Do&Co win massive catering deal (from 2020) for BA in LHR and IB & I2 in MAD
Sep 12, 2018, 5:05 am
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Sep 12, 2018, 8:15 am
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Perhaps Do&Co are rolling out a new brand. Do&Co LoCo? Especially for BA. Somehow I can't see CE catering competing with TK on similar length sectors.
Sep 12, 2018, 8:38 am
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Agreed on the catering, apologies for being too close to UK
Sep 12, 2018, 8:44 am
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Well, last time there was a threat to jobs at GateGourmet there was a massive strike, and we were in the land of chillers full of brown-bag meals and shortbread. Wonder how this will pan out?
Sep 12, 2018, 9:25 am
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Sep 12, 2018, 9:26 am
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Even if they don't get TUPEd Do&Co will need to recruit so GG workers could apply for jobs with Do&Co. And it's not like GG is closing down, It does service other airlines.
Sep 12, 2018, 9:32 am
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Even if they don't get TUPEd Do&Co will need to recruit so GG workers could apply for jobs with Do&Co. And it's not like GG is closing down, It does service other airlines.
I think we all hope that there won't be any kind of repeat.
Sep 12, 2018, 10:00 am
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Do&Co's LHR kitchen will be familiar to many here, it's over the road from the Hilton Garden Inn at Hatton Cross. Currently it provides the shorthaul catering and the JFK service. I'm guessing the addition of all of longhaul and Iberia will add so much extra workload that it will need to add to the company's premises.
Newrest - who have a chequered history in terms of management buy-outs, already supply BACF / LCY from their Barking kitchen. They don't have a production facility in the LGW area so I presume they too are going to create one near there - I'm not sure it's a great idea to send trucks from their LHR facility at Poyle (near T5) around the M25 every day.
The big losers here are Alpha catering, who currently do LGW's short and longhaul (and on shorthaul it wasn't as good as LHR frankly). Their owner is dnata. And Gate Gourmet, who do longhaul LHR apart from JFK.
Newrest - who have a chequered history in terms of management buy-outs, already supply BACF / LCY from their Barking kitchen. They don't have a production facility in the LGW area so I presume they too are going to create one near there - I'm not sure it's a great idea to send trucks from their LHR facility at Poyle (near T5) around the M25 every day.
The big losers here are Alpha catering, who currently do LGW's short and longhaul (and on shorthaul it wasn't as good as LHR frankly). Their owner is dnata. And Gate Gourmet, who do longhaul LHR apart from JFK.
Sep 12, 2018, 10:31 am
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Luckily we , leisure travellers, do get a really nice cosy lounge.
Uncle T , enjoy the bubbles and relaxed atmosphere there!
Sep 13, 2018, 6:10 am
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Not sure if this has been mentioned anywhere else, but according to Business Traveller, there is going to be a phased handover to Do&Co between October and 2020 -
BA currently uses Gate Gourmet for all other catering on flights departing Heathrow, but from October the carrier will begin a phased switch over to new Do&Co menus, with all outbound services in all classes expected to be covered by early 2020.
https://www.businesstraveller.com/bu...b52d-162913437
BA currently uses Gate Gourmet for all other catering on flights departing Heathrow, but from October the carrier will begin a phased switch over to new Do&Co menus, with all outbound services in all classes expected to be covered by early 2020.
https://www.businesstraveller.com/bu...b52d-162913437
Sep 13, 2018, 7:17 am
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As most of our l/h travel is ex-LGW (with our buckets and spades!) I shall be very interested to see how Newrest turn out ... a very different environment from CityFlyer, I assume.
Oct 29, 2018, 4:32 am
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Sorry that I missed this at the time but Gate Gourmet will not be missed. Frankly GG should have been fired long ago. Alpha kept working so LGW services never suffered.I may be suffering from memory distortion so please correct me if I am wrong.
Oct 29, 2018, 4:59 am
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I like the new offering a lot. The coronoation chicken salad I had on the way back from TXL was very tasty, and well presented. Though I do wonder what would happen if there was someone with a nut allergy. A once promising athlete some years ago died as a result of eating a coronation chicken sandwich in Bath. It shoudl of course have almonds, but can have traces of peanuts. It was delicious and there is now 50% more chicken than the old caterers.
