Portico, the specialist guest services provider, announced today (12 November) that it has been chosen to supply a range of resident and guest services at 22 Bishopsgate, the City of London’s new “vertical village’.
Acuity, the Axis Group’s front-of-house service provider, has won a new contract to provide reception, concierge and event support services at 100 New Oxford Street.
Andron Facilities Management has taken a five-year combined soft services contract with Jones Lang La Salle (JLL) at five retail centres across the UK.
Facilities services company Sodexo has extended its partnership with Solent University, Southampton, following a competitive re-tender of the catering and hospitality contract.
Hospitality serves provider Bennett Hay has answered the drive for cost efficiencies at workplaces and commercial estates by creating a concierge service integrating reception and hosting with building security.
Nick Smith is not only the newly crowned Craft Guild of Chefs National Chef of the Year, he is also the second chef from the contract catering sector to win the title in the competition’s 48-year history.
Contract caterers went from feeding buildings full of people to grappling with reduced work and earnings as well as job losses — all in a matter of weeks. Nevertheless, the sector believes that despite the challenges, there is hope through innovation and flexibility. Bradford Keen reports.
The hospitality sector is prepared for the further restrictions that have been introduced as a result of the mounting threat of a second wave outbreak of the coronavirus, according to some figures in the industry.
