Tuesday, March 4, 2014

Food news

Despite offering a clutch of little, regionalised tender options, the BBC has awarded all its catering contracts to the South African-backed Servest Group. Servest didn't do catering until it bought Tamworth-based 7 Day Catering in January last year - the BBC put the catering contract out in May. 7 Day do IKEA's meatballs, staff catering for Tesco, Asda and Sainsbury, a couple of building firms like Laing O'Rourke and Travis Perkins, and Southern Water in Worthing. The only media company I can find is Lime Pictures, makers of Hollyoaks, based in Childwall, Liverpool.

Here are some of their menus (from 2011).

7 Day Managing Director is Henry Watts, previously with accountancy firm BDO. He appeared as an extra on a Question of Sport Christmas Special, dressed as Roland Rat throwing snowballs at the ‘mystery personality’ Santa.

Servest invest in their people: Here, they've made a record as a bonding exercise. It's called Quiet Thunder. Make your own jokes up.

2 comments:

  1. I'm told that the tendering process didn't involve any tastings of the kind of food that the bidder might be offering - BBC Workplace were happy to go on price.

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  2. I'm enjoying the linked menu, headed "7 Day Catering", followed by a menu for five days.

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