Foodservice News and Information

  • How much water do you eat?

    DINERS VISITING a unique pop-up café at the London Design Festival will know just how much water has been used to produce their food.   The idea is the brainchild of not-for-profit organisation Wonderwater, and will be staged at the…

  • School caterer recycles food waste

    INDEPENDENT SCHOOL caterer the Brookwood Partnership has teamed up with recycling company Cawleys to increase the array of recycling options available to their clients.    Brookwood has launched Cawleys’ “Eco Eating” system into a number of sites across their portfolio,…

  • Dairy coalition commits to working strategy for British dairying

    THE DAIRY Coalition has committed to working together to deliver on its ten point strategy to help secure the long-term future of the British dairy industry.   Speaking today at the Livestock Event , NFU dairy board chairman Mansel Raymond…

  • No identifiable health benefits to organic?

    ACCORDING TO research from Stanford University published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, whilst organic food could cut your exposure to pesticides, it will not make you healthier.   Out of 200 studies there was no identifiable difference in nutritional…

  • Aramark helps BP cut waste by 50%

    WASTE HAS been cut by half at BP’s headquarters in Dyce, Aberdeen, thanks to a number of initiatives by its foodservice provider.   Aramark has driven an improvement in resource efficiency, helping BP from a 27% recycling rate in 2008…

  • Urban Food Week in London

    NEXT WEEK London will play host to the first Urban Food Week.     The event has been organised to highlight the importance of buying and eating local food, as well as raise the profile of urban growing and planting…

  • Water vision from youngsters

    THE 2012 World Water Week in Stockholm has closed with a “vision” capturing the perspective of young water scientists and professionals on the priorities that must be set now in order to achieve water and food security by 2050.     …

  • FootprintChannel: Foodservice’s new media solution

    FootprintChannel is an online channel of FootprintTV, Footprint Podcasts and the Footprint Video Archive.   FootprintTV are a series of FREE-to-attend virtual events, powered by new interactive video streaming technology. The TV Productions allow key insight, intelligence and thought-leadership to be…

  • Farm app to predict harvests

    POTATO FARMERS will be able to predict future harvests using a new smartphone app.   Farmers have traditionally relied on cumbersome and inaccurate manual measurements to predict crop yields. But the new app will take photographs of the ground coverage…

  • Low salt products in decline

    THE NUMBER of products with low or no salt claims has declined in recent years.   Despite increased awareness about the risks of too much sodium in consumers’ diets and pledges from governments around the world to reduce salt levels…