Issue 148 - December 2013
Inside This Issue
Pret's former managing director offers some invaluable advice at the lunch! show.
Pret's former managing director offers some invaluable advice at the lunch! show.
Lovebites founder Richard Smith, looks back at 24 years in the business.
Subway reveals plans to increase the number of stores in the UK and Ireland, we bring you details regarding the Food & Drink Expo at the end of March.
Mike Crofts, Development Chef, Raynor Foods, explains how he came up with some of his best sandwich ideas for the latest instalment in this popular new series.
Find out who won what and why at The Sammies and we bring you all of the results from the Sandwich Designer Of The Year 2014.
Tesco has opened a new concept food-to-go focused Express store in the City of London, FSC celebrates its 25th anniversary this year, a period when its development has run in tandem with the huge growth in manufactured sandwiches and food to go, both in the UK and in Europe.
Award-winning sandwich bar Cook & Garcia is to expand into new sites in the City of London. It’s time to start planning your sandwich recipes for this years British Sandwich Designer of the Year championships.
Entries are now being invited for the Sammies 2015.
Food to go has continued to be a star performer at Greencore “with continued good growth” and Greggs reinforce the value of ‘Primary Authority’ in test case.
Tesco has opened the second of its new concept food to go format stores. Wraps chain Wrap It Up! has enjoyed a period of extraordinary success under managing director.
We've got a full round up of the Sammies Awards and Sandwich Designer of the Year Competition.
The 2015 edition of our ever popular Sandwich Recipe Book is now online
LUNCH! Show - A number of big names from M&S, EAT., Pret, Greggs, Caffè Nero & Tortilla have been announced for the Working Theatre at the lunch! show. Plus our extensive exhibitor preview.
All the Sammies awards and pieces on individual award winners. Morrisons has dropped manufactured sandwiches in favour of making its own fresh sandwiches in store.
Costa has launched a new foodled concept, Costa Fresco. Tortilla, The UK’s largest takeaway and eat-in Mexican chain, is expanding rapidly with new outlets planned for Scotland and Dubai.
Benugo’s opens up new grab and go format store. Food to go specialist Street Eats has fleshed out some of the detail of its plans to open a new £4m state of the art sandwich factory near Heathrow.
Greggs to invest £100 million in new manufacturing centres of excellence, racklin is Newcastle’s latest sandwich business and one with a difference.
The 2016 edition of our ever popular Sandwich Recipe Book is now online
Comprehensive results coverage of all the Sammies Awards and the Sandwich Designer of the Year competition.
International Sandwich & Food to Go News and Café Culture staff will be on stand M243 at the lunch! show. See you there!
Soho Coffee has been discreetly building its presence as a quality artisan independent with a great food-led offer for the last few years. We would like to wish all our readers a Happy Christmas and a prosperous New Year!
Regional sandwich and food to go manufacturer Shaw & Lisle (S&L Catering) has gone into liquidation. What’s the secret to a successful supplier/foodservice operator relationship? Pret A Manger and Nature’s Way Foods probably know better than most after working together for 19 years.
Extreme weather conditions in continental Europe in the last few months from snow to frost and torrential rain, have impacted the supply of lettuce and other fresh vegetables to the retail and foodservice sectors in the UK and Ireland.
British Sandwich Week is just around the corner and bigger and better than ever - Sunday 14 to Saturday 20 May 2017.
British Sandwich Week generated a huge number of online articles and blogs this year (158,000) and around 7,000,000 Twitter interactions, probably the best response the British Sandwich Association has ever had.
The 2017 edition of our ever popular Sandwich Recipe Book is now online.
Our extensive lunch! showcase, with the best of the new product launches. Lesley Fong, a senior concept developer for Greencore, is proving to be one of the brightest talents on the food to go scene.
We look at the Co-op's expanding food to go range; chat with EAT's new Chief Eecutive Andrew Walker and catch up with the BSA's latest Brexit update.
We get the skinny on the new M&S food to go trials and Editor Simon Ambrose picks his Top Ten Sandwich Bars..
Sandwich chain EAT is understood to be looking at store closures as it explores ways to shore up the business in the face of high street pressures. One-third (31%) of consumers would eat out more if healthier options were more readily available.