Out of Home sector news

Innovation to deliver more plant-based menus and increased availability of high quality food in more and more locations will help the food-to-go market reach sales of £23.4 billion by 2024, up from £18.5 billion in 2019. Growth will be “hard…

The government has said it is minded to introduce a Deposit Return Scheme (DRS) from 2023 but a final decision will not be made until further analysis is carried out on the costs and benefits. This week, DEFRA published a…

Pub and restaurant chains are outperforming their supermarket counterparts in offering healthy, sustainable children’s meal options, according to the latest Out to Lunch league table. JD Wetherspoon topped the Soil Association’s chart which ranks brands according to a range of…

More than a billion pounds of food a year is wasted before it even reaches the shelf, according to a new report from WRAP. Research by the sustainability body found that around 3.6 million tonnes of food surplus and waste…

Scotland this week moved closer to introducing a mandatory 20p to 25p charge on single-use cups, as well as wider bans of cups in offices and at events and festivals. The government’s expert panel on environmental charging and other measures…

The official food hygiene rating of every restaurant listed on the Just Eat platform is now available, giving consumers direct access to the latest Food Standard Agency (FSA) information for over 30,000 restaurants and takeaways. The move follows new data…

Domino’s, Greene King, Dairy Crest, Aramark, Mondelēz and IKEA feature among a list of more than 350 companies continually failing to report on the impact their operations have on the world’s forests. More than 1,500 companies, all deemed to have…

Fixing the food system requires companies to support a transition to sustainable food production and plant-based diets including ‘less and better’ meat, according to a new report. The briefing paper, published by the Food Climate Research Network (FCRN) and the…

More than six years after the horsesmeat scandal, samples taken by local authorities have found contamination of one in five meat products with species not on the label. An investigation by The Mirror found that foods sold by retailers, restaurants…

The government has been urged to take “real action” to achieve its net zero ambition after it was revealed that progress towards curbing greenhouse gas emissions is lagging far behind what is needed, even to meet previous, less stringent, emissions…