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As part of its ongoing commitment in supporting the healthcare channel, Premier Foods, has teamed its nation’s favourite gravy brand, Bisto, with Country Range, the leading independent foodservice brand.With an increasing ageing population in the UK and Ireland and a quarter of the UK population to be aged 65 or over by 2066 , celebrating…

>> A revolutionary charity which offers hospitality training to prison inmates is enjoying huge success. The Clink operates four training restaurants in partnership with Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service providing prisoners with an opportunity to gain new skills and qualifications in catering and horticulture – and helping them to secure employment in the industry…

School cooks are gearing up to celebrate the wonderful work they do by showcasing the benefits of a healthy school lunch. National School Meals Week (NSMW) sponsored by Kraft Heinz Foodservice and organised by the Lead Association for Catering in Education (LACA), is the one week of the year when the school meals industry celebrates…

By Martin Kersh, executive director of the Foodservice Packaging Association (foodservicepackaging.org.uk) Paper cups are recyclable despite media and politicians claiming the opposite. The UK now has the capacity to recycle all its paper cups. The issue therefore is no longer about the ability to recycle but one of increasing the collection of paper cups. Many…

There’s never a nice time to be in hospital – but Christmas can be especially sad for many patients. Serving a delicious Christmas dinner goes some way to alleviating this upset – and every year hospital caterers cook up the nation’s largest Christmas lunch, serving more than 400,000 Christmas dinners in England alone. Many NHS…

In May, key players in the food industry pledged to take ground-breaking action to drive down food waste as part of the government’s ‘Step up to the Plate’ initiative. Richard Harrow, chief executive of the British Frozen Food Federation, was one of those who signed the pledge. Here he explains why drastic action is needed,…

The latest figures from WRAP show that a total of 3,415,000 tonnes of waste is disposed of in the food sector every year, and 600,000 tonnes of the waste from pubs, restaurants, hotels and fast food outlets is food waste. Nearly one million tonnes of this is edible food. In an industry first, the Sustainable…

Halloween is becoming scarily popular, with an estimated UK consumer spend of £420m in 2018[1]. As the nation continues its love affair Halloween, 2019 celebrations are set to be bigger and better than ever before. So the odd ghoulish decoration behind the bar and Thriller on repeat will no longer inspire the increasingly expectant consumer.…