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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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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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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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I was a young thirty-something when Mrs Thatcher came to power in 1979. Three years before, Louise and I had left London to join the family business in Taunton. At that time, the country was an economic basket case while The Castle had plodded along as...
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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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17 Mar 2013
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“Faites simple!” commanded the legendary chef, Auguste Escoffier. These two immortal words are probably the most famous in the culinary lexicon. They are also the two words most ignored and abused by legions of young chefs today – cooks...
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Nearly £50 million pounds. Every little helps, especially if you are one of the funders exiting at this stage of the foodservice life of Giraffe. Tesco’s move to snap up the child-friendly restaurant chain has been well covered today, but …...
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The A38 linking Exeter to Plymouth is a super-expressway so fast that you bypass Ashburton in a blink. Casual hearsay led us this small town on the southern fringes of Dartmoor National Park - more out of curiosity than in any high expectation. But moments...
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In the sixty-something years my family has run The Castle at Taunton, the world has changed with alarming speed. Today, for example, the instant society we inhabit has grafted the smartphone to our skins. These devices are so much a part of our anatomy...
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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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A review by Adam Griffin, Director, Coverpoint Foodservice Consultants. It’s the beginning of the year 2013. Back into the work groove, well almost – my flight to Prague has been delayed for an hour or so. We are off to … Continue reading...
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A review by Ian Hanlon, Director, Coverpoint Foodservice Consultants. Back in 2007 we ‘set sail’ on a very special mission, providing strategic advice on the foodservice provision, feasibility, design and logistics for the Titanic Belfast development...
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9 Feb 2013
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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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Filed under: Industry Comment, People, Uncategorized, Unit Reviews, Shopping and Leisure, Coverpoint, Coverpoint Foodservice Consultants, Erie Street, top restaurants in Chicago, Ryan Poli, food in chicago, Chicago Restaurants, Tavernita Chicago, Rebecca Gibson