Christopher Delalonde MS, sommelier with Sarment Wines, London, was announced last night [28 April] as the winner of the Champagne Piper-Heidsieck UK Sommelier of the Year 2010 following a thrilling final held at the new Westbury Gallery at the Westbury Mayfair hotel, London.
The UK’s restaurant, hotel and pub operators are using an imaginative range of marketing techniques to keep the nation’s diners eating out including variations on ‘meal deal’ offers, ensuring they offer something for everyone, exotic-sounding dishes, familiar retail brands, and by labelling more dishes with health claims and details of food provenance. New Menurama research […]
Independent, national contract caterer Host has been awarded quality assurance accreditation ISO 9001 for its quality management and ISO 14001 for its environmental management systems.
Tighter cost controls, strong sales, the shedding of unprofitable contracts and improved purchasing have helped Host Contract Management beat the downturn to achieve the biggest profit rise since its launch in 2004, with pre-tax profits rising from £41,000 to £209,000 for the year to 31 December 2009, despite turnover falling 21% to £14.5m.
The Academy of Food & Wine has announced bursary prizes worth a total of £10,000 for the establishments and colleges of the winners and runners-up in its 2010 Gastronomy Team of the Year and Future Stars of Gastronomy competitions. Both are sponsored by Discover the Origin.
The Academy of Food & Wine, the professional training body for front-of-house service, has announced the names of the six restaurant managers who have made it through to the final of the prestigious UK Restaurant Manager of the Year 2010. The 2010 finalists are: • Mark Bevan, restaurant manager, Chester Grosvenor, Cheshire • Michele Caggianese, […]
Food manufacturers should be encouraged to take the catering market more seriously when it comes to new product development, consider using the sector to launch products and build brands, and should stop viewing catering as just a bolt-on to retail sales. This was the message from foodservice analyst Peter Backman, managing director of Horizons, speaking […]
The semi finals of the Academy of Food & Wine’s 2010 Sommelier of the Year competition will see sommeliers from the UK’s top restaurants pitting their skills against one another, including representatives from two Gordon Ramsay restaurants, The Fat Duck, Le Manoir aux Quat’Saisons, Hotel TerraVina and La Trompette.
Do your front-of-house staff and your kitchen brigade work effectively as a team? Is your menu planned with matching wines in mind? Has your sommelier or wine waiter tasted all the food on the menu? If you have a chef/waiter team that can work together and could devise a menu with wines to impress our […]
Host, the independent national contract catering group run by foodservice entrepreneur Jerry Brand, has been awarded three new catering contracts, two in education and a third in business & industry. Host has expanded its portfolio of independent school contracts with the addition of Box Hill School in Dorking, Surrey, which has 450 pupils and staff. […]