The Caterer Chef Summit
Covering both craft and kitchen management, the Chef Summit will explore the latest dining habits and customer expectations. Fellow chefs will share their tips for inspiring a brigade and developing dishes that both tempt in diners and deliver to a budget.
This free webinar will explore emerging trends in cuisine in food and drink, as well as exploring how chefs can harness social media to encourage guests to engage with their brand. Our chef panel will also share the secrets to running successful restaurant while building a positive workplace culture to foster the best culinary talent.
In this summit you will learn
- The latest food and drink trends for 2025
- How to use social media to grow your brand
- The art of running a successful restaurant
- How to design a winning menu and create memorable dishes that deliver a healthy GP
Speakers:
Agenda:
Speaker:
James Stagg, editor, The Caterer
Foodservice supplier Bidfood outlines the hottest food and drink trends for 2025. Join this session to find out about the exciting new trends that will shape menus next year
In this session, you will learn:
- What are latest cuisines from around the world that are trending
- What cautious consumers are happy to spend more on
- More about the 56% who consider themselves to be ‘foodies’
- What themes are emerging on the health and sustainability landscape
- See how the trends can be translated into great recipes and menu solutions
Speakers:
Martin Eshelby, food innovation manager, Bidfood
Catherine Hinchcliff, head of corporate marketing and insight, Bidfood
In today's digital age, social media can be a powerful tool for chefs to build their brand and drive business growth, but how can chefs effectively use social media to truly engage with guests and, in turn, improve their restaurant?
Join Will Murray of Fallow, Fowl and Roe restaurants in London who, along with co-founder Jack Croft, has built a vast online following by sharing chefs’ tips on social media.
The HERD Instagram account has more than a million followers, while the Fallow YouTube account has almost half a million. But this success is no accident. The business invests heavily in marketing, with four full-time social media-focused colleagues.
In this session, you will learn:
- Why chefs should think of creating a dish as creating a piece of content
- How to plan content strategies and engage your teams to deliver social content
- How to choose which social platform works best for your business
- Tactics to build an online community
Speaker:
Will Murray, chef and co-founder, Fallow, Fowl and Roe
In this panel we gather chef-restaurateurs at the top of their game to discuss how they continue to run successful restaurants.
In this session, you will learn:
- How do you design a winning menu
- How to maintain a healthy GP while delivering stunning dishes
- What guests want from dining in 2025 and beyond
- Are tasting menus still the hot ticket?
- Which equipment makes a commercial kitchen a seamless operation
Speakers:
Jason Atherton, chef-restaurateur
James Dempsey, application manager iHexagon, RATIONAL UK
Roberta Hall-McCarron, executive chef and owner, The Little Chartroom and Eleanore
Simon Wood, chef patron, WOOD Manchester
Moderator:
James Stagg, editor, The Caterer
Sponsors:
At Bidfood, it’s our mission to deliver service excellence, make life easier for our customers and help them grow. With over 10,000 products in our range, including food, drink and catering supplies, our passion for great food is something we share with more than 40,000 customers. For us, it’s not just about making deliveries, it’s about going above and beyond by adding value. Whether it’s keeping up with the latest food and drink trends, navigating the latest legislation or sharing key nutritional advice, our team of experts are on hand to keep our customers ahead of the curve so they can hit the mark with consumers.
Rational, a leading name in the professional kitchen equipment industry, has established its reputation through innovation, particularly with its advanced cooking systems. Their appliances are designed to enhance flexibility, efficiency, and sustainability, addressing the daily challenges faced by modern kitchens.
Rational's intelligent cooking systems, the iVario technologically advanced bratt pan and the iCombi combi-steamer offer comprehensive thermal solutions for professional kitchens. They can replace a wide range of traditional appliances and replicate various cooking processes, all while saving space and reducing cooking times and energy consumption.
As the market leader in thermal catering equipment, Rational takes pride in being a company of chefs for chefs. With a team of 500 master chefs worldwide, they draw upon extensive culinary expertise to ensure their products meet the specific needs of their customers.
Rational's mission is to provide maximum benefits to those preparing hot food in professional kitchens. They offer exceptional support through on-site training, specialised academies, and a 24/7 ChefLine. To attend a RATIONAL CookLive demonstration visit: https://www.rational-online.com/en_gb/see-for-yourself/rational-live-events/