01 Mar |
Food and Drink in Trouble |
Pre-Covid when AC Services Southern published a weekly blog, we ran a series on the food and drink in trouble in the world due to climate change and disease. We were reminded of these, last month,…
Tags: Catering business, Food producers31 Jan |
Seven Food Trends for 2024 |
January is the time for predictions. So what does AC Services think might be the top seven food trends to be aware of in 2024 for its catering colleagues?
2023 was all about the cost…
Tags: AC Services02 Jan |
Ready for More in 2024 |
Each year AC Services starts its regular monthly blog with a calendar for the year ahead. We looked back to the one we had last year. That talked of the broken dreams in 2022 and hopes to shake…
Tags: Catering business30 Nov |
Christmas Opening Hours 2023 |
If we’re posting our monthly blog for November, it’s fewer than 30 days to Christmas. Almost time to start opening those advent calendars and to deck the premises with boughs of holly! As the busiest time of…
Tags: AC Services, Rational Ovens31 Oct |
Trick or Treat for Halloween |
Trick or treat is an appropriate question for us to ask when we’re posting so close to Halloween. Certainly, the last year has been full of tricks for UK catering businesses with only the occasional treat….
Tags: AC Services, Cleaning Products, Rational Ovens28 Sep |
Rational Service and Maintenance |
English is a difficult language to learn. Why? Because we repeatedly use the same word said in the same way to mean completely different things. Take the word ‘service’ for example. Or rather don’t;…
Tags: Cleaning, Maintenance, Servicing30 Aug |
Getting Catering Business Ready for the New ‘Old Normal’ |
The news for catering business is not great. Even the county daily e-newsletter is regularly reporting restaurant closures of established and new venues. Locally a celebrity chef forged ahead with the building changes for a new pub-restaurant; only…
Tags: Catering business, Hotel, mass catering, Pubs, Restaurant26 Jul |
Measuring Customer Service |
Following our last blog on customer service being the core of our business at AC Services; we’ve quite rightly been asked how we measure success. Sometimes this is put more crudely as “prove it”!…
Tags: AC Services, Rational Ovens, Servicing28 Jun |
Our Essence is Customer Service |
Last month we suggested that one way for catering businesses to weather the current economic storm is to focus on the core or essence of their business. With the Bank of England increasing the interest rates…
Tags: AC Services, Catering business, Rational Ovens30 May |
Sensible Catering Forecast |
The third and final May Bank Holiday has passed. No more now until the end of August. Hopefully all catering businesses have seen a boost in trade and are well into preparation for the early summer months.
For many these…
Tags: Catering business