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Jan- 2023 -23 January
Heaven on earth: Heavenly Desserts’ international expansion
Catering Today sits down with Heavenly Desserts co-founder and managing director Yousif Aslam. He discusses the company’s 2022, its first Canadian store and future expansion plans. Could you just tell me a little bit about the history of the company? We opened our first store in Birmingham in 2008 and…
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16 January
Hot off the shelf: Jestic Foodservice Solutions launches Metro Hot Shelving in UK
The Super Erecta heated shelves are the latest innovation in short-term hot holding for the takeaway and other commercial catering sectors. Designed to keep food hot and ready to go, its flexible deign means its shelves can be configured any way imaginable. By combining with other Super Erecta shelving systems…
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16 January
The Ice Cream & Artisan Food Show: it’s ice cream time
The Ice Cream & Artisan Food Show is organised by the Ice Cream Alliance (ICA), the trade body for the ice cream sector. This year’s show will feature the biggest free seminars programme it has ever hosted. “We are delighted to have what we think is the most compelling seminar…
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12 January
Adam Hyman on the Happiness in Hospitality 2022 report
What is your background in hospitality and can you tell us a little bit about your career progression? I don’t have an official hospitality background so to speak; like a lot of people, I have dabbled in working in restaurants and pubs growing up. I studied and worked in commercial…
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9 January
Naughty Pizza expands from Bedfordshire to Dubai on its franchising journey
Naughty Pizza was founded in the heart of Bedfordshire, UK, and has become a hotspot, with people coming in from surrounding counties to try the contemporary, gourmet pizza cooked with genuine Italian ingredients. Founded in 2020, Naughty Pizza prides itself on authenticity. Nearly all ingredients are sourced from Italy –…
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Dec- 2022 -6 December
Here’s how the train strikes will impact hospitality
A new wave of fresh rail strikes have been scheduled this winter as Network Rail and 14 other train companies are taking strike action on 13, 14, 16 and 17 December and on 3, 4, 6 and 7 January. However, the chief executive of UKHospitality, Kate Nicholls, is worried about…
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1 December
The Grand, York, on hosting the Delifresh young chef competition
Can you tell us a little bit about what it was like to host the competition and what sort of preparations the venue had to make? Ahmed Abdalla: The conference itself was pretty straightforward. We met with Delifresh a few times, me and my events team, prior to the actual…
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Nov- 2022 -15 November
The viability of the roadside dining market
Roadside dining had its heyday some 50 years ago and when Little Chef, one of Britain’s most iconic and successful diner chains became defunct in 2018, it seemed like the extinction of the UK’s tenuous motor dining culture was finally complete. Four years on, and the nationwide operator Loungers of…
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10 November
Andy Lambert: ‘the perfect local restaurant’
Can you tell us a little bit about your career leading up to becoming head chef at the Bistro Union? I’ve been cooking professionally since I was 21, but if you’d asked me what I wanted to be when I was a young boy, I’d have said a chef. I…
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1 November
Operations behind Lusin, Mayfair’s first Armenian restaurant
Can you tell me about your career and how you came to be director of operations at Lusin Mayfair? I started hospitality management back in Lebanon, my home country, and I continued my master’s degree in the same field. At the same time I was working in restaurants, starting from…
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