angel and Demons

Facilicom has been shortlisted for the final of the inaugural European Cleaning & Hygiene Awards 2016, taking place in Barcelona in...

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MediaCity to Double in Size as Marketeers and Scallies Move In

Manchester's MediaCityUK is set to double in size over the next decade under ambitious plans submitted to Salford City Council on June 7. Up to...

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Striking Gold with its Staff

One UK caterer has secured its first ever Investors in People Gold Award with IIP recognising Bartlett Mitchell’s commitment to the development...

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If You Can Make It There...

Croydon opportunities The Edinburgh based company, Arthur McKay, has strengthened its presence in south-east England following the winning of a...

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Nothing But a Hill of Beans

Three BaxterStorey baristas have been recognised amongst the best in the UK, earning a place in the semi-finals of next month’s UK Barista...

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You Are What You Eat

Entitled New Year, New You, the New Year DARE – an acronym for Delicious and Responsible Eating – healthy eating campaign has increased...

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Non-Compliance is Risky for Catering

The National Association of Air Duct-Cleaners UK (NAADUK) has published a technical guidance document outlining how businesses must comply with...

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WWF Wrestles with Healthy Sustainable Food

Sodexo has teamed up with conservation charity WWF to develop and pilot a set of 10 sustainable meals. The project is part of Sodexo’s...

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In Defence of the Wonkies

A caterer has launched its I’mperfect campaign and has called on the industry to help reduce needless produce waste as a new BBC documentary is...

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Food for Thought in Workplace Catering

Food ‘pleasure seekers’, app usage and coffee appreciation are three areas set to change the face of workplace catering over the next five...

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Food Glorious Food for the Workplace

City fine dining specialist Lusso entered a partnership with chef Tom Sellers to take a menu inspired by his Michelin-starred Story restaurant into...

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Is There a Market for Flat-packed Food?

Metis has been asked to conduct an intensive, worldwide marketing campaign to find partners to commercialise the Hopper Pot, a compressible pot...

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Welcome to the Hot Seat

The Public Sector 100 Group has appointed Andy Jones in the voluntary role of Chair of the organisation. Service Development Director for the ISS...

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Don't be a Grump or a Frump

G4S Facilities Management has launched a customer engagement training programme across its catering contracts based around the use of mood...

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Serving-up Lashings of Profits and Jobs

WSH, the company behind six trading brands operating in the food and hospitality sectors, created over 1,250 new jobs in 2014 following continued...

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Nestling in for a Golden Cuppa

The Nescafé Gold Blend Barista-style machines are claimed to provide operators with the ‘perfect opportunity’ to offer consumers...

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Serving up the Best Dishes

A development programme for talented cooks in the business who want to progress to being head chefs has been launched by Servest Group. The...

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When a Hospital can Become a One-Stop Shop

Work is due to start on the multimillion pound redevelopment of the main entrance and retail area of University Hospital Southampton (UHS), following...

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Gardeners World - Firm Takes All from Housing Provider

Sodexo Horticultural Services became sole provider of communal area maintenance covering over 100 Wakefield & District Housing sites across the...

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Do You Like Hospital Food? Not Likely Says Leith

New hospital food standards that are due to come into effect next month in the NHS have been described as ‘feeble’ by cookery writer and...

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Cutting Cost of Kitchen Waste

Kingspan Environmental, designer and manufacturer of commercial waste management and sustainable systems for buildings, will display its range of food...

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Give Us This Day Allergen Advice on Demand

New food regulations came into force today - some of which impact on organisations serving food who will now have to provide 'advice' to...

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Flying High All the Way

Carillion has been awarded support services contracts by Heathrow Airport Limited and by Barts Health NHS Trust, which together are worth...

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Fat Used to Make Lean Energy

A ‘safe’ collection system for catering, food and hospitality industries has been launched Fatboxx, from Peter Ridley Waste...

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Hospital Food Standards Leave a Bad Taste in the Mouth - Industry Figures Comment

Yesterday (Thurs Aug 28), Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt MP published hospital food standards and announced that it would now be legally binding for...

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Levy Signs Entire Chelsea Squad Deal

Levy Restaurants has signed to become Chelsea's caterer - with the deal seeing the firm look after food at the squad’s Surrey training...

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Caterers Blend - Dough to Rise?

Host Management and Catermasters have just announced a merger that will create a company called HCM Group in a deal which gives the new business a...

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Second Contract for ESS

Aberdeen based ESS has worked with Dolphin Drilling since 2007, delivering food and housekeeping services on board the Belford Dolphin. A second...

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As One Day Ends Another Begins - World Environment Day

World Environment Day (WED but curiously taking place on a the Thursday immediately after World FM Day) is the United Nations’ principal vehicle...

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G'Day for Glass Class Catering

JOCO reusable glass cups have arrived in the UK with the argument that glass, rather than plastic, is the ‘truest path to untainted taste and...

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Food Waste - Lords Call for Action

A House of Lords EU committee report has called for urgent action on food waste in Europe. It was published on Sunday (6 April) and among its...

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Catering for Rugger Crowds

Sodexo has won an eight-year catering and hospitality contract at the John Smith’s Stadium in West Yorkshire. The contract will see the...

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BBC Award Goes to Servest

Facilities management service provider Servest Group has won a three-year contract with the BBC to provide catering to 18 locations in the...

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Loyalty App Comes to Catering Services

Sodexo has launched the first loyalty app in the contract catering industry. The App, which acts as a virtual loyalty card, is being introduced at...

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Rub a Dub, Hub

FremantleMedia’s refurbished HQ just off London’s Tottenham Court Road houses 800 people on site. The company has awarded Bennett Hay the...

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Wellcomed Again

Restaurant Associates, part of the Compass Group, has retained its catering contract with the Wellcome Trust for a further three years. Under...

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Scotland - the Brave Move into On-site Catering

Centerplate, the international catering firm, has bought Heritage Portfolio, an Edinburgh based corporate hospitality and event caterer. Centerplate...

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School Dinners - Vendors to Join in on UCL Catering

A contract to provide retail catering, vending and hospitality services to 25,000 students and 9,000 staff at University College London's...

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Too Many (Good) Cooks - Joint Winners in Chef of the Year

The Annual Chef of the Year competition held by the Health, Education and Defence divisions at ISS Facility Services saw two winners - Teresa Dando,...

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The Great British Bake Off - Not Too Many Chefs Go to Paris

Earlier this year Sodexo announced its partnership with the well known Ecole Lenôtre. The plan is that every year, it will send up to 40 of its...

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Restaurants and Bars Slammed Over Lack of Recycling

Restaurants, bars and night clubs are the worst in the industrial and service sectors for recycling their waste, it has emerged, writes Commercial...

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C&C Catering Equipment Joins the Olympic Park Transformation

C&C has been appointed to install new catering facilities in the £300 million Olympic Queen Elizabeth Park transformation project, North Hub...

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Better Than School Dinners?

Kudos has had its contract extended for the provision of catering services for the National Union of Teachers HQ (Hamilton House) in London’s...

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Restaurants and Bars Slammed Over Lack of Recycling

Restaurants, bars and night clubs are the worst in the industrial and service sectors for recycling their waste, it has emerged, writes Commercial...

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