The event was in support of Compass’ Women in Food programme, which aims to encourage women in the industry, with an overall goal of women forming 50% of the chef workforce at Compass by 2020.
Last year, 10 students joined Leith’s teams across the business at venues such as Glyndebourne as part of their year long diploma course.
Taking place in June at the NEC in Birmingham, 100 exhibitors will showcase cooking equipment, refrigeration, ventilation and storage.
The competition saw eight of the company’s best baristas shortlisted to four in the final who were tasked with a speed trial, followed by a 20 minute challenge to create four single espressos, four
The four products include two seeded rolls, a BLT and egg mayonnaise & cress, and two seeded wraps - tuna nicoise wrap and a chicken salad wrap.
The evening, which took place at the Lancaster London on Hyde Park in December, raised money through ticket sales, a table raffle and a star raffle that included a new Hyundai i10 up for grabs cour
The company reports ‘strong levels’ of new business wins and ‘good’ retention rates in the company’s latest trading update issued this morning. Like-for-like revenues increased ‘modestly’.
Gary Jones, head chef at Belmond Le Manoir aux Quat’Saisons has also been revealed as the new chair of judges, taking over from Clare Smyth MBE.
The five-year contract will see 62 Medirest Signature employees working at the hospital delivering services including a 24 hour patient dining offer.