News & Views

From all at Red Box Consultancy Services, we sincerely wish you all a very Happy Christmas and all the very best for 2019.

Chris Webster joins the Red Box Team this November, as our new Consultant. 

Without tightly controlled trials, it is unclear how big an impact following a Mediterranean diet might have. However, it is certainly worth showcasing Mediterranean dishes and ingredients in menus and catering choices, as customers and the workforce focus more on health and wellbeing awareness within their daily lives.

Red Box are proud to introduce a support partnership with Fergus Walsh from Cater Consult. Fergus will be working with the team on larger projects and providing expertise in marketing, branding and conceptual design.

You can never be too careful. The impact can be devastating to all concerned as seen in recent news coverage whereby retailers have not been able to guarantee ingredients present in their products.

Clients often tell us that the contract monitoring service we provide, saves them a lot of time and effort in ensuring standards remain in place during the life of the contract, meal numbers are maintained, and the catering continues to develop.  Really it keeps the contractor on their toes!

Some of the UK's leading supermarkets, hospitality firms and food and drink producers have committed to an initiative from the Charity Waste & Resources Action Programme (WRAP) to halve food waste by measuring and acting on wastage levels across a "farm-to-fork" approach.

With colder and windy weather setting in, are provisions in place to protect the nutrition of our elderly neighbours?

Following the Blue Planet 2 effect, there is an increasing demand from consumers for sustainable food which is set to stay. With that in mind we thought that it was important to look at how this continuing trend affects the world of school catering, and whether it will benefit the sector in the long run.   

As September rolls in, and welcomes with it another school year, we here at Red Box can’t help but think about all our clients within the education industry. Having worked with many schools, academies and universities to produce diverse and sustainable catering solutions, the recent discussions about food waste at schools has got us thinking.