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Hospitality food waste bill could reach £3bn by 2016, warns WRAP

21-Nov-2013 By Emma Eversham

The hospitality industry's food waste bill could reach as much as £3bn by 2016 if businesses fail to take action, a new report by the Waste Resources Action Programme (WRAP) has found.

Food waste collaboration could cut business costs by 30% says report

05-Nov-2013 By Emma Eversham

The costs involved in dealing with food waste could be cut by as much as 30 per cent if hospitality companies collaborated on waste collection, says the author of a report into food waste management.

Diners ask restaurants to offer different portion sizes to help cut food waste

04-Jun-2013 By Emma Eversham

Diners would like to see a wider range of portion sizes offered to them in restaurants, hotels and pubs as research revealed by WRAP shows that more than a quarter regularly leave food on their plates at the end of a meal.

M&B takes hit from weakened consumer spending

21-Jul-2011 By Emma Eversham

Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) says it is feeling the effects of weakened consumer spending as like-for-like sales for the first 42 weeks of the year rise just 3 per cent.