DON’T FORGET that landfill tax is about to go up again. As part of the landfill tax escalator – designed to encourage the diversion of waste from landfill – waste disposal costs rise by £8 per tonne each year. When you read this it’ll be £64 [...]
London 2012
THE COMPANY best-known for making the Comic Relief Red Noses and the plastic ruler has come up with another first. After years of research, Invicta Plastics has created the world’s first rigid and durable products made solely from regular plastic drinking bottles, lids and [...]
A NEW TARGET to ensure that no waste from the events sector ends up in landfill has been announced. As part of the ”Zero waste events: a 2020 vision”, a new “roadmap” has been published to help the UK’s £36 billion events industry better manage [...]
THE TOP stories of 2012, from Starbucks’ tax travails to rising energy bills and the “greenest Olympics ever”. January/February With the mince pies sitting heavily around the waistline and the influence of festive parties still coursing through the veins, health and diets are rarely far from the headlines in the new year. And so [...]
WASTE MANAGEMENT was one of the areas in which the London 2012 Games performed better than any other Olympics. The food was pretty good too. Thats according to an in-depth review looking at whether the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games truly delivered the promised levels [...]
WITH MASSIVE sponsorship from fast food companies and a veil of secrecy covering alternative catering, London 2012 was quickly titled the junk food Olympics. But was that an accurate moniker, and could it actually have a positive outcome? Long billed as the largest peacetime catering [...]
PORK AND pork products have been boosted thanks to the London 2012 Olympics. Figures from Kantar Worldpanel, produced for BPEX, show sales were up 8% in value and 9% in volume during the Games period. This was ahead of chicken (up [...]
CATERING FIRM Aramark has come under fire for throwing away food prepared for Olympics teams. Employees working for catering firm Aramark have told BBC London they were being ordered to throw away food meant for Olympic and Paralympic teams immediately after it was cooked. Aramark told the [...]
WITH THE Olympics in full swing, Red Tractor Assured farmers almost two weeks in to their challenge of feeding around 23,900 athletes and team officials, 20,600 broadcasters and press and over 9 million visitors. Following LOCOG’s decision to make Red Tractor [...]
The UK Games legacy
By footprint on December 3, 2012
Published in: Comment, Foodservice News and tagged Aramark, BaxterStorey, Commonwealth Games 2014, De VEre Academy of Hospitality, Food Vision, Gleneagles, James Whithers, Jobcentre Plus, John Bennett, LOCOG, London 2012, Ryder Cup, Scotland Food & Drink.
…AS THE hard work on one huge food operation finishes, another is already under way. BaxterStorey’s John Bennett looks back at the 2012 Olympics… At the start of 2011, BaxterStorey secured a contract to deliver catering at the main media centre for the London 2012 Olympic [...]