Comment/Opinion

“We need to display a wide range of foods and produce including meats, fruit, vegetables and cakes. Different units from different manufacturers would make the store look untidy so we looked everywhere for someone who could supply exactly what we wanted. Then I discovered TFSE Products and they did a beautiful job,” Salman said.  

Emma Nourry, trade marketing manager at SCA for the Lotus Professional brand, discusses how food service staff can maintain good hand hygiene levels when handling money around food, and how catering outlets can help to ensure the best levels of hygiene for their customers. Limiting contact between money and food

A survey among parents commissioned by the Children’s Food Trust with the School Food Trust came up with interesting views on healthy eating. Chief executive Judy Hargadon analyses the responses.

The healthy eating debate is dominated by the issue of obesity, but recent research suggests that malnutrition costs the NHS twice as much. Chief executive of apetito Paul Freeston says it is high time we tackled this important issue Malnutrition is the fourth-biggest driver of cost in the NHS with public health expenditure on managing the illness expected to exceed £13 billion a year. With the rising costs of care and the changing demands of an aging population, there is a clear and pressing need for action.

They are the first impression visitors from overseas have when they arrive – our airports. That’s why, argues Simon Dobson, this summer’s influx of tourists for the Diamond Jubilee celebrations and the Olympics offer a fantastic showcase for British produce and service Airports used to be stark, uninviting functional places that all seemed to mirror each other with many of the same dull, irrelevant brands that had no relevance to the city in which the airport was located or the diverse requirements of the passengers.

Ambitious Scots businessman Bill Toner has seen highs and lows in a 30-plus year career in contract catering. He told an Arena networking lunch about his story and the lessons learned so far. Les Leonard reports In a colourful 30-year career Bill Toner had top roles with two of the UK contract catering sector’s largest companies - as managing director of Sodexo and chief executive of Aramark.

Caterplus managing director Paul Robottom says that any operator in the care sector – private or public - must remember that they are dealing with people’s lives, not just providing a meal. The personalisation agenda being carried through by the Government into the care community is designed to allow users to make their own decisions about how their care money is spent.