Features

The latest exclusive features, from industry figures and the business journalists at Catering Today. We bring you the latest on what’s happening in the restaurants, bars and catering industry, with exclusive stories, analysis, best practice and industry comment.

Mar- 2020 -

2 March

Health and Wellbeing – whose responsibility is it anyway?

The idea of trust between chefs and customers has been fundamental to my thinking since I started cooking over 25 years ago and is still uppermost in my mind with every dish I send out. The key pillars of this contract are that first and foremost it is safe to…
Read More »
Feb- 2020 -

25 February

Chlorinated chicken ain’t the way

The European Union will insist that the UK retains the current ban on chlorinated chicken as part of any free trade agreement that might be struck by the end of this year. It taps into one of the most symbolic arguments made during the last three years by those who…
Read More »
10 February

From market stalls to brick walls: how pop-ups are riding the bricks-and-mortar wave

Ka Pao With a name and menu that packs a punch, Ka Pao is Glasgow’s latest permanent resident. The new restaurant and bar features the same team who opened rustic Glaswegian site Ox and Finch back in 2014, a restaurant that has garnered much critical acclaim in the city. The…
Read More »
4 February

From barrister to restaurateur: Nisha Katona on her Indian street food chain

“I was a child protection barrister for 20 years but always with a completely blinding passion and obsession for the food of my ancestors – which is home-style Indian food,” says Nisha Katona, founder of Indian street food chain Mowgli. Katona started her restaurateur journey because she realised that a…
Read More »
Jan- 2020 -

30 January

Dining with the stars: a definitive list of celebrity-owned haunts

WHO: Ed Sheeran WHAT: Bertie Blossoms WHERE: Notting Hill Last August, Ed Sheeran shocked his fans by announcing an 18-month hiatus from music. It seems the singer has found a new calling, because it was only a month later that he launched his very own restaurant, Bertie Blossoms. The eatery,…
Read More »
27 January

Surplus fresh produce trends for 2020

January gets a bad rep. Let’s face it, the excitement of all the preceding festivities becomes a distant memory, the dark mornings and evenings seem to go on forever and we have to scroll through reems of diary to locate the next time there could, maybe, might, possibly be a…
Read More »
23 January

Asos bounces back from tricky period

Back in July last year Retail Sector reported that Asos was having problems. It had issued a profit warning, suggesting profits were likely to be about one-third of what was originally anticipated. It was an interesting moment in the retail world, because the narrative for the whole of the last…
Read More »
22 January

Trends that will shape food service in 2020

After a tough couple of years that have seen major chains falling like dominos, the foodservice industry last year saw the faintest glimmer of recovery. But it is still growing at under 1% per year, and considering the population of the UK is growing at around 0.6% a year, that…
Read More »
21 January

It’s not me, it’s you.

You hate the sight of each other, but it’s a song and dance you’ve become so familiar with. You’ve never known anything different. Each day starts and ends the same. You always meet each other in the same place. It’s all just getting a little monotonous. We’re of course talking…
Read More »
20 January

How to tailor your marketing for ‘Dry January’

National awareness months are a must to include in your business calendar, as they’re a great opportunity to develop and use creative marketing techniques to engage audiences and drive consumers towards your business. With Dry January in full swing, and over three million people attempting the challenge last year and…
Read More »