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Marathon over, literally, and I was booked to visit Coya on Piccadilly with Tom an old friend I have had the pleasure of knowing for more years than I can remember, but it is at least 20. Coya, a phrase used … Continue reading → Read More...
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First published in the FSM Magazine in May 2013. Do you remember it? I thought you might. The Price Is Right was a television franchise around the world. In the show, contestants competed to win cash and prizes by guessing the … Continue reading...
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Several weeks back I received an invitation to attend the launch of a new brand “Gather & Gather” and I was taken by the professionalism and quality of branding on the communication. I hadn’t heard of them, so I looked … Continue reading →...
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2 May 2013
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A review by Paulina Herrmann, Support Consultant, Coverpoint Foodservice Consultants. It was that time again for another Coverpoint ‘road trip’ and so my colleague Daniel da Rocha, Management Consultant at Coverpoint, and I, boarded a train...
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26 Apr 2013
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As I left Shanghai on Friday morning, I was reminded of the moody and dark scenes that pervade the film Blade Runner. Set in a future world, the Ridley Scott directed epic is set in a noisy, vertical world, with … Continue reading → Read More...
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14 Apr 2013
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A review by Daniel da Rocha, Management Consultant, Coverpoint Foodservice Consultants For those unwilling (or simply unable) to cook on a Sunday there has always been a rather more, or less, appealing choice around. Whether you head down to your …...
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11 Apr 2013
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First Published in the FSM Magazine in April 2013. Regular readers of FSM will know that I am a keen observer of the “blending” between the different sectors in the foodservice industry. I woke up yesterday morning to the news … Continue reading...
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A review by Paulina Herrmann, Support Consultant, Coverpoint Foodservice Consultants. As I was planning my debut on the Coverpoint blog page I was thinking about a good choice for my first entry. Over recent weeks the news have been dominated …...
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17 Mar 2013
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First Published in the FSM Magazine in March 2013. There is no such thing as a free lunch. Since Christmas the consumers in the UK are beginning to get a taste, literally, of what that means. Price, again, has impacted … Continue reading →...
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First Published in the FSM Magazine in December 2012. dif·fer·ent/ Adjective: Not the same as another or each other; unlike in nature, form, or quality. Novel and unusual. Synonyms: Diverse – various – variant – unlike – distinct...
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First Published in the FSM Magazine in January 2013. As is traditional at this time of year, we tend to spend a little time looking back on the year that has just gone and looking forwards to the year that … Continue reading → Read More.....
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12 Feb 2013
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First published in the FSM Magazine in February 2013. As some of you may be aware, we have just celebrated 20 years at Coverpoint in the second week of January 2013. It has been an amazing two decade journey during … Continue reading → Read...
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An article by Rebecca Gibson, Support Consultant, Coverpoint Foodservice Consultants In recent years it has become a sort of tradition with my mum and me to go on an annual ‘mini break’ in the months leading up to Christmas. For … Continue reading...
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8 Feb 2013
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12th January 1993. What a day to remember. Well, maybe not for the majority of readers, but for me, it was a defining moment in my life. From a back bedroom of my house this day was the day that … Continue reading → Read More...
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A Review by Adam Griffin, Director, Coverpoint Foodservice Consultants Perhaps wrongly, but my immediate thoughts on dining at a Chinese restaurant with no menu, following the long-standing tradition of the Chinese Banquet, conjured up images of my local...