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Welcome to the Talking food with Bidfood podcast series!

Are you working in foodservice and looking for creative menu solutions or ideas on how to capture all of your customer needs? Well, this is the podcast for you!

In our episodes, we discuss the latest hot topics with key voices from Bidfood, our customers, industry experts and our insight partners. We do this with the aim of connecting all aspects of the industry with insightful and interesting conversation.
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Join host Ashley Hollidge and co-host Valeria Potsinok to discuss the exciting and developing world of regenerative agriculture in 2024. We are joined by special guests Kate Edley, Brand and Category Lead Savoury Food, Nestlé Professional and Katrina Harrison Brand and Activation Lead, Nestlé Professional, who breakdown the complex world of regenerative farming and dive deep into it’s importance to the future of foodservice. Whether you’re new to the topic of Regenerative Farming, are an expert or just curious about this topic we hope you will find this an interesting discussion. Click here to read Bidfood’s 2023 sustainability report: Bidfood...
Join host Ashley Hollidge discussing the top food and drinks trends for 2024, with attendees at our Taste of Bidfood: Access All Areas event. This event was all about customers, and suppliers joining together to celebrate food and innovation, strengthen their knowledge in workshops, and getting the full access all areas experience at our depot tours. Our special guests for the episode are from Elior, Heinz, The Alchemist, the Bidfood digital team and our CEO for Bidcorp UK, Andrew Selley. They give their hot takes and predictions for food and drink in 2024, their highlights of the event and share...
Join our host Cally Ip with guest speaker Rob Smith, Senior Head Chef at University of Bristol to hear how he is implementing healthier and more sustainable menus in his university. We’re also joined by our Head of Sustainability, Julie Owst, and our Nutrition Manager, Heather Dolan, who join us who dive into the importance of changing the future of university menus, today, and how easy it can be to do. For this episode, we discuss healthy and sustainable menu principles such as eating less red meats, sugar alternatives, and more, as well as how universities can easily bring these...
Join guest host Emily Butler, with Amanda Whatley and Heather Dolan to discuss all things vegetable intake and nutritious school meals. We talk about ways to break down barriers of healthy eating in schools, why balanced meals are so important to children’s development and learning, as well as how school caterers can continue to make a real difference. Our guest for this episode is Amanda Whatley, Business Development Manager at HC3S, who joins us to discuss simple, yet impactful ways schools can encourage students to care about healthy eating and what methods she finds helps students increase their intake of...
Join guest host Emily Butler, with Gavin Squires and Wayne Wright to discuss all things innovation in schools, a LACA the Main Event round-up, and hear about the inspiration behind our stand. With it being such a pressing issue for the education sector, we also took the time to discuss what the industry and government need to action for supporting and increasing Universal Infant Free School Meals. We feel strongly that not enough is being done currently. We also discuss our favourite moments from LACA the Main Event, such as awarding Brad Pearce, LACA chair, our fundraising total for his...
Join Joe Angliss and Julie Owst, Head of Sustainability for Bidfood, and their special guests Paul Williams, Global Head of Environmental and Social Sustainability and Simon Stokes, Senior Development Chef for Princes, as they shed light on the crucial role of sustainable practices and the growing trend for carbon-friendly menus. We discuss best practices to help brands to reach their targets and how foodservice businesses can make changes to create a greener, more sustainable food industry. This is a must listen for anyone dedicated to understanding how to create more carbon-friendly and sustainable menus. Bidfood’s vision is to be the...
The coronation brings the perfect opportunity for care homes across the world to bring residents together to celebrate and welcome a brand new era. To help support care homes, we wanted to explore the event further and offer our quick top tips on how to bring it alive…  We are joined by our award-winning culinary development Chef Wayne Wright to discuss to upcoming coronation and what this means for care homes. We touch on the importance of celebrations in homes and the significance of this on resident engagement and wellbeing. This episode also delves into the importance of catering for...
Staying ahead of the curve with the latest consumer trends is more important than ever, as eating and drinking out...
We’re back with another 2023 Food and Drink Trends episode! This time, we speak to Head of Unity and expert of all things alcohol… Matt Towe. During the episode we explore our alcoholic drinks trend for 2023, “In the Spirit”.  With over 20 years of experience working in the alcohol industry, Matt truly is a fountain of knowledge, so it was fascinating to get his views on the latest alcoholic drinks trends, and what will make them such a hit with consumers this year. Importantly for operators, we also discuss ways in which these trending drinks can be offered in...
Following on from our previous episode, we talk to Anne Simonnet, Head of Sustainability & Compliance at Foodbuy. Anne has...
The scale of the environmental threat facing us all as individuals and businesses can sometimes seem daunting, and has certainly...
Staying ahead of the curve with key consumer trends has never been as important as it is in today’s challenging...
We’ve all been grappling with inflation and the cost of living crisis. As a result, the hospitality sector has come...
The Plastic Packaging Tax (PPT) came into effect on the 1st of April 2022 to provide a clear economic incentive...
We understand how the cost of living and food inflation has affected the industry over the past six months. While...
Becoming more sustainable and reducing our emissions is such a pressing issue for all business, particularly those involved in the...
When implemented on 6th April 2022, the new calorie labelling legislation will mean that it will become mandatory in England to share...
For this episode, we’re breaking down the greatest challenges that school caterers are facing to feed children quality and nutritious...
As the health trend looks set to continue to rise in 2022, we surveyed consumers and scoured the market to...
Interested in discovering what plant-based alternatives to include on your menu? Learn more about what you can do for Veganuary and what our new V Kitchen range has to offer by listening to this episode! To discuss this topic, we are joined by Zoe West, Senior Corporate Engagement Specialist at Veganuary and Martin Eshelby, Food Innovation Manager for Bidfood. We discuss ingredients, plant-based alternatives, flavours and textures that can help you to create an exciting and creative vegan offer for your customers this year. Learn more about Veganuary and the support they can provide you: https://veganuary.com/try-vegan/?d=bidfood Learn more about our V Kitchen range here: https://www.bidfood.co.uk/v-kitchen/ Sign up to our Veganuary webinar for recipe ideas here: https://www.bidfood.co.uk/events/ Find all our other recipe advice here: https://www.bidfood.co.uk/v-kitchen-recipes/
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