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Looking Back, Looking Forward….
First Published in the FSM Magazine in January 2013. As is traditional at this time of year, we tend to spend a little time looking back on the year that has just gone and looking forwards to the year...
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Daring To Be Different!
First Published in the FSM Magazine in December 2012. dif·fer·ent/ Adjective: Not the same as another or each other; unlike in nature, form, or quality. Novel and unusual. Synonyms: Diverse – various...
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Breaking the “Chains” to Cheap Food
First Published in the FSM Magazine in March 2013. There is no such thing as a free lunch. Since Christmas the consumers in the UK are beginning to get a taste, literally, of what that means. Price,...
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Terre a Terre –“Down to Earth” Vegetarian Cuisine
A review by Paulina Herrmann, Support Consultant, Coverpoint Foodservice Consultants. As I was planning my debut on the Coverpoint blog page I was thinking about a good choice for my first entry. Over...
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The “High Street Halo”
First Published in the FSM Magazine in April 2013. Regular readers of FSM will know that I am a keen observer of the “blending” between the different sectors in the foodservice industry. I woke up...
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Blue Boar Smokehouse & Bar
A review by Daniel da Rocha, Management Consultant, Coverpoint Foodservice Consultants For those unwilling (or simply unable) to cook on a Sunday there has always been a rather more, or less, appealing...
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M on the Bund, Shanghai
As I left Shanghai on Friday morning, I was reminded of the moody and dark scenes that pervade the film Blade Runner. Set in a future world, the Ridley Scott directed epic is set in a noisy, vertical...
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Magnificent TrinityLeeds
An article by Daniel da Rocha, Management Consultant, Coverpoint Foodservice Consultants. TrinityLeeds was one of the first major shopping centre development projects I worked on as a ‘Support...
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Anthony’s – Fine Dining at the Corn Exchange
A review by Paulina Herrmann, Support Consultant, Coverpoint Foodservice Consultants. It was that time again for another Coverpoint ‘road trip’ and so my colleague Daniel da Rocha, Management...
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Gather and Gather – Food and FM in Perfect Harmony?
Several weeks back I received an invitation to attend the launch of a new brand “Gather & Gather” and I was taken by the professionalism and quality of branding on the communication. I hadn’t heard...
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The Price Is Right
First published in the FSM Magazine in May 2013. Do you remember it? I thought you might. The Price Is Right was a television franchise around the world. In the show, contestants competed to win cash...
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Coya – Taste explosions and corn, lots of corn
Marathon over, literally, and I was booked to visit Coya on Piccadilly with Tom an old friend I have had the pleasure of knowing for more years than I can remember, but it is at least 20. Coya, a...
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It’s service Jim but not as we know it!
First published in the FSM Magazine in June 2013. Okay. Confession time. For those of you that are “Trekkies”, you know this title isn’t right. Many of you know that Mr Spock’s supposed reply to...
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Dabbous, Fitzrovia –“Better than sex”
Dabbous restaurant and bar launched on Whitfield Street in Fitzrovia in late January 2012, the first solo venture from Ollie Dabbous, formerly of Michelin-starred Texture, and mixologist Oskar Kinberg,...
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Special Speceriet, Sweden
A review by Louis Esner and Paulina Herrmann, Support Consultants at Coverpoint. As the end of a busy month drew closer, half the Coverpoint team jet-setted across Europe on business. For us two, our...
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Putting Lincoln on the Food Map
An article by Louis Esner, Support Consultant at Coverpoint. Having lived in Lincoln for 3 years as a student at the University of Lincoln, I always keep a keen interest in what is happening with the...
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Homeslice Pizza, Neals Yard, London
A review by Louis Esner, Support Consultant at Coverpoint. I love Pizza. I’m sure many people reading this also love pizza. Personally what I find nowadays with pizza is that it all becomes very samey,...
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Five Guys first, but will it be second to Shake Shack?
An article by Adam Griffin – Director, Coverpoint Foodservice Consultants The foodservice industry has come a long way since I first got involved more than a quarter of century ago as a young and naïve...
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Hello Danny! – Shake Shack opens in Covent Garden
A blog by Paulina Herrmann, Support Consultant at Coverpoint. Another day, another American Burger restaurant opening for the very first time in the UK. Following Adam Griffins ‘on the ground’ report...
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The Crippling Cost of Competition
First published in the FSM Magazine in July 2013. I thought, to start the article this month, I should provide a small extract from a document provided to us by a potential Client, who was having...
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