All Wimpy articles – Page 4

  • News

    FSA calorie menu report delayed

    2010-06-08T13:09:00Z

    The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has abandoned a stars-based format for its “Scores on the Doors” national hygiene scheme to avoid confusion and a consultation into displaying calorie information on menus has also been delayed.Newly published research from the FSA found the use of stars to illustrate a premise’s hygiene ...

  • News

    Calorie labelling may start in spring 2010

    2009-12-03T11:49:00Z

    Restaurants and pubs may be required to list calories on their menus from spring next year, following the publication of new research by the Food Standards Agency (FSA) today.The FSA said that following positive results from 21 companies involved in calorie labelling trials it would launch a consultation that will ...

  • News

    Sector launches calorie-menu trials

    2009-06-18T17:58:00Z

    A clutch of companies from the eating and drinking out market have begun trials disclosing the number of calories contained in menu items.The initiative, co-ordinated by the Food Standards Agency (FSA), will see a range of companies include Mitchells & Butlers (M&B), Marks & Spencer, Pret A Manger and Subway ...

  • News

    Five operators sign up to FSA healthy eating initiative

    2009-05-13T08:30:00Z

    Five more high street restaurant and takeaway chains yesterday signed up to the Food Standard Agency’s healthy eating commitment.PizzaExpress, Pizza Hut, The Restaurant Group, the operator of Frankie & Benny’s, Chiquito and Garfunkel’s, and Café Rouge operator Tragus along with Domino’s Pizza pledged to help customers enjoy a healthier, balanced ...

  • News

    Six pub groups make FSA pledge

    2009-02-05T16:29:00Z

    Six of Britain’s leading pub restaurant chains, which together serve more than one million meals a day, have agreed to reduce salt and saturated fats.JD Wetherspoon, Greene King, Marston’s Inns & Taverns, Mitchells & Butlers, the Spirit Group and Whitbread have all committed to work with the Food Standards Agency ...

  • Opinion

    Healthy eating remains on the political agenda

    2008-11-24T07:12:00Z

    Inside Track by Peter Martin

  • News

    Famous Brands acquires Wimpy UK

    2007-02-27T10:26:00Z

  • News

    Roadchef wins tollroad services contract

    2003-02-04T00:00:00Z

    Roadchef, the motorway services operator owned by the Japanese finance company Nikko Principal Investments, has won the contract to operate a new service area on the M6 Toll Road.Newspaper reports this morning say Roadchef has beaten Compass’s Moto chain and Welcome Break for the 25-year contract to run the only ...

  • News

    Wimpy bar pioneer dies

    2001-06-22T00:00:00Z