Foodservice News and Information

  • Consumers asked to ‘be patient’ on launch of plastic bag tax

    RETAILERS IN NORTHERN Ireland have called on the government and customers to “be patient” as they get used to the new plastic bag tax launched today, April 8th, 2013.   Retailers and businesses in Northern Ireland must now charge at…

  • Potato stocks down by almost 20%

    ONE OF the wettest winters and coldest springs recorded has led to the lowest yielding potato crops since the drought of 1976.                   The Britsih Potato Council has warned that stocks are…

  • 2013 harvest already ‘written off’?

    The National Farmers Union has confirmed that for the first time in a decade Britain will become a net importer of wheat.   NFU president Peter Kendall said more than two million tonnes of wheat had been lost  because of…

  • London restaurants set to fuel power plant

    COOKING OIL from London restaurants is to be turned into energy for sewage works and homes in a deal worth £200m.   Cooking waste from thousands of London’s eateries and food businesses is to help fuel, what’s claimed to be…

  • Hospitality needs more recognition – WSH chief

    THE MOST powerful person in UK hospitality has claimed that the sector doesn’t get enough recognition and must do more to support British farmers.                   Alastair Storey, chairman and chief executive of…

  • 7% of fish mis-labelled

    FISH AND chip shops, restaurants and supermarkets are selling cod and haddock that are actually cheaper substitutes, according to new research.   The BBC has reported details of a new study showing that 7% of cod and haddock – two…

  • Sustainable plane food

    AIRLINES ARE not often synonymous with sustainability, but Virgin Atlantic Airways has just become the first to agree to have its food operations assessed.                       The Sustainable Restaurants Association (SRA)…

  • Blanc hails ‘birth of an international common language of restaurant sustainability’.

    FORGET MICHELIN stars, there’s a new global restaurant ratings system to help diners choose where to eat. Maybe not. But the Sustainable Restaurant Association’s (SRA) decision to roll its ratings system out globally will mean that chefs can compare their…

  • Horse meat found in Edinburgh schools

    A BATCH OF frozen mince containing between 1% and 5% horse meat was supplied to a primary school in Edinburgh prior to the product being recalled by distributor 3663.   Eighty-five meat product samples have been taken from the City…

  • Potato processor uses technology to cut water usage by 70%

    CONTINUING TO lead the way in water efficiency, potato supplier Greenvale has reduced its water usage by 70% at its Floods Ferry site in Cambridgeshire; as well as unveiling an innovative new water efficient irrigation system.        …