MAGAZINE

Just as we are going to print, a rather pleasing, not to mention large, piece of industry news has just broken. However, thanks to the nimble work of our design team, you can read about it in News (page 7).

Things may be (understandably) slow at the moment, but following WSH’s buy up of Bartlett Mitchell last month, Sodexo has taken a significant slice of Fooditude. I recall in the roundtable we hosted in 2018, the former following the latter discussing its uber-innovative method of suppling clients who don’t have kitchens from a central production unit, by revealing that it had “begun using a similar model in France, and that it is looking at whether it would be usable in the UK”. Well, it has certainly made good on that front; and Sodexo’s move, supplying stability for a younger, smaller innovator like Fooditude, while also showing a positive path forward for the industry, can only be a good thing right now.

I am pleased to say that we have already secured an interview with Fooditude founder Dean Kennett to tell us how it will work in greater detail in our next issue. By then it will, of course, be 2021 – so it only leaves me to wish you a merry, and hopefully relaxing, Christmas and a happy new year on behalf of everyone here at H2O Publishing.