The week in pictures


1-2 Steve Coates, founder and chairman of the Advance Group, was this year’s winner of the Foodservice Equipment Association (FEA)/The Caterer Outstanding Achievement Award. The award, now in its 28th year, recognises those who have had a significant positive impact on the industry during their career. Coates picked up the accolade at a dinner to conclude the FEA Industry Conference 2023, which took place at the Chesford Grange hotel in Warwickshire. Victoria Miller, reporter at The Caterer, presented Coates with the Award.


3 Eight of London’s top chefs joined forces to host a one-off gala dinner, raising £85,000 for industry charity Hospitality Action. The Winter Chefs’ Dinner was held on 6 November at Nobu Hotel London Portman Square. Chefs including Tom Booton, Adam Handling and Claire Clark joined the charity’s chef patrons, Jason Atherton, Vivek Singh and Atul Kochhar, to cook up a four-course feast for 400 guests alongside a prize draw and live auction to raise funds.


4 Rick Stein Restaurants has raised £11,000 for marine conservation and education charity the National Lobster Hatchery. Over the summer, the restaurant group ran a Summer of Shellfish campaign at its restaurants, including at its Sandbanks, Winchester and Rick Stein’s Café in Cornwall, where £1 from every dish was donated to the Padstow-based charity. Jack Stein, chef director of Rick


Stein Restaurants, said: “I’m very proud of the success of our Summer of Shellfish celebration, especially raising £11,000 for the National Lobster Hatchery in Padstow. “Supporting local causes has


always been important to our business and I want to thank everyone that enjoyed our lobster and chips special over the summer.”


5 Gordon Campbell Gray, founder of the Wee Hotel Company, received the Vision and Endeavour accolade at the Hotels of the Year Scotland Awards. Now in its twentieth year, the


awards honour the success and achievements across Scotland’s hotel industry and are judged by an independent panel of travel writers, industry experts and peers.


14 | The Caterer | 24 November 2023


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