• Thursday, February 23 2017

    Smith Anderson’s Hot’n’Crispy gets even hotter

    The options of hot food-to-go dishes that foodservice operators now offer has exploded, and enjoying hot foods has become an all year round trend. To keep food hot and customers

  • Wednesday, February 22 2017

    Food On-The-Go Trend 2017 – Ready, Set, Action, For Gourmet Popcorn

    In a new series of blogs for 2017 we’re bringing food operators the latest trends for the on-the-go food market.  From Acai bowls and Poke, to Bao burgers and rolled

  • Thursday, February 16 2017

    Brunch, glorious brunch

    The traditional pattern of three meals a day is becoming less common, particularly with millennials, and the culture of grazing and eating meals at any time during the day is

  • Thursday, February 16 2017

    EU Food Information Regulations (FIR)

    In December 2014 the EU Food Information for Consumers Regulation (FIR) came into force, requiring foodservice operators to provide allergen information for all food on the premises. In back-of-house areas,

  • Thursday, February 16 2017

    How to choose the correct back-of-house food safety labels

    Food safety labels come in many different formats - from permanent and temperature withstanding to removable and dissolvable. Bespoke food safety labels are sometimes used to provide colour-coding or terminology

  • Thursday, February 16 2017

    Matching a napkin to its task

    When choosing the right napkins for your catering operation it͛s important to think about what tasks the napkins will be required to complete. To help you identify some suitable napkin

  • Wednesday, February 15 2017

    Bowl food: all the comforts of home, while on the go

    You may be wondering how ‘bowl food’ can be a trend. It’s not a recipe or an ingredient, in fact this trend is based more around the serving vessel than

  • Thursday, February 9 2017

    Are Biodegradable Products Good for the Environment?

    Ask the Expert: Jo Gilroy (Head of Sustainability). We asked our Sustainability expert ‘Is biodegradable food packaging is a sustainable solution?’ And here’s what she told us…

  • Tuesday, February 7 2017

    Packaging Innovations Exhibition

    On Thursday 2 March, our Head of Sustainability, Jo Gilroy will be speaking at Packaging Innovations exhibition in Birmingham. Presenting in the Ecopack Theatre at 2.50pm, Jo will be talking

  • Monday, February 6 2017

    PET Cup Inserts: Making Grab n’ Go easier

    Take a look on the grab n’ go shelves of coffee shops and supermarkets and what were once unimaginative combinations of sandwiches, bags of high saturated crisps and pots of

  • Friday, February 3 2017

    Disposable paper cup recycling challenge launched for London’s Square Mile

    This April, charity group Hubbub, in partnership with Simply Cups will begin the Square Mile Challenge, a project to collect and recycle disposable paper cups in the City of London.

  • Tuesday, January 31 2017

    Food On-The-Go Trend 2017 – Say Aloha To Poke!

    In a new series of blogs for 2017 we’re bringing food operators the latest trends for the on-the-go food market.  From Acai bowls and Poke, to Bao burgers and rolled