Feeding Students on a Tight Budget

8th February 2010, 2:03pm

Leading chefs who create menus for University and College students and teachers will be demonstrating their specialist skills in the Cost Sector Live forum on Monday.

Members of The University Caterers Organisation (TUCO) will be taking to the Live theatre stage to demonstrate their skills to Hotelympia exhibition visitors.

Providing balanced diets across a variety of ethnic requirements and within a tight budget is the challenge for the majority of the country's further education caterers, and those attending the show will be able to see and hear how the experts manage it.

A feature of the University & Colleges demo day will be a demonstration by UK Skills students from Thames Valley University led by lecturer Yolande Stanley. She has promised the students will be working on "something on chocolate".

Craft Guild of Chefs members Alistair Birt, Will Torrant and Matt Shropshall, who all work in the tertiary education sector, have also promised to be on hand to give visitors to Cost Sector Cateriing Live a glimpse into the world of university catering.

TUCO was founded to assist members in their work and has a website (www.tuco.org) which provides a first class opportunity for those in the sector to develop new communications with other members, customers, suppliers and the industry generally.

National chairman Richard McGloin, head of trading service at Sheffield Hallam University feels that those attending the Live theatre will gain useful information about the organisation and how its members operate.

LIVE Theatre Sponsors

Heinz Foodservice, the sponsors of the Universities and Colleges Live session, will be showing caterers from some of our most esteemed educational institutions exactly why It Has To Be Heinz Foodservice.

As part of its overall sponsorship of the five day show highlight, the respected brand will be taking ownership of the University Caterers programme on Monday, March 1st.

Heinz Foodservice executives will be on hand to show caterers and operators how to make the most of its much-loved portfolio. They will be concentrating on 'food on the go'.

Visitors will also learn about the launch of Heinz' biggest combined retail and foodservice marketing campaign in five years. The £5m 'It has to be Heinz' campaign, continuing through 2010 and into 2011, will build on the deep connection the Heinz brand holds with consumers and the fact some things just 'have to be'.

In the spotlight will be Heinz' iconic hero products, including Heinz Tomato Ketchup, Cream of Tomato soup and Beanz, all linking back to their key platform.

For more on Heinz Foodservice, visit Cost Sector Live or stand S2459 at Hotelympia.