East Anglian contract catering firm Edwards & Blake celebrated the opening of their refurbished client restaurant at Bakkavor’s chilled pizza manufacturing facility in Holbeach St Marks, Lincolnshire last week.
The restaurant was officially opened by Bakkavor’s Group HR Director Pippa Greenslade from Bakkavor Head Office in Paddington, London.
The cutting-edge design of the new staff restaurant facility was created collaboratively by the staff and management at Bakkavor Pizza and Edwards & Blake. It includes a refitted kitchen, a new servery, additional counters and a refurbished seating area for staff.
The restaurant serves breakfast, lunch, afternoon meals and evening meals from 7.30am until 1.30am for the 900 manufacturing and office staff at the Holbeach site.
Caroline Blake, Director of Edwards & Blake comments: “We’re delighted to be working with Bakkavor Pizza at Holbeach to provide their catering for another five years and to be able to continue offering employees a broad selection of delicious and nutritious food through the day.
“As fresh food suppliers themselves, Bakkavor appreciate our approach to delivering the highest of standards and exceptional food. We pride ourselves on providing fantastic value for money and food that is locally sourced and freshly cooked every day. It’s all topped off with excellent customer service and happy staff.”
Caroline continues: “We worked closely with Bakkavor Pizza to design the restaurant and to offer a cost-effective and dynamic service for the next five years. No one-size fits all; our mission is to provide a flexible and tailored approach with clients both for their facilities and their catering requirements. We have a passion for food and will always stay true to our core values.”
Pippa Greenslade, HR Director of Bakkavor comments: “Employee well-being is important to us at Bakkavor. By collaborating closely with Edwards & Blake we have been able to deliver a fantastic refurbishment to our employee canteen at Holbeach, provide a menu at subsidised rates which offers good quality, freshly made food, and now cater for both day and night shifts”.
For more information on Edwards & Blake visit www.edwardsandblake.co.uk or call 01760 720 201.