Foodservice News and Information

  • Hotel Group launches plan to partner with eco-farms

    ACCOR HOTELS announced its Plant for the Planet programme will fund 200,000 trees in the UK in a pioneering project designed to promote sustainable food production and nurture links between hotels, guests and farms.   Europe’s largest hotel group marked…

  • Bigger fines for food fraud

    THE EUROPEAN Commission wants to impose “truly dissuasive” fines in a bid to combat food fraud.   The proposal is part of a package of food safety measures published this week.   Health commissioner Tonio Borg said the package would…

  • New HCA chair announced

    ANDY JONES has become chair of the Hospital Caterers Association (HCA).    Jones was elected to the position at the association’s Annual General Meeting recently and has taken over from Janice Gillan.   Jones has been an active member of…

  • Footprint Awards 2013 Community Vote Shortlist Announced

    THE NOMINEES for the “people’s choice” Community Vote in the 2013 Footprint Awards have today been announced.                           Selected by their peers, customers, suppliers and the industry at…

  • Salt cuts causing sugar highs in some foods

    CONSUMERS ARE being warned of the hidden sugar in some everyday products marketed as being healthier.   Ready meals, soups, sauces and yoghurts have all been found to contain high levels of sugar.   Manufacturers keen to market products as…

  • Long-term growth for foodservice expected

    THE UK’s foodservice sector will experience long-term growth now the worst of the recession is over, although it will take at least until 2016 to return to food sales levels of 2007.   That’s the prediction of Horizons managing director…

  • Kids reveal all on school meals

    A FIFTH OF school children think their dinners are not up to scratch. A similar number also say the meals could be healthier and want to see more fruit and salad on menus.   However, more than 40% are very…

  • Sustainable fishing standard attacked by scientists

    ONE OF THE world’s best-known sustainability standards has been criticised by academics for being “too lenient”.                     A team of researchers analysed the formal objections that have been made to the…

  • NFU chief attacks “hypocritical” government buying standards

    THE NFU has long fought for better relationships between retailers and farmers, but its president also has the government’s buying practices in his sights.   In an exclusive interview, published in April’s Footprint, Peter Kendall refers to food procurement within…

  • Sodexo’s new eco-vehicles

    SODEXO HAS increased the number of electric vehicles in its fleet to 18.                   Four new Renault Kangoo vans, which are noise and C02 emissions-free, have been leased to transport staff and…