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.
11th June 2026
We’re proud to have been highly commended in the Waste Prevention & Management category at the 2026 Footprint Awards, recognising the progress we’ve made in reducing food waste across our workplace restaurants and kitchens.
We were the first UK contract caterer to introduce a self-designed food waste dashboard, giving teams a detailed picture of what was being wasted and where. Every rasher of bacon and every chip left behind gets weighed.
The data shows us where to focus. Our chefs take it from there. Leftover bacon has become tortillas. Surplus porridge has been repurposed into focaccia. Chips, once our biggest waste item, have been reworked into brioche buns for a fresh take on fish and chips.
And it's working. We've significantly reduced bacon waste and brought overall food waste down. We're continuing to find new ways to waste less.
10th June 2026
We're thrilled to announce that Eurest has been awarded the award for Sustainability Excellence (Large Operator) at the Craft Guild of Chefs Awards 2026.
At Eurest, we’ve transformed the way we tackle food waste by combining the insights from our award-winning food waste dashboard with the creativity of our chefs. Using data to identify our most wasted ingredients, we’ve developed innovative recipes such as bacon tortillas made from leftover bacon, brioche buns made from surplus chips, porridge focaccia and dishes using vegetable trimmings. This approach has helped us reduce bacon waste by 13%, keep food waste to just 3.62% of food purchased by value - well below the industry average - and cut greenhouse gas emissions per serving by 10.28%.
By putting flavour first and empowering our teams to find exciting uses for surplus ingredients, we’re building a culture where great food and waste reduction go hand in hand.
10th June 2026
We are proud to celebrate Darren Passmore, who has been named Chef of the Year at the Craft Guild of Chefs Awards. The award recognises his passionate belief in the power of food to change lives, support communities and deliver measurable outcomes in large-scale catering operations - making him a pillar of his industry.
As a chef with 35 years of experience, Darren has won many accolades, including Culinary Hero in 2023. Since then, he has taken his career to the next level – making a positive impact on Eurest, our clients, communities and the wider industry. He truly deserves this award.
6th May 2026
We’re proud to share that we’ve achieved a RoSPA Gold Achievement Award for the second consecutive year, marking our third year of recognition from RoSPA overall. Now celebrating its 70th year, the RoSPA Health and Safety Awards are recognised as one of the most respected programmes of their kind, setting the standard for excellence in workplace health and safety.
Leadership Safety Walks continue to play an important role in strengthening our safety culture. These walks provide an opportunity for our Eurest senior leaders to visit the shopfloor, interact with front-line colleagues and teams in the operational work environment, and reaffirm strong safety standards and behaviours. Across 2025 and 2026, we have seen a year-on-year increase in Safety Walks completed, demonstrating the continued growth of a positive leadership safety culture.
Securing Gold status for a second year reflects the continued dedication, care and commitment of our teams in maintaining the highest standards of health and safety every day.
3rd March 2026
Emma Best has been named Operations Director of the Year at the Contract Catering Awards 2026, a fantastic and well-deserved recognition of her leadership and impact.
Since joining Compass in 1990 and stepping into her Operations Director role five years ago, Emma now leads a portfolio of prestigious accounts with real energy and enthusiasm. She oversees around 450 colleagues, supporting hundreds of thousands of customers and consistently delivers outstanding results.
Known for blending strategic thinking with hands-on operational excellence, Emma has driven meaningful improvements in performance and customer satisfaction, while creating a positive, collaborative culture where her team can thrive.
10th October 2025
We are proud to celebrate Adam Greenway, who has been named General Manager of the Year at the Foodservice Cateys 2025. The award recognises exceptional leadership and operational excellence across the contract catering sector, and Adam’s achievement reflects the impact he has made at ExxonMobil’s Fawley refinery.
Adam leads catering operations across ExxonMobil’s largest refinery, a site spanning more than five square miles and supporting nearly 5,000 employees, plus up to 2,000 contractors during peak maintenance periods. Since stepping into the role in 2022, he has driven a significant transformation of the foodservice offer.
14th May 2025
We’re thrilled to announce that Eurest has been awarded a RoSPA (Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents) Gold Achievement Award for health and safety performance! This prestigious recognition reflects our ongoing commitment to creating safer, healthier, and more resilient workplaces.
For over 69 years, the RoSPA Health and Safety Awards, sponsored by NEBOSH, have set the industry benchmark for excellence. With nearly 2,000 entries annually from over 50 countries, they highlight organisations that go above and beyond in safeguarding their people.
This RoSPA Gold Achievement Award demonstrates the leadership commitment to safety and well-being across Business and Industry, and our HSE commitment to developing a programme that continues to keep our colleagues, customers and clients safe. Congratulations to everyone involved in this incredible achievement, and thank you for helping us lead the way in safety excellence.
24th March 2025
Congratulations to our CEO Morag Freathy, who was named Business Leader of the Year at the edie Awards 2025! These industry-leading awards are organised by the UK’s largest and longest-running sustainable business media brand and honour the people, projects, and partnerships transforming business through bold sustainability initiatives.
Morag’s win reflects her commitment to making sustainability a core part of everything we do here at Eurest. Under her inspirational leadership, we’ve made great strides in reducing food waste, cutting carbon emissions, and expanding the plant-based options on our menus, helping our clients and customers make planet-friendly choices.
14th March 2025
We’re very proud to announce that Madeline ‘Maddie’ Dowdy has won the coveted Rising Star Award at the 2025 Contract Catering Awards! Aged just 27, Maddie has made a significant impact at the Porsche Experience Centre and across Compass Group UK & Ireland during her two years with us.
Blending enthusiasm, creative flair and a commitment to more sustainable practices, Maddie’s homemade recipes recently landed her a place on the prestigious Marcus Wareing Forward programme. This landmark initiative runs alongside a Level 4 Senior Culinary Chef or Level 5 Operations Departmental Manager apprenticeship standard and allows candidates to explore every aspect of the kitchen, from sustainability to mental health.
By the age of 16, Maddie was already a culinary whizz, whipping up innovative plant-based desserts and working to reduce food waste - values that still drive her work today. Maddie's seasonal, mouth-watering recipes can be found on our menus under 'Maddie's Bakes' before they’re home-baked at each Eurest site by our expert team.
24th February 2025
We’re delighted to announce that Eurest received the RoSPA (Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents) Silver Award for health and safety performance for the period of January 1, 2023, to December 31, 2023 - awarded in 2024!
For over 69 years, the RoSPA Health and Safety Awards, sponsored by NEBOSH, have set the industry benchmark for excellence. With almost 2,000 entries annually from over 50 countries, impacting over seven million employees, these internationally recognised awards celebrate outstanding achievements and dedication to workplace safety across the globe.
We’re honoured to be recognised for our commitment to shaping healthier, happier workplaces. Eurest is currently awaiting the results of the Compass B&I 2025 RoSPA achievement award submission, so stay tuned!
28th November 2024
We’re thrilled to have been Highly Commended for our waste management efforts at the 2024 waste2zero awards, which recognise excellence in Waste Management and Prevention in the out-of-home food and drink sector.
Eurest was Highly Commended in two categories: the Best Food Waste Prevention Project Award and the Best Resource Management Business of the Year. These awards recognise our commitment to reducing 50% of our food waste by 2030, using initiatives like The Source menu management software, which allows us to maintain 95% waste reporting across all our workplace restaurants.
We’re also actively tackling food waste through our workplace food services, including a commitment to root-to-tip cooking and partnering with external organisations like Olio to help redistribute food that would typically be thrown away.
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.
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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”.
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