Foodservice News and Information

Governments are being urged to align food taxes with public health goals after new research found supermarket shoppers are forced to pay a premium for healthy baskets. The non-profit Access to Nutrition initiative (ATNi) compared the cost of healthy and…

Businesses that are failing to act on plastic waste have been urged to step up and help build a circular economy. In the latest update to its Global Commitment 2030, the Ellen MacArthur Foundation (EMF) called out the 80% of…

Businesses including Nando’s, Burger King and Tesco are supporting a new government push to tackle a rising tide of ill health by building healthier, more resilient workplaces. The trio are part of a group of more than 60 early adopters,…

The UK should aim for 75% self-sufficiency in food production by 2050, according to a group of MPs who have warned that UK agricultural productivity growth has stalled. The All Party Parliamentary Group on Science and Technology in Agriculture (APPGSTA)…

Foodservice businesses may need to start thinking in strategic ways about how to cater to both normal and medically-suppressed appetites. So reported Footprint recently in a piece about the impact of appetite-suppressing drugs on hospitality and foodservice. This week, the…

The world’s major meat and dairy companies are generating combined greenhouse gas emissions on par with some of the biggest fossil fuel producers, according to new estimates from environmental and food policy experts issued ahead of the COP30 climate talks…

Humanity now consumes around 5.6 trillion m3 of green water and 1.2 trillion m3 of blue water each year to grow crops. If this total volume (6.8 trillion m3) were a lake, it would be the sixth largest in the…

“In the past, when people were talking about climate change or sustainability, it was in a doom and gloom, in a punitive, in a very negative . . . way. And people got fed up with that,” said Jean-Christophe Flatin, chief executive of the…