People

The fine food industry is full of inspiring professionals with a wealth of experience and expertise under their sleeves – find out what makes them tick and discover their take on the ever-changing market right here

  • “Train staff and they leave; but even worse – don’t train them and they stay “

    24 August 2015 Town Crier
    My wife is a physiotherapist (good call, eh?) and is obliged to demonstrate ‘continuing professional development’ in order to renew her accreditation

  • “Horizon scanning”

    24 August 2015 Opinion
    Life would be so much easier if we knew exactly where the shopper, the market and the trends in food were headed

  • “Cheese@BRA – a cheese-lover’s rite of passage”

    24 August 2015 Cheese Talk
    Big ones, small ones, some as big as your head and much, much bigger, and more cheese than most people will ever see in a lifetime

  • “Do local rules apply?”

    24 August 2015 Fine Food
    Year on year, our ongoing obsession with “local” foods is tested to the limit. The idea that responsible foodies should shop locally, and in tune with the seasons, is a good one, but rules are there to be broken

  • “Partridges’ top 5”

    24 August 2015 Expert Eye
    Last month I wrote about the effect of the weather on sales, and so far it seems like this summer is maintaining the recent mini trend of relatively benign weather

  • Summertime Musings

    17 August 2015 Speciality Bites
    By the time you read this, I will hopefully be enjoying some Italian sunshine and food, washed down with a large glass of cool Pinot Grigio!

  • The Living Wage

    04 August 2015 Speciality Bites
    Every time I have picked up a trade magazine since the budget a few weeks’ ago, I have had to read articles written by business leaders moaning about the new government’s plans to introduce the “Living Wage” rather than the current “Minimum Wage” by 2020

  • Funny - people, aren’t they?

    21 July 2015 Speciality Bites
    Maybe I am getting old, or maybe I am just becoming a “grumpy old man”, but the longer I live this life, the more peculiar people seem to become! Or perhaps I am a keener observer of people and can see through masks better than I…

  • “What’s in a name?”

    07 July 2015 Town Crier
    How do you describe your shoppers? Recently I participated in a marketing workshop where I was asked how I defined my customers, both actual and potential

  • “Cheshire days…”

    07 July 2015 Opinion
    Nantwich Cheese Awards has magical memories for many who have enjoyed its days in the past

  • “The science of combining food and wine”

    07 July 2015 Cheese Talk
    I was recently invited to be part of a panel to talk about the science behind matching cheese with wine – first the wine expert talked about the wine and a how each was made, then I talked about the cheeses and how they were made…

  • “Blame it on the weather”

    07 July 2015 Expert Eye
    For us at Partridges, the weather only started in 2004 when we moved to the Duke of York Square. Until that time, weather was something that happened to other people
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