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Friday evenings with Elior UK at Lloyd's in the city 🏙️ A really good evening chatting to all Lexington Catering site managers introduced them to The Coconut Collab in various formats! Any site managers with Elior have the contract, hit me UP! 🤙 hashtag#CoconutCollab
Here's our Elior UK team at the recent Footprint Media Waste2Zero Awards where we proudly took home the Best Food Waste Prevention Project Award and were also ‘Highly Commended’ for the Best Waste Reduction Technology Award. Awards like these remind us of the type of progress that's possible when innovation, teamwork, and dedication come together. So, a big thank you and well done to Charlotte Wright, Calvin Grant, Hannah Craig, Sarah Keane and everyone who has been involved in rolling out our in-house food waste reduction reporting technology. With a 30% reduction in food waste this year the results speak for themselves! hashtag#Sustainability hashtag#FoodWasteReduction hashtag#Teamwork hashtag#Waste2ZeroAwards
Exciting news! We’ve been shortlisted for two categories at the 2025 Restaurant Marketer & Innovator Awards. Our nominations include: - The Mindful Kitchen, recognised in the Best New Product Development category. This umbrella brand highlights our company-wide sustainable and wellbeing-focused innovations - Lexington Green Force, shortlisted for Best Community/Charitable Initiative, celebrating our network of employee champions who drive meaningful environmental and social impact at both site and individual levels A massive thank you to our incredible teams for their dedication and hard work on this achievement. It’s so great to see contract catering celebrated within the restaurant industry! Huge congratulations to Elior UK as well for being shortlisted in the Best Use of Data, Insight, and Research category for their Street Kitchen Collective initiative. We can’t wait for the awards ceremony in January, good luck to all the nominees.
Our current Chef School cohort, who are making outstanding strides on their journey to becoming chefs. The cohort consists of 14 aspiring chefs, all of whom are either general assistants or kitchen porters from our Healthcare, Education, and Business & Industry sectors. They’re already two classes into their 5-class program and intensely focused on developing themselves and progressing their careers, embracing the support that Elior UK provides. This particular session was a hands-on experience packed with culinary skills and techniques, including deboning a chicken, carving with precision, and perfecting the art of shortcrust pastry. Elior UK’s award-winning Chef School empowers our colleagues to advance their culinary careers through a modular program that emphasises practical chef skills aligned with our food concepts. Chef School supports both personal and professional growth, including enhancing financial acumen, reflecting our commitment to providing opportunities for development and progression, enabling all our colleagues to thrive and transition into exciting new roles.
Leading caterer, Elior UK, has worked with Water Unite for the past five years and has donated over £100,000 towards Water Unite’s championed programmes in East Africa, funding progressive initiatives to support water, sanitation and recycling projects. Today, on World Water Day, Elior has expanded its fundraising partnership by collaborating with Britvic, one of its key suppliers, to increase future donations.
Elior provides student catering at the University of Roehampton’s campus restaurants and noticed that many preferred the ease and convenience of ordering takeaways directly to their halls of residence.
Last week, our amazing Elior UK team at The James Hutton Institute played their part to help ensure the perfect visit for UK secretary for State for Scotland, Ian Murray MP, and First Minister of Scotland, John Swinney MSP. A huge shout out to our Cleaning Supervisor, Stephanie Brown, and the entire cleaning team for your hard work preparing the new building for its grand opening, setting the perfect stage for this important event and representing the Institute beautifully.
A big shout out this Friday morning to members of our Elior UK Purchasing team who recently spent time volunterring at Refettorio Felix, in London, a drop-in centre and community kitchen serving vulnerable people in Earl’s Court and beyond. It's an incredible charity with an open-door policy, welcoming without judgement anyone struggling with a wide variety of issues, such as homelessness, loneliness, substance abuse and mental health difficulties.
Photo of our Elior UK team at last week's annual McCarthy Stone Foundation Gala, held at Athena in Leicester. We've enjoyed a long partnership with McCarthy Stone and were thrilled to win the 2024 Supply Chain Award for Customer Supplier of the Year. In the words of Alex Beaumont, Food and Beverage Manager at McCarthy Stone........ “Elior have done an exceptional job planning and executing the mobilisation of 63 developments. It was a true team effort where Elior colleagues came together from across the business to spend three days in the changing developments to ensure a smooth transition. Some left home at 4am and travelled hundreds of miles to make this all happen for McCarthy Stone. There was no adverse feedback from homeowners or from the colleagues moving across so that was testament to a job extremely well done” Congratulations Gill Heath and your team for this well deserved recognition.
Congratulations to the proudest man in the room! Winner of the food service catey for retail, stadia and leisure! Craig Stewart
