“St Pancras's British Food Fortnight events proved really popular.”
Dominique Didinal, St Pancras International Railway
“Sales on one day during British Food Fortnight were up £400. Sales on the first week were up £1000!”
Atul Sodha, Londis store manager
“We love the idea of British Food Fortnight so much that we have extended the celebration for the whole of October.”
Richard Phillips, Chapel Down Restaurant, Kent
“There has been a significant increase in school meal uptake during British Food Fortnight.”
Mark Sleep, Client Services Manager for Kent County Council
“Our British Food Fortnight Bubble and Squeak pie sold out and we were only half way through lunch.”
Debbie King, Catering Manager, University of Brighton
“When is the next British Food Fortnight cookery lesson? Can we organise more?”
Parent at Kintore Way Children's Centre, London
“The British Food Fortnight campaign presents the prefect opportunity to get children interested in healthy eating”
Akhtar Zaman, Executive Member for Environmental Services, Bolton Council which organised for chefs to go into schools to teach children how to cook.
“We organised a school visit during British Food Fortnight to teach the children the importance of buying locally. It had a great response in the local media and we will certainly be taking part from now on.”
Stephen Jarvis, Menzies Pinewood Hotel
“2010 was another successful British Food Fortnight for ARAMARK. We invited over 250,000 of our customers each day to enjoy best British classics. We gave away 100,000 British-themed recipe cards to inspire customers to use local produce and cook at home. Our schools activity also goes from strength to strength and this year we were delighted to organise cooking classes in Sure Start Centres around the country as well.”
Val Carter, CR and Training Director, ARAMARK
“British Food Fortnight 2010 offered us the opportunity to run competitions with our retail and education customers. It has been tremendous to witness the creativity, passion and flair that the British culinary industry in this country has to offer. We are already looking forward to 2011!”
Sally Sturley, Head of Food Marketing at Brakes
“British Food Fortnight is a great opportunity for us to shout about the fact that our food is British and that Young's pubs support British suppliers. For 2010 we also ran a cask ale festival alongside our special British Food Fortnight menus so we celebrated the best of British food and drink which was really well received by our customers.”
Jayne Nelson, Retail Marketing Manager, Young & Co.'s Brewery
“Our Great British Breakfasts day for British Food Fortnight has been a great success with residents.”
Richard Herne, Catering Manager, Anchor Homes, the largest provider of care homes |
“I have never seen Harrod's Food Hall look so magnificent there were the most spectacular displays of British food I have ever seen in London.”
Susie Burnett, Harrods customer commenting on their Festival of British Food
“At 3663 we are extremely proud to have actively supported British Food Fortnight. Our customers have shown a lot of interest in the campaign and have made full use of the packs and posters along with a range of promotions we produced on our great British food lines.”
Vanessa Millard, Senior Marketing Manager, 3663
“All the Brookwood Partnership teams threw themselves into British Food Fortnight and had great fun working with schools during the event. Activities ranged from getting children to sample traditional foods like jellied eels to our staff dishing up crumbles with fruit from their own gardens and local farms.”
Kate Martin, Managing Partner, Brookwood Partnership catering group
“YHA is brimming with pride at once again being associated with the magnificent British Food Fortnight initiative. Around 10,000 guests have enjoyed the delights of our special menus created and delivered in an environment where British is King! We at the YHA take off our caps to salute all that is British in food and look forward with gusto to 2011!”
John Mcgrath, Food & Beverage Manager, YHA
“There was a fantastic turnout for St Paul's Cathedral's British Food Fortnight Harvest Swap Shop. Our most green-fingered customers brought boxes filled to the brim with home-grown pears,courgettes, broccoli and allotment potatoes and The Restaurant at St Paul's created some amazing dishes as a result”
Candice Webber, Head Chef at The Restaurant at St Paul's
“British Food Fortnight is always a great occasion and a brilliant way of highlighting to pupils the importance of using locally sourced produce”
Sara Kinsey, Teacher at Bradon Forest School, Swindon
“British Food Fortnight is going from strength to strength for our properties with lots of local producers involved. At Anglesey Abbey we set up a mini market, sold lots of locally grown food and our visitors loved it!”
Vincent Howard, Catering Manager at the National Trust's Anglesey Abbey
“By promoting British Food Fortnight to our new student intake, we not only found our sales rose significantly but we also had very positive customer feed back too. This is important at the start of term as it helps us gain a loyal customer base from the new students. We are now continuing to promote British produce in the University throughout the year.”
Mark Houghton, Executive Chef, University of Birmingham
“Compass Group was a proud supporter of British Food Fortnight 2010. It was a great opportunity to share our commitment to British farming with our clients. We developed a number of new dishes especially for the Fortnight celebrating traditional British favourites and we served these in over 1,200 businesses. Our chefs also developed a series of recipes for customers to take home and try too!”
Nick Vadis, Executive Chef, Compass Group UK & Ireland |
