Public sector catering gets 'buy British' go-ahead
Prime Minister David Cameron and Environment Secretary Elizabeth Truss have announced this could generate £400 million of potential new business for the British food industry as part of the governm
Prime Minister David Cameron and Environment Secretary Elizabeth Truss have announced this could generate £400 million of potential new business for the British food industry as part of the governm
In December new EU legislation comes into force that will affect how allergen information is provided on prepacked food labels and will also introduce a new requirement to provide allergen informat
Plans include a high profile PR campaign fronted by a British Sausage Week celebrity – yet to be named – plus the ‘Banger Awards’ and the availability of supporting point-of-sale promotional materi
The class is organised by the Hospital Caterers Assocaition (HCA) and the winners automatically become the HCA’s Hospital Chefs of the Year.
Showcasing the work carried out in the social care sector, healthcare, the armed forces, schools, workplace, some of the cost sector’s top kitchen operators will be in action.
He joined Lexington in 2006 and has since seen the business quadruple in size, with annual sales currently of more than £32m and employing 700 people.
In an awards ceremony at the Hilton Metropole Birmingham, which was part of the HCA’s annual conference, he got the vote of judges ahead of fellow shortlisted finalists Bruce Cross, Cornwall Food O
Andy Jones, HCA chairman, said: “Although the CQC results have only included four questions relating to the food service, two of these are often outside of the control of the caterer as the ward en
Alex Jackson, co-ordinator of Sustain’s Campaign for Better Hospital Food, said: “From the outset, I was dismayed that health minister Dan Poulter prohibited the Hospital Food Standards Panel from
The three leading organisations behind the Week - Patient Safety First (PSF), Hospital Caterers Association (HCA) and National Association of Care Catering (NACC) – put out the challenge to everyon