2017 Business Excellence Awards

Acquisition International - Business Excellence Awards 2017 27 Best for Hospitality Training & Consulting - UK Anderson Food Hygiene Founded in 2003, Anderson Food Hygiene is a Multi Award Winning Training and Consultancy Company working within the Hospitality Industry, winning 21 UK and Local Business Awards, delivering specific, tailored and innovative Food Safety and Health and Safety solutions to a variety of high profile hospitality clients ranging from 5* hotels The Langham; The Beaumont; The Ritz; Claridges and The Connaught a well-known 5*. Restaurants like The Ivy; Scott’s; Sexy Fish; Zuma; Roka; The Wolseley; Oblix to 5* supermarkets and retail outlets like John Lewis; Waitrose; Whole Foods Market and destination venues such as Chessington World of Adventures and Chicago Rib Shack. The Company offers a bespoke service to ensure each client receives the support they need, as Sylvia explains. “At Anderson Food Hygiene, when we take on a new client or project we use a tailored approach as every food business is different from premises; cooking processes; staff and customers. We become part of their team, being always accessible to ensure they meet UK legislation and educating each team member on the pitfalls of getting it wrong. “Our team of Consultants assist each client providing guidance on menu changes for high-risk foods; documenting and implementing new cooking procedures; delivering new starter training or refreshing their food safety/health & safety training right through to delivering risk assessments; new policies and procedures for new store openings. “This dedicated approach ensures that we are our clients’’ learning gateway; their safety net; their personal food hygiene expert – we repair, protect and develop their food safety and health & safety standards to achieve a 5* Food Hygiene Rating.” Among the Company’s vast client list is Cirrus Inns, who own the Epicurean Collection, 20 iconic country pubs and inns including The Punchbowl, Mayfair. Anderson Food Hygiene is a vibrant, Training, Auditing and Consultancy Company dedicated to educating the importance of Food Hygiene, HACCP, Health And Safety, First Aid, Fire Safety, Licensing and Train the Trainer to a diverse client base within the UK and Internationally. We invited Managing Director Sylvia Anderson to tell us more about the Company and the range of services it offers. Company: Anderson Food Hygiene Contact: Sylvia Anderson Contact Email: enquiries@ andersonfoodhygiene.co.uk Address: Tuition House 23-27 St George’s Road Wimbledon, London SW19 4EU Phone: 0208 687 0654 Website: www.andersonfoodhygiene.co.uk Twitter: @foodhygiene1 Facebook: andersonfoodhygiene LinkedIn: foodhygieneexpert BE170034 Although a challenging annual Audit project, it remains one of the most memorable and favourite projects for Sylvia. “Being retained to deliver an extensive Auditing, Training and HACCP programme with one of the most forward thinking food businesses in the UK is very exciting. The Epicurean Collection have a real vision to deliver creative and challenging British food focusing heavily on locally sourced produce and embracing complicated new cooking methods to generate standout and rejuvenate the British Pub Industry. Tim Powell, Head of Food, has been instrumental in ensuring that I am personally involved in supporting each individual team providing constant support from regular audits; training and instilling best practice at each site. It is extremely important, as a business, that we are able to ensure they retain their Food Hygiene ratings and that they operate safely especially when they are working with more high-risk food such as salmon gravlax and beef carpaccio – a complicated but very rewarding experience.” In order to build upon the success the business has already achieved, Anderson Food Hygiene remains committed to developing and adapting its service offering to ensure clients receive the very best support and training, as Sylvia outlines in her concluding comments. “Looking ahead, the priority for 2017 onwards is to focus on increasing our revenue significantly through changing our focus to delivering more packaged solutions to the Hospitality Industry. To do this, we need to continue to raise my profile as a Food Hygiene Expert throughout the UK, and as such we will be working with ITV, BBC and Channel 4 to ultimately be the voice of Food Hygiene. “Longer term, our five-year Business Strategy outlines plans for profit growth across our portfolio of services focusing on securing more food safety and health and safety audits and manuals, HACCP development, EHO inspection support, food poisoning allegations and health and safety and fire risk assessments. To achieve this, we are embracing new types of training mechanisms and investing in new technology to streamline our auditing and HACCP solutions. This will provide us with many exciting opportunities going forward which we are looking forward to taking advantage of.” “...Anderson Food Hygiene remains committed todeveloping and adapting its service offering to ensure clients receive the very best support and training .”