Plant-Based
This features our editorial coverage of plant-based food trends, innovation, and menu development across the UK hospitality and catering landscape. We report on restaurant launches, supplier partnerships, chef-driven concepts, and high street brand strategies driving the growth of plant-based eating. With analysis of consumer demand, sustainability messaging, and operational execution, this content supports chefs, operators, and F&B leaders seeking to evolve plant-forward offerings in restaurants, pubs, contract catering, and multi-site foodservice settings.
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Feb- 2023 -2 FebruaryNews
Lexington wins Hurlingham School catering contract
Independent school caterer, Lexington Independents, has announced it has won the contract to provide the catering services for Hurlingham School’s preparatory and nursery schools based in Putney, London. A team of fifteen Lexington Independent employees – including two head chefs – will be serving up food for the children, aged…
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Jan- 2023 -17 JanuaryCatering Companies
Q Catering awarded ICM contract
Kent-based wholesale distributor Q Catering has announced that it has been awarded a sole supply agreement with Independent Catering Management (ICM). ICM has been around for over 26 years and provides meals to over 90 schools in Kent, Surrey and Sussex cooking thousands of meals a day. Furthermore Q has…
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13 JanuaryRestaurants
Halo Burger and Sessions announce five-kitchen partnership
Plant-based food concept, Halo Burger, has announced a five-kitchen partnership with distribution platform Sessions to deliver its vegan burgers across all of London. Halo Burger and Sessions, which was launched by the former managing director of Deliveroo, Dan Warne, will deliver from Richmond, Canary Wharf, Finsbury Park and Queen’s Park,…
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3 JanuaryCatering Companies
Higher proportion of vegan and vegetarian dishes sold in 2022, Sodexo finds
Sodexo has published its food sales data showing a year-on-year increase in the proportion of vegetarian and vegan meals sold across 476 of its UK and Ireland client sites. According to the data from January to November 2022, which are based on EPOS data sales of over 240,000 meals across…
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Dec- 2022 -22 DecemberRestaurants
The Breakfast Club to partner with Redefine Meat in January 2023
The Breakfast Club will be partnering with Redefine Meat in January 2023 to offer vegan and vegetarian dishes across all restaurants. A new Redefine Meat menu will also be launched to coincide with Veganuary. All sites will get two new Veganuary specials, the works, a veggie and vegan fry-up, and…
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9 DecemberRestaurants
25 hospitality leaders host zero carbon roundtable
Some 25 leaders from hospitality organisations including Azzuri, Greene King, IHG, Gaucho, Revolution Bars, Peach 2020, Punch Pubs and WSH joined together as part of the Zero Carbon Forum CEO/CFO roundtable held at Carousel, London, to discuss how the sector can decarbonise while the industry is facing multiple crises. The…
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Nov- 2022 -23 NovemberRestaurants
En Root opens third London restaurant in Ritzy Cinema
En Root, the plant-based Indian restaurant, has opened its third South London restaurant at the Ritzy Cinema in Brixton. It will follow in the footsteps of its Clapham and Peckham siblings, serving up home-cooked Indian meals. The menu will feature En Root staples such as the ‘Raja Wrap and ‘Don…
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2 NovemberVenues & Properties
Boxpark introduces four new food traders
Boxpark is set to introduce four new food traders across its sites in Shoreditch and Croydon, including two brand-new vegan food traders. Vegan Wing Shack, the sister brand to Wing Shack Co, will open in Boxpark Shoreditch this month. Wing Shack was founded in 2017 by three friends, and after…
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Oct- 2022 -18 OctoberBusiness
Vegan burger restaurant Frost Burgers enters administration
Frost Burgers, a vegan burger restaurant in Manchester and Liverpool, has entered into administration following “financial distress”. Paul Stanley and Jason Greenhalgh from Begbies Traynor have been appointed as joint administrators after the vegan restaurant chain ceased trading last month. The firm is now looking for someone to buy the…
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Sep- 2022 -29 SeptemberBusiness
Big Table Group acquires Banana Tree
The Big Table Group, operator of Las Iguanas, Bella Italia and Café Rouge, has acquired the fast-casual Pan-Asian restaurant chain, Banana Tree, adding a new cuisine flavour to its family of restaurant brands. The group said Banana Tree is famous for its authentic, exotic and street-food inspired dishes, with flavours…
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