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Isolation – growing pings of the opening economy

Leave a Comment / Sustainability, COVID-19, Living Wage, Society, Support the Community, Training, Treat Staff Fairly / By emmaSRA

By Kate Dranginis, The Sustainable Restaurant Association As the economy is opening up, we’re often hearing about hospitality venues struggling with staff members being ‘pinged’ by Track and Trace apps and being forced to isolate despite being symptomless and providing negative tests. Of course, the Track and Trace apps are to keep us as safe as possible, but it’s the amount of pings that are causing …

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How do the staffing crisis, sustainability, and mental health intersect?

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By Emma Carroll-Monteil, The Sustainable Restaurant Association When considering what defines a sustainable business, often we primarily think about resources, materials, and emissions – sometimes overlooking the importance of social sustainability. Without colleagues and staff feeling supported, it is easy even for companies which are based on the pillars of sustainability to collapse. As great as it is when a business pushes environmentally friendly foods and practices, if …

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More than half of ethnic minority hospitality professionals experience or witness racism at work – what now?

Leave a Comment / Treat Staff Fairly, Society, Training / By Tom Tanner

By Lorraine Copes, Founder, Be Inclusive Hospitality In November 2020, we teamed up with survey partner CPL Learning to launch an industry wide Inside Hospitality Survey. A sector first, we created the survey to capture hospitality professionals’ experiences of race, bias and career progression. The survey captured experiences of a sample of 387 hospitality professionals …

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How can we fix the staffing crisis?

Leave a Comment / Treat Staff Fairly, Brexit, Chefs, Innovation, Insight, Restaurants, Society, Training / By Tom Tanner

By Tom Tanner The statistics are eye-watering. A survey published this week by UK Hospitality shows that at least eight out of ten employers in the sector have vacancies – either front of house or in the kitchen – adding up to almost 200,000 unfilled posts. Brexit, furlough fatigue and fear of further lockdowns, allied …

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Save your energy for a greener year

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized, Climate change, COVID-19, Energy, Environment, Innovation, Technology, Training, Value Natural Resources / By Tom Tanner

By Robert Cheesewright, Director of Communications at Smart Energy GB With restaurants across the UK coping with the impact of the pandemic, reaching the moment that operation can resume at capacity is a work in progress for many people. But with financial matters likely to take priority, it’s important efforts to be sustainable remain on …

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Gain visibility on food waste

Leave a Comment / Food Waste, Food Waste Bad Taste, Sustainability, Training / By thersa

Winnow builds AI tools to help chefs run more profitable and sustainable kitchens by cutting food waste. Food waste is a serious issue with ⅓ of all food being wasted. Chefs often waste food because they lack the right tools to give them the necessary information to control their kitchens. At Winnow, our mission is …

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Friends House helps men’s charity to have cake and eat it

Leave a Comment / Charity, Community Engagement, Fair Trade, Local sourcing, Members, News, Organic, Restaurants, Sourcing, Training / By thersa

By Jamie Scott, Catering Manager, Friends House Two years ago, Friends House started working with the Douglas House Project (DHP) helping them to launch their social enterprise catering project, a bakery. Being a Quaker organisation, the staff at Friends House devised a set of commitments, one of these being to treat everybody equally and …

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Clink graduates: your solution to the skills gap

Leave a Comment / Charity, Community Engagement, Members, Restaurants, Society, Training / By thersa

Chris Moore, Chief Executive, The Clink Charity For those of you that have visited one of The Clink Restaurants, all four of which are 3-star Food Made Good rated, you will be aware of our unique fine-dining experience that challenges perceptions whilst representing a genuine opportunity to break the cycle of crime, reduce re-offending and …

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Staff, the best judge of a good employer

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By James Stagg, Deputy Editor, The Caterer Do you really know what makes your employees tick? It may seem like a simple question, but how often do you stop to consider what really matters to your people? With the background of Brexit, finding and keeping the best people has never been more critical. And understanding …

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Make volunteering work for you – The Breakfast Club way

Leave a Comment / Awards, Society, Support the Community, Training / By thersa

Do well by doing good. That’s the motto of The Breakfast Club (TBC) and while they are almost certainly too modest to say so themselves, the ten site all-day eatery appears to be doing just that. We might even be so bold as to say they’re making food good, very good – in a special, …

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