Category: News
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April 2016 Food for Thought
Fishing for great ideas? Why not try this delicious recipe for Norwegian Skrei with buttered leeks, puy lentils, kale and pumpkin seeds. Find this recipe and more at www.codfromnorway.com Get fruity! With this healthy mango and gooseberry curry from Anjula Devi’s forthcoming book ‘Spice For Life’. More details at www.anjuladevi.com Say Chai-Yo to Thai New Year Singha Beer has teamed up with chef…
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Melting Pot: Gourmet Gluten-free
Mintel values the UK gluten-free market at £210million (June 2015) and it’s showing no signs of slowing down as awareness and diagnoses of coeliac disease grows. In fact 13% of the UK population now say they avoid gluten – the highest in Europe. With Coeliac UK’s Awareness Week taking place next month (May 9-15), we’ve…
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Wake up to new Breakfast opportunities
The dawn of a new era The breakfast market is booming. A recent survey revealed Brits are spending £76million every day on eating breakfast out-of-home with almost a third of people eating it out at least once a week. This means there is a growing window of opportunity for operators when it comes to, what…
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Hospital caterers support plans for sugar tax
The Hospital Caterers Association (HCA) is supporting plans to implement a sugar tax across hospitals to tackle the ‘national sugar high’ and obesity. NHS chief executive Simon Stevens is proposing the 20% tax on all sugary drinks and foods in NHS cafés to be introduced by 2020. He said the NHS’s 1.3million staff had a…
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Degrees of excellence
Ban the bland and take higher education catering to another level There are currently around 1.7million students in 154 learning institutions in the UK and it is estimated that students spent £5.4billion on food in 2013/14, with around a fifth of this being out-of-home consumption. A recent poll by TUCO (The University Caterers Association) revealed,…
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Care caterers to embark on world record attempt
Care caterers across the UK are being encouraged to take part in a world record attempt as part of Nutrition and Hydration Week. The organisers of the week – the Hospital Caterers Association and the National Association of Care Catering – have set themselves the challenge of trying to create a new official world record…
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Put Kids First for Easter Success
Appealing to children is the secret to operators looking to cash in over Easter and attract the profitable family pound, says cake maker Almondy. The popular Swedish supplier is encouraging operators to take a second look at their children’s menus in the run-up to Easter and tap into the family dining market which totals 3.18 billion…
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Girl Power!
An all-female team from Loughborough College has been victorious in the Country Range Student Chef Challenge. The talented trio scooped the top award in a highly competitive final against nine other teams at Hotelympia on Thursday (March 3). The team – Daniella Bromley, Emily Bucknall and Rebecca Brooks under the tutelage of their chef lecturer…
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Booming UK coffee shop market hails “nation of coffee connoisseurs”
The UK coffee shop market grew by 10% in 2015 with total turnover reaching £7.9billion. According to the latest report from Allegra World Coffee Portal: Project Café2016 UK, the branded coffee chain segment recorded £3.3billion turnover across 6,495 outlets, following impressive outlet growth of 12%, adding 714 stores during 2015 and delivering sales growth of…
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New figures show return of the boozy lunch
The boozy lunch is making a comeback, with new figures showing beer, cider and wine gaining share of consumption at lunchtime while soft drink share declines. The figures, from M&C Allegra Foodservice’s EatingOut Panel, show lunchtime bucking the trend of an overall decline in alcohol consumption. Beer and cider now accounts for 8.1% of total…