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The company revealed that it had signed a contract with a major global brand with fast food sandwich chain SUBWAY.

The food and beverage brand operator won a five-year contract valued at approximately £41 million to operate nine bakery and snack outlets at Frankfurt Airport. The new units, which are located both landside and airside in the airport’s Terminal 1, will open between 2016 and 2018.

For Earth Week, the brand is aiming to encourage its customers to "Eat More Plants", and pledged to donate part of its proceeds from plant-based food to charity.

The online food ordering platform in the UK announced that it has fully integrated with the UK’s leading cashback site Quidco, enabled by mobile commerce startup Button Technology.

The latest experimental flavour to be unveiled from the Muffin Lab is a combination of peanut butter, caramel and banana. The invention is filled with fresh banana pieces and peanut butter. It is then finished with a banana, peanut and caramel brittle. Customers will be able to purchase the product, which retails at £2.30, from Muffin Break UK stores until 10th May.

The brand stated that its Bakery Outlet format, which sells products unsold the day before at a discounted price, will not be a priority in its business model. Instead, Greggs said that they are looking to focus on increasing the amount of unsold food donated to charity.

Starbucks launched its Partner Cup Design Contest for partners (employees) in the U.S. and Canada, which concluded with three winning designs printed on reusable cups in North America stores in 2015.

Starbucks hosted its 10th Annual Supplier Summit in Shenzhen, China, which featured Starbucks leaders, non-profits and other industry experts.

Following the successful launch of a new pilot concept in Vienna in 2015, Café Nespresso will also be piloted in London in 2016. Nespresso expects to have the café open by summer 2016 and the location has been confirmed in Cheapside, in the City of London.

British Land, joint owner of Meadowhall, announced the opening of Tapas Revolution in the Yorkshire premier shopping destination.

John Vincent and LEON co-founder Henry Dimbleby established Cook5 in 2013 with the aim of getting more children aged 5-15 to learn how to cook at least five savoury dishes before they leave school. In 2012 they had been asked to conduct a review of school food by the then Secretary of State for Education, Michael Gove. While researching food technology lessons the pair found the majority of lessons were about baking biscuits or muffins, rather than proper dinners. They also discovered research showing fewer than half of families eat together every day and that 60 per cent of 18 to 25 year olds leave home without being able to cook five simple things. As part of John and Henry’s work on the School Food Plan they got cooking back on to the National Curriculum for children up to 14 years old. To get more children back into the kitchen at home they founded the Cook5 competition, which encourages children to upload and share their dishes. They can win cash as well badges and prizes for showing off their culinary skills. Previous Cook5 champion Charlotte Foster said: “I love cooking. It’s really relaxing and I get to be creative. I cook with my mum, or sometimes with my brother Christopher. I’d really recommend Cook5 to anyone. It’s great fun.” Charlotte’s mum Sue Foster said: ““We have had so much fun with Cook5. The kids have always been keen preservers and bakers but hadn’t done much “main meal” cooking with them until Cook5. It has encouraged them to make healthy meals that taste and look good. They’ve cooked 20 new dishes in the last year.” “I think anything that encourages kids to get cooking both at school and at home is a good thing. I would encourage all parents to have a go. I have had no training in food but everything we’ve learned about cooking we have learned together.” LEON co-founder John Vincent said: “Cook5 is all about positivity; we’ve kept our recipes simple so children, and their parents, who don’t usually cook feel they can have a go. Cooking is like alchemy; you can spin gold from really basic materials. We want to get more and more children back into the kitchen and experience that magic for themselves.” Children can take part by visiting www.leonrestaurants/cook5 and start uploading pictures of the savoury dishes they have produced. Every participant who reaches the target of cooking five dishes will receive a Cook5 certificate and a Little Leon e-book. Every month, the person whose recipe receives the most ‘votes’ from friends and family will win £50. And everyone who cooks five dishes will be entered into a Grand Annual Prize Draw for £500. An additional prize of £2000 will be awarded to the school that gets the most students cooking five dishes, to invest in teaching cookery. 

The coffee shop brand pledged its support for Project Waterfall during UK Coffee Week by donating 20p from every purchase of Old Paradise Street Limited Roast No.11 to the charity.

This May, Carluccio’s will open its first Italian restaurant and food shop in a McArthur Glen designer outlet – Cheshire Oaks in Cheshire.

The doughnut chain unveiled its latest creations, available on Monday 18th April in all stores nationwide.

Figures released by global information company The NPD Group for the out-of-home (OOH) British foodservice market show that Britain’s love affair for coffee is strengthening at the expense of tea.

Subway is joining the line-up of exhibitors at the National Convenience Show (NCS), held at Birmingham’s NEC from 18-20 April 2016.