3 April 2018
Despite tight constraints, ATL delivers prestige project on time, in budget. The Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy factory in Hull builds massive wind turbine blades up to 75 metres long. It’s a growing business and, due to increasing demand, the factory’s catering provision began to develop a serious problem: the canteen couldn’t serve lunch quickly enough to the 300 staff, plus on-site contractors and visitors. The layout of the foodservice area caused such long queues that some people spent most of...
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28 March 2018
Chef Alan Evans says, “it gives you everything… and a little bit more.” When a radical cooking technology comes to market, the best way to find out about it is to see it in action. That’s why FEM has launched a series of live cooking demonstrations for the Vector multi-cook oven, which has been developed in the USA by Alto Shaam. The new concept features up to four cooking chambers in one compact body, using an innovative airflow design to...
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21 March 2018
CESA’s CEO seminars: insightful, interactive, challenging – and delivering strategies. CESA’s Building Business Seminars programme continues with three key topics: on 12th April it’s ‘Strategies for an Uncertain World’; ‘The Digital Transformation’ is on 7th June; and ‘Profit in a Low-Price, High-Cost Economy’ is on July 19th. All three take place at CESA’s offices at Rotherwick House, London E1W 1YZ, running from 10:30 – 14:00. The seminars, run by Martyn Drake, one the sector’s top business management consultants, are aimed...
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16 March 2018
British manufacturer Moffat is the specialist in hospital catering. Over more than five decades the company has developed a dedicated range, from regeneration trolleys, mobile servery solutions and Grab & Go merchandisers to custom built restaurant counters and ward kitchens. Typical of Moffat’s innovation is the Chillogen hospital foodservice trolley. It acts as a refrigerator, holding chilled food, and as a regen oven, heating the food up, and as a hot hold cabinet, holding food until it’s required. And it does all...
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14 March 2018
Show moves from September to October/November; nine grants of £2,500 up for grabs. GulfHost, the Dubai-based foodservice equipment show for the Middle East region, has moved the dates for the 2018 show. It will now run from October 30 to November 1 (the original dates were September 16 to 18). Meanwhile CESA has managed to negotiate with the Department of International Trade (DIT) to secure extra funding for UK catering equipment companies planning to exhibit. The Association now has access...
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