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  • Steve Quinn, MD – Cucina Restaurants

    I HAVE to say that Jamie Oliver’s recent attack on Michael Gove over non-mandatory nutritional standards in academies made me a bit cross.                             You may think… Read More

  • Breakthrough innovation – creating a brighter future

    Vicky Murray, Forum for the Future principal sustainability advisor, explains why we all need to be innovating to shift the foodservice sector for the better, and how we can make it happen.                … Read More

  • Sodexo’s Tony Cooke on the challenges faced in the shift of dietary culture

    FOLLOWING LAST weeks publication of the Government’s Green Food Project report, which has been tasked with making “the whole food chain as sustainable as possible”, Sodexo’s Tony Cooke talks candidly about the challenges faced by the foodservice industry in changing the… Read More

  • Innovation in food and agriculture

    LORD CARTER of Coles comments exclusively for Foodservice Footprint on the subject of innovation in agriculture and food following his speech at the Footprint Forum: Thought Leaders & Innovators Conference & Partnering Event.   We have left the era of… Read More

  • Zero waste law could bring huge savings

    Scotland has some new waste regulations in place . But what they mean for the foodservice industry? Iain Gulland explains.   BUSINESSES OPERATING in Scotland’s catering sector will be required to sort and present food waste and other key recyclable… Read More

  • Marketing green products

    MARTIN MOLL, Head of Marketing Honda UK explains how he markets eco-markets and how this can apply to any number of other manufacturing industries and when it comes to selling green products, the car industry is ahead of most.   Convincing customers… Read More

  • Out of the frying pan … and into landfill

    THE 20 pence per litre tax differential for biodiesel produced from used cooking oil comes to an end next month. This will mean more oil ends up in landfill or down the plughole as operators and distributors abandon their environmental… Read More

  • Revisiting the ethical mark debate

    THIS WEEKEND’S episode of Countryfile explored the ethical mark debate. Footprint Forum debated this very topic a year ago and we thought that some of you may find it interesting to revisit the discussions to see whether we have moved on? … Read More

  • No surprise that Tesco ditches carbon label

    When he launched a project to label all 70,000 products in his supermarket’s portfolio, Sir Terry Leahy was undaunted  by the task: “Many of those people who talk about the need for a carbon currency say it is too complicated… Read More