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Smile and speed up to please your customers
The key to boosting your business’s online ratings may be more simple than anyone realised. The message from some recent analysis is to get back to basics – be nice to your customers and hurry up with their order. Those are (more or less) the takeaways from a new report by social review tracker Feed…
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Still going big on the Full English Breakfast
We are spending more than ever before on dining out for breakfast. Nationally breakfast income is up by a more than healthy 31 per cent since 2011. Last year we spent a whopping £76 million on eating out for breakfast – every day. Breakfast is the biggest growth sector for eating out – far outstripping…
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Childhood obesity problem growing worse
The rate of obesity in children aged between ten and eleven has increased by more than one-third over the last 12 years, according to latest research. Data from the national Child Measurement programme overseen by Public Health England reveals that childhood obesity rates in the poorest parts of the country are double those in the…
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Join our team – vacancies at Whitco
If you’re looking for an exciting new career challenge for 2019 and you’ve got what it takes to join our great team, we’d love to hear from you…
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Vegan food moves into the lookalike market
The vegan ‘bleeding’ burger has arrived in the UK, providing a meat-free alternative for vegans, vegetarians and flexitarians. The plant-based alternative to the world’s favourte hot sandwich has been gaining grund in restaurant chains around the UK and is now set to break into the retail market in 2019. British company Moving Mountains has teamed…
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More smaller pubs calling final ‘last orders’
Britain’s pubs are disappearing fast – more than a quarter have called last orders for the final time since 2000. Most at risk are small independent pubs – particularly those on city outskirts, according to a report by the Office of National Statistics. Drinkers have moved pubs, rather than give up and large commercial chain…
Read MoreWhitco News
Hello We have launched our first news deck today, I promise it will get even better as time goes on and some humour will be added, in true Vite style! A combination of what we are doing, what we hear about and those random snippets that I often throw out via various social media platforms…
Read MoreBakery & Patisserie Customers
We are pleased to announce that we have added two new highly respected bakery consultants to our list of partners, their expertise will bolster the knowledge that we have built up over 24 years and will help us to the bridge the gap that Jeff left, we are currently working with them to review…
Read MoreThe University Caterers Association – TUCO
Whitco are pleased to announce that they have been successful in their Tender and are now a qualified supplier to TUCO. Tony Butler, Whitco’s MD commented that it was a very long process, but we were confident in our approach and we look forward to adding the Whitco value and customer service to this new…
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