Research/Insight

What apprenticeships are available at McDonald’s? •    Since January 2009, McDonald’s has been providing its employees with the opportunity to gain an Intermediate Apprenticeship in Hospitality and Catering (level 2), which is accredited by leading awarding body City & Guilds

British consumers manage to munch their way through over 11.5 billion sandwiches each year – and more than half of these were made and eaten in the home; Well over 3,250,000,000 sandwiches are purchased from retail or catering outlets each year and we paid over £6,500,000,000 for them – making the average price of a sandwich almost £2.00

There are no boundaries when it comes to breakfast. As more people skip this meal at home, it offers operators the perfect chance to offer anything from a full breakfast to a cup of coffee or tea with a sweet treat to fill the gap. It is now one of the most lucrative and competitive sectors for operators and can even boost lunchtime sales as time-pressed consumers kill two birds with one stone and pick up their lunch at the same time.

Customers in 23 countries across Europe are now served in a total of 13,826 coffee chain outlets with turnover topping E15 billion. And the UK is seen as the flagship of this burgeoning market. The impressive figures were revealed in Allegra Strategies’ Project 12 Cafe Europe report presented by managing director Jeffrey Young at the fifth annual Coffee Symposium in Amsterdam.

It seems as though QR codes have been heralded as the next frontier of marketing for years. But research from Canadean Consumer showed that they are still barely used. Despite nine in 10 having noticed them – and 22% of consumers claiming to see them on packaging “regularly” – fewer than one in five has ever scanned them using their phone.

It seems as though QR codes have been heralded as the next frontier of marketing for years. But research from Canadean Consumer showed that they are still barely used. Despite nine in 10 having noticed them – and 22% of consumers claiming to see them on packaging “regularly” – fewer than one in five has ever scanned them using their phone.

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

Italian Gelateria, ‘Gelato Gusto’, opened just before Easter in the heart of Brighton’s North Laine. Adams said: “Opening Gelato Gusto was a complete career change – the result of the creativity of my designer background (a career I enjoyed prior to my TV work) combined with my great fondness for a much-loved ice cream parlour in L’Escala Costa Brava.