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Coya – Taste explosions and corn, lots of corn


Marathon over, literally, and I was booked to visit Coya on Piccadilly  with Tom an old friend I have had the pleasure of knowing for more years than I can remember, but it is at least 20. Coya, a phrase used … Continue reading

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The Price Is Right


First published in the FSM Magazine in May 2013. Do you remember it? I thought you might. The Price Is Right was a television franchise around the world. In the show, contestants competed to win cash and prizes by guessing the … Continue reading

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Gather and Gather – Food and FM in Perfect Harmony?


Several weeks back I received an invitation to attend the launch of a new brand “Gather & Gather” and I was taken by the professionalism and quality of branding on the communication. I hadn’t heard of them, so I looked … Continue reading

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Anthony’s – Fine Dining at the Corn Exchange


A review by Paulina Herrmann, Support Consultant, Coverpoint Foodservice Consultants. It was that time again for another Coverpoint ‘road trip’ and so my colleague Daniel da Rocha, Management Consultant at Coverpoint, and I, boarded a train to the ‘North’. Having … Continue reading

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Magnificent TrinityLeeds


An article by Daniel da Rocha, Management Consultant, Coverpoint Foodservice Consultants. TrinityLeeds was one of the first major shopping centre development projects I worked on as a ‘Support Consultant’ after joining Coverpoint in 2009. Although I have worked on a … Continue reading

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M on the Bund, Shanghai


As I left Shanghai on Friday morning, I was reminded of the moody and dark scenes that pervade the film Blade Runner. Set in a future world, the Ridley Scott directed epic is set in a noisy, vertical world, with … Continue reading

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Blue Boar Smokehouse & Bar


A review by Daniel da Rocha, Management Consultant, Coverpoint Foodservice Consultants For those unwilling (or simply unable) to cook on a Sunday there has always been a rather more, or less, appealing choice around. Whether you head down to your … Continue reading

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The “High Street Halo”


First Published in the FSM Magazine in April 2013. Regular readers of FSM will know that I am a keen observer of the “blending” between the different sectors in the foodservice industry. I woke up yesterday morning to the news … Continue reading

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Terre a Terre – “Down to Earth” Vegetarian Cuisine


A review by Paulina Herrmann, Support Consultant, Coverpoint Foodservice Consultants. As I was planning my debut on the Coverpoint blog page I was thinking about a good choice for my first entry. Over recent weeks the news have been dominated … Continue reading

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Breaking the “Chains” to Cheap Food


First Published in the FSM Magazine in March 2013. There is no such thing as a free lunch. Since Christmas the consumers in the UK are beginning to get a taste, literally, of what that means. Price, again, has impacted … Continue reading

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