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All the latest BM Caterers news, including podcasts, blogs, recipes, restaurant reviews and insightful reports.

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Coffee… A very important beverage in our business

Hello all This time I’m looking at Coffee; a very important beverage in our business. It provides excellent margin opportunities and if

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The quintessentially British dessert – Summer Pudding

To be honest I couldn’t pick a winner as they all tasted much the same. It’s a testament to the simplicity

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City checkers

There are very few opportunities during the working day for Wharfites to voyage out into real life and the developers

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Talk about being ultra-niche…

How many times have you popped to your local shop to grab a few beers, only wishing you could select

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Food outside of London…

I ate at Pitt Cue this month. I haven’t been there for a while and every so often I like

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Gin… all you ever needed to know

It was really interesting and indeed very educational, in fact fascinating, so I thought I would share some of the interesting

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Does Dude Food Still Rule?

Back then, dude food in the UK was just on the rise. Jamie Oliver was new to the scene and

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The Journey into Discovery

The food I see presented to our customers is soooo me. It’s creative, on trend and a pushes up the

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Social Eating and the New Wave of Fine Dining

A memorable example of invasiveness comes to mind from when I turned 30. I had frequented a very reputable restaurant

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DARE yourself

This is interesting, a high street caterer recently told me that when they calorie counted their items, their sales dropped

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The Great British Sarnie

The sandwich, along with the wheel and dynamite, is one of man’s greatest inventions. Initially created for the Earl of

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Truth and consequences

It has been a giant marketing campaign; miles of billboard adverts, acres of broadcast airtime, celebrity endorsements, sound-bites, slogans, and branded battle

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Not a fried Mars bar in sight!

We started our Scottish road trip in Edinburgh. Not too far from the border, this friendly city manages to balance

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I am man, I hunt food!

Sometimes the Winter months can test you in regards to seasonal menu writing. Don’t get me wrong we have some

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Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution

I am with Jamie Oliver on this one and urge all of you, particularly those in our industry, to sign

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‘The Look’

Whilst on my trip I had a range of different experiences in various hotels – all of the hotels were

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Simon’s Foodie Tour of South Africa

Constantia and surround We left Heathrow after a pretty tasty bowl of super noodles, sat on a lengthy 11 hour flight

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Russian Roulette

Where do they want to go? Do they want to try the latest restaurant, pop-up, or street food stand? No.

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Existentialism on the jubliee line

I have been to quite a few canapé events in my time and I knew that the people attending that

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I think there is something wrong with me!

I made only one New Year’s resolution – to eat less meat and to eat more vegetables, with the meat

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bartlett mitchell is a Sunday Times 100 Best Companies To Work For 2015

We were named one of the Top 100 Best Companies to Work for again in 2015. This is the third

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bartlett mitchell wins coveted Sustainability Award for second year running.

Francois Gautreaux, Managing Director for Bartlett Mitchell said “Receiving this award two years in a row is a great feather

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Sustainable Caterer of the Year for a second year running

“Catering in over 85 sites bartlett mitchell has the potential to make a real difference. This award demonstrates that the

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Those awful allergens

What I find most extraordinary is that some contract caterers are using this legislation as a means to insist that