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Footprint Awards 2026 shortlist
In an unprecedented year of a record amount of entries, we are delighted to announce the shortlist for Footprint Awards 2026, revealing the foodservice and hospitality sector’s leading responsible business initiatives. Footprint Awards remains the only initiative to honour the achievements of…
Study shows gender balanced teams perform better
Gender balanced management teams achieve better results across a range of performance indicators, according to a new report by Sodexo. The global, five-year study of 50,000 Sodexo employees found that teams managed by a balanced mix of men and women…
Big is beautiful again
Huge diverse conglomerates fell out of fashion in the 90s, but the foodservice industry has put mergers back on the business agenda. By David Read. In the 1970s and 1980s (when I was in my formative business years) the world…
The robots are coming
Machines are replacing people on farms, food factories and McDonald’s restaurants. But fears that they will make humans redundant are overblown, writes Nick Hughes. When self-service kiosks began rolling out to McDonald’s outlets in 2015, staff could have been forgiven…
Animal welfare standards continue to improve across foodservice
Foodservice companies collected 13 awards for their approach to farm animal welfare standards as cages for poultry become “consigned to the history books”. In the past 12 months there has been a wave of commitments to source cage-free shell and…
Hiding veggie options away on menus can dent sales
Consumers are 56% less likely to order a plant-based dish when it’s labelled vegetarian and categorised in a separate section on menus, according to new research by the London School of Economics. The experts took a menu with eight main…
School pupils reduce food waste by a third through social media
WasteLESS Week campaign uses Instagram and Twitter to discourage food waste. A school in south west London has successfully reduced its level of food waste by a third, through an innovative campaign, using social media. The ‘WasteLESS Week’ campaign was…
Foodservice lacking bark as Brexit bites
The sector risks being forgotten if it doesn’t get its act together and start lobbying hard, writes David Burrows. Managing Brexit will need the whole food industry – farmers, food manufacturers and retailers – to find a single voice with…
Second chance for the slackers
The government is again asking businesses to take a voluntary approach to obesity. Will the Childhood Obesity Plan succeed where the Responsibility Deal failed? By Nick Hughes. The dog that has not barked properly in the whole obesity debate.” That…
Sodexo boosts veg content with ‘Green & Lean’ offer
Sodexo has launched a new sustainable meals offer in its independent schools business following a successful pilot last year. The Green & Lean meals are the product of a partnership with WWF-UK and are aimed at reducing the environmental impact…