THE HOSPITALITY sector looks set to generate thousands more jobs as Pret A Manger and Whitbread both publish ambitious expansion plans. Whitbread, which owns Premier Inn and Costa, announced an increase in like for like sales of 3.7% and a 11.4% rise in profits to £356.5m. [...]
THE FOODSERVICE sector has been dragged into the horse meat scandal with Compass and Whitbread having found horse DNA in products sold as beef. Horse meat has also been found in cottage pies supplied to 47 schools in Lancashire. The news emerged just a fews hours [...]
FOODSERVICE BUSINESSES talk a good game when it comes to supporting British dairy farmers, but few are willing to divulge details of the price they are paying for milk. It takes a lot of bottle to stand up to the might of [...]
THE COFFEE chain Starbucks has reportedly paid just £8.6m in corporation tax in the UK over the last 14 years. News agency Reuters carried out a four-month investigation looking at how the company was able to tell investors that is was profitable, even though it was [...]
THE HEAD of one of the UKs biggest milk buyers and dairy processors has suggested that the likes of Costa and Starbucks need to pay more for their milk. In a comment piece for the Daily Telegraph today, Mark Allen, chief executive [...]
WHEN IT COMES to food-on-the-go, quality is what people want, according to new research by Horizons. The latest Ones to Watch report shows that the focus remains on established favourites, such as burgers and hot dogs, but with a gourmet edge. Healthy eating [...]
THE DAIRY Coalition will gather Friday 10. August to decide on where it goes from here in the battle on milk price. Speaking to FoodserviceFootprint.com, Lee Woodger, head of the NFUs food chain unit, revealed that they had started looking at caterers [...]
