Service in catering – advice from industry icons

Covid – a year on…

There is a shining light at the end of the tunnel…but what will the recruitment market look like as we claw our way out of this and how do candidates best equip themselves? Our phones at Troika Towers are definitely starting to ring again and thankfully with...
Free meat education programme through AHDB

Free meat education programme through AHDB

The Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB) is offering the Food Service Circle network access to a free, comprehensive and certified ‘Meat Education Programme’. The programme, which is now exclusively online, has seen more than 10,000 certificates being...
Career enhancement and development

Career enhancement and development

By Simon Macfarlane Over the past few months, my networking has resulted in a number of new opportunities in sectors that I have had little or no experience in – namely, the retail, education, defence and FM sectors.  If you’re looking for a new sector or looking to...
So….redundancy beckons!

So….redundancy beckons!

  It can be hard to rationalise the conflicting emotions of anger, frustration, despair, and sorrow that come to the surface as a result – all of which are exacerbated by familiar feelings of self-doubt. But it’s worth taking the time to sit with these thoughts and...
Finding focus during the pandemic

Finding focus during the pandemic

Nick Smith I think most people would agree that 2020 has been a year of disbelief, no more so than for the hospitality industry that is for sure. I can remember in the beginning, all the news circulating about Coronavirus and to be honest I never really took it that...