Seeing the smiling faces of the people we serve every day is the ultimate prize, but it’s always nice to be recognised! From our chefs to our customer service experts, every award we’re nominated for is a celebration and reflection of our amazing team.
That’s why we’re so proud to have won – and continue to win – awards and nominations in every corner of our brilliant business, including operations, culinary, health and wellbeing, sustainability and leadership. From our chefs to our customer service experts, every award we’re nominated for is a celebration of our people.
20th September 2024
We are delighted to be winners of the Diet and Health Award at the FDF Awards 2024!
The FDF Awards annually celebrates the diversity, dynamism and dedication of those who work in the food and drink industry. We’re proud to be an innovative, planet-first business who strive to use sustainable, ethically sourced produce to cater for workplaces across the UK.
Our commitment to providing healthy, sustainable food has seen our award-winning chefs and nutritionists replace 40% of the meat in our top 12 dishes with nutritious pulses and vegetables, with either no change, or an improvement in taste. This change produces significantly less carbon emissions but prove to be just as popular. This shift resulted in a whopping 1.9m reduction in calories, a 215,932g reduction in fat and an 88,198g increase in fibre. Additionally, we’ve seen an average saving in carbon emissions of 1.39 kg CO2e per portion and are ever closer to our ambitious goal of making 50% of our menus plant-based by 2025.
14th August 2024
Congratulations to Morag Freathy who was listed in Management Today’s Women in Leadership Power List 2024. This list champions trailblazing, accomplished, and inspiring women who are outstanding in their respective fields.
Having previously featured some of the biggest names in British business, this prestigious list recognises individuals for their impact on their organisation through innovation, revenue growth, or enhanced diversity. As the driving force behind our health, wellbeing and sustainability goals, Morag sits amongst the best of the best.
13th June 2024
We’ve won the Sustainable Health in Hospitality Award at the Footprint Awards 2024! The team have been recognised for implementing a reformulation strategy that reduces the carbon emissions of our most popular dishes - without compromising on their nutritional value.
By substituting 40% of the meat content in our 12 top-selling meals with plant-based alternatives, we’ve increased the fibre and protein in each portion. This change has also resulted in an average saving of 1.39kg CO2e per portion across 209,029 meals sold every year.
The judges' comments included:
“Great entry. Clear objectives and impressive results. Love the targeting of best sellers and the impact without requiring the customer to do anything different. Great impact on health, cost and planet. Impressive”.
8th November 2023
We’ve won the Best Waste Prevention Project Award at the waste2zero Awards 2023!
We secured this award for our ambitious food waste campaign, saving 39 tonnes of food and equating to 86,950 meals. Helping us achieve this result was a new waste dashboard called ‘The Source’, which we integrated into our menu management software. The Source collected useable data across 700 locations and played a starring role in allowing us to pinpoint and prevent waste at every level.
"What is particularly impressive is that the team at Eurest clearly had to work with a large team to win hearts and minds and ensure that this project was implemented successfully and effectively. It is also great to see this being rolled out across other businesses in the group and the impact it has made".
19th October 2023
Winning a Foodservice Catey symbolises excellence in the foodservice industry and is awarded in recognition of those at the top of their game. That’s why we’re incredibly proud to have not only picked up the CSER award for the third year running but to announce that we’ve won Front of House Team of the Year at the Porsche Experience Centre at Silverstone!
It was a particularly special night for two members of the Eurest team, Gemma Evans-Hurley, who won Chef of the Year and Mark Price, who works on our Brakes contract, taking home Chef Manager of the Year.
26th September 2023
We are delighted to be winners of the Environmental Leadership Award at the FDF Awards 2023!
The FDF Awards is an annual awards ceremony celebrating the diversity, dynamism and dedication of those who work in the food and drink industry. Here at Eurest, we’re always striving to innovate and improve our impact on the planet, driving the future of food for workforces up and down the UK. Thanks to our initiatives which include the decarbonisation of recipes, eco-labelled menus and embedding of consumer ‘nudging’, and the dedication from our chefs, service teams, operators, SMEs and leadership team, we are proud that our planet-positive efforts have been highlighted in the wider industry.
22nd September 2023
Thanks to a winning collaboration with Heathrow Airport, Eurest proudly accepts the Health & Wellbeing Initiative of the Year Award at the Airport FAB Awards!
In December 2022, Heathrow Airport put an initiative in place to support their employees over the winter through the cost of living crisis. Within a tight four-week timeframe, Eurest joined forces with Heathrow to ensure over 6,000 eligible Heathrow colleagues had daily access to free meals and hot drinks, achieving an impressive 93% participation rate. The impact? An incredible 686,000 nourishing meals served during winter, including 6,000 special Christmas lunches.
The FAB Awards is the most prestigious awards programme in the industry, attracting entries from airports, concessionaires and brands around the world. Winning a FAB Award is a mark of excellence that demonstrates a commitment to delivering exceptional customer and employee experiences.
5th July 2023
Eurest’s Managing Director Morag Freathy has deservedly won the Foodservice Caterer Award at the 2023 Cateys Awards!
In 2017, Morag stepped in and fearlessly took charge of defining our vision for a new, health-conscious and sustainable approach to workplace food services. Since then, we’ve introduced plant-based menus, reduced the equivalent of 36.5 tonnes of food waste in the last year, and formed ambitious net zero goals – propelling both our sustainability efforts and those of our valued clients forwards.
Despite intense challenges over the last few years, Morag's innovative approach has allowed our workplace food services to continue to thrive - with our clients appreciating her unwavering determination to keep sustainability and social responsibility at the core of their workplace food offering.
9th June 2023
Eurest have been crowned winner of Sustainability in Labelling at the 2023 Footprint Awards!
Determined to nudge our consumers towards sustainable and nourishing food choices, we were the first workplace caterer to introduce eco-labelling in the UK.
We achieved this through a partnership with the University of Oxford, analysing 10,000 recipes to assess their environmental impact and assigning ratings from A (the most eco-friendly) to E (the most detrimental).
The Footprint Awards is the established market-leading awards scheme for environmental sustainability and responsible business practice. The scheme is known worldwide for its connections to innovative and environmentally progressive organisations.
12th December 2022
We’re incredibly proud that our Culinary Lead of Projects, Gemma Evans-Hurley made the Women to Watch & Role Models for Inclusion in Hospitality, Travel and Leisure (HTL) Index 2022.
The index celebrates female talent across the hospitality, travel and leisure industries, as well as individuals who are role modelling inclusion in its broadest sense. We knew it was only a matter of time before Gemma’s efforts to push for progression across our various sectors would gain external recognition.
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