You can now book for the British Hospitality Association’s Annual Luncheon, on Wednesday, 27th June, which includes the ‘Inaugural Annual Lecture’ and takes place at London’s Grosvenor House. The speaker has been confirmed as Visiting Professor of Forecasting and Innovation at De Montfort University, and established physicist, broadcaster, author, and columnist; James Woudhuysen. He will address the trends that are likely to shape the future of the hospitality industry.
For further information or to reserve your place, please contact Camilla Woods at the BHA on 0207 404 7744, or email camilla.woods@bha.org.uk.

Representatives were in College today demonstrating the websites for Just-food; and Just-drinks and discussing different membership packages. They are going to set us up with a trial to both sites, but for this trial each interested party will require a separate log-in

Please could you have a look here (for the Food site) and here for the drinks site, and let me know if you would like be part of the trial. I will then give you an idea of the costs of subscribing to each service, and you can tell me whether you think this seems value for money. Sections on the sites include News and Comments from around the Globe on Food and drink related issues; monthly management briefings; information on relvant reports from other providers; jobs and events. Hope it'll be of interest to you!

Researchers at Columbia University have found that regularly tucking into a full English Breakfast could double our risk of developing Chronic Lung Diesase, and other debilitating chest conditions more traditionally associated with smoking., such as bronchitis, emphysema and chronic obstructive airways disease.
As Britons appetite for cured meat products is increasing, our susceptibility to these conditions is also growing, in addition to the raising of our Cholesterol levels.
Read the full article here

Chocaholics...

Have you munched your way through all your Easter Eggs then? I’ve still got a tiny bit of mine left! I know it’s nearly 2 weeks ago now, but I thought you might enjoy a few choccy facts…

We Brits lead the way with our spending on the confectionery, with an average of £72 per head a year, and also on the consumption; devouring 10 kilos on average, or 25% of all the choccy eaten across Europe. Last year we managed, as a nation, to put away 80 million Easter eggs AND 500 MILLION cream eggs!!

The First chocolate egg was produced by Fry’s in 1873

The most expensive egg ever offered was the Diamond Stella Egg last year – A chocolate egg laden with diamonds. It cost a wopping £50,000 !

And finally, the largest egg ever made was a chocolate and marshmallow one, recorded in South Africa in 1996. It weighed 4,068 kilos and it had to be supported by an internal steel frame!