Restaurant Associates
Covers news and developments from a leading contract catering and hospitality provider serving corporate, leisure, and cultural venues across the UK. Content includes major client wins, menu innovation, sustainability initiatives, leadership appointments, and investment in technology and service. Also features case studies on high-profile partnerships and insights into evolving workplace and event catering trends.
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Feb- 2023 -28 FebruaryCatering Companies
Restaurant Associates to cater for Unity Place
Restaurant Associates has recently won the contract to cater for all food and beverage outlets at Unity Place, a state-of-the-art co-working location which is set to open in Milton Keynes in the early summer of 2023. Unity Place will also be the new headquarters for Santander UK, as well as…
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Nov- 2022 -9 NovemberRestaurants
Restaurant Associates acquires Rocket Food
Luxury event caterer Rocket Food has been sold to Restaurant Associates, part of Compass Group. The acquisition aims to increase Rocket and Restaurant Associates’ presence in the luxury hospitality sector across the UK. The transaction will also support Rocket with developing its sustainability and supply chain credentials and provide the…
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Jul- 2022 -26 JulyNews
Restaurant Associates appoints 3 regional managing directors
Restaurant Associates has announced the appointment of three new regional managing directors across its nationwide estate. Sara Senior, previously sales and retention director, moves to regional managing director with a remit to oversee Restaurant Associates’ key London clients. Ming Lai joined Compass Group Australia over a decade ago, before coming…
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May- 2022 -25 MayRestaurants
Revamped Nether Wallop set to open this summer
Restaurant Associates and executive chef Steve Groves have announced the launch of a new casual dining concept, the revamped Nether Wallop restaurant, which will open this summer at Glyndebourne Festival 2022. The restaurant’s menu has been built around a core philosophy of sustainability, aiming to “work closely with award-winning local…
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Jan- 2022 -4 JanuaryCatering Companies
Lexington appoints new managing director
Lexington has appointed Matt Wood as its new managing director to lead the business into its next phase of growth, effective from 5 January 2022. He will replace Julia Edmonds who has been promoted to corporate business development director at Elior, and is also non-executive chair for Lexington. In his…
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Dec- 2021 -2 DecemberNews
Just Eat bolsters enterprise client base with two key appointments
Just Eat for Business (JEfB) has announced two key appointments in its UK commercial team with Matthew Fox as head of enterprise sales and James Greetham, founder and MD of Sprung Collective as an industry consultant partner. It revealed Fox joins the catering company following “multiple” years of experience at…
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Jul- 2021 -1 JulyPeople
Hilton unveils senior F&B appointments in EMEA region
Hilton has unveiled three senior appointments in its EMEA corporate F&B team, which are set to bring a “wealth of in-depth industry knowledge and experience” to the team. Hannah Davies will join as senior director of F&B Brand Development, EMEA, while Felix Hartmann will act as director of F&B, Continental…
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Jun- 2021 -23 JuneCatering Companies
RA Venues wins Imperial War Museum contract
Restaurant Associates (RA) Venues, a premium hospitality company, has won a contract to provide catering and hospitality services at the Imperial War Museum (IWM) London. Through the three-year contract, RA Venues will be responsible for all food and beverage operations for both day catering and events at the museum. The…
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Dec- 2020 -3 DecemberCatering Companies
Compass names Matt Thomas as MD for RA Group
Compass Group UK and Ireland has announced the appointment of Matt Thomas to its executive team as MD of RA Group on 4 January 2021. RA Group is a collection of specialist food and guest services companies and includes Restaurant Associates, Rapport, RA Venues and commercial restaurant partnerships including City…
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Jan- 2020 -27 JanuaryComment
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…
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