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Pubs & Casual Dining

Nestlé Professional works tirelessly to support pubs, restaurants and hotels through insights, support packs, recipe inspiration and chef training videos. Understanding the demands and challenges our customers face is our top priority, so we have developed a range of pub supplies, bar supplies and further solutions to not only improve customer satisfaction but also business efficiency. After all, for our partners and for the industry, hospitality is more than just a business, it is our business…

Whitbread has partnered with Nestlé Professional’s plant-based brand Garden Gourmet® to launch meat-free dishes on menus at 1,200 of its pub, restaurant and hotel sites. Find out what Whitbread’s Lead Development Chef has to say about Garden Gourmet®.

 

‘It’s really important for Garden Gourmet to be featured on our menu. In time, I believe they’ll be one of the key players out there on the market…we are trying to educate customers or guests by having what we believe is a great product’ – Mervyn Desir, Lead Development Chef, Whitbread

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Plant-Based Menu Ideas

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With 25% of evening meals in the UK now vegan or vegetarian and 1 in 3 people reducing or stopping their meat consumption according to The Vegan Society*, there’s a growing demand for hard-working plant-based menu options.

In line with these customer expectations, we have created an array of menu ideas from Garden Gourmet® within our pub supplies that will inspire you to develop plant-based began and vegetarian menus.

 

* https://www.vegansociety.com/news/media/statistics

1.1 billion statistic
Power to the plants: the rise of plant-based eating (2)
Mintel, 2019
6 in 10 stat
Kantar Profiles/Mintel (3)
August 2021
92% stat
Lumina Intelligence Eating & Drinking Out Panel (4)
26/12/2021

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