Defence Chefs on Show

8th February 2010, 2:02pm

Military chefs from the Army, Navy, RAF and Territorial Army will be showing visitors to Cost Sector Catering Live the best of what they can do on the first day of this special demo feature of Hotelympia organised by Cost Sector Catering magazine.

The countdown is continuing to the start of Hotelympia, the UK's leading foodservice exhibition. Held every two years at the ExCeL centre in London's Docklands, the exhibition has established itself as the must-attend event for restaurateurs, hoteliers and contract caterers.

This year Cost Sector Catering has got together with the exhibition organisers to create a series of events to appeal to Public Sector Caterers – 'CSC live' will run for all five days of the show covering the key areas of Public Sector Catering.

CSC Live presents the cost sector with a chance to demonstrate to the wider hospitality industry that the skills and abilities within the less 'high profile' areas of the industry are equal to if not surpassing those of many areas of the 'profit' sector.

Many people who work within the cost sector are working with restrictions that the profit sector would find incredibly difficult to deliver to and CSC Live gives everyone a chance to understand and learn.

It also gives a daily focus to encourage cost sector employees to attend Hotelympia and to experience and participate in the wider hospitality industry, a chance to learn and even examine and perhaps challenge career choices and options.

The first days kicks off with demos by military chefs.

Anyone who has attended the Combined Services Culinary Challenge will have no doubts that the skills incumbent in our Armed Forces catering corps are unsurpassed across the industry.

But to prove it to the whole industry a team from across the forces will conduct a series of demonstrations during the day covering fine dining through to ration packs.

Definitely pencilled in to show the best of what the military can do is Bob Oberhofer of the Territorial Army and Lee Corke of the Royal Air Force.

Corke was a sergeant back in 2006 when he won the Cost Sector Catering Armed Services Award.

* At the time of going to press both the Navy and the Army had committed to sending a chef representative but for operational reasons did not have names available.