Food-Services

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Foodservice

We′re here to provide a choice of high quality, nutritious and well balanced food to meet people′s needs throughout the day and throughout life.

• ✔ Refreshing tired minds and refuelling the productivity of people at work;
• ✔ Helping boost the concentration of young minds at school and college;
• ✔ Meeting dietary needs to help aid recovery in hospital;
• ✔ Creating that unforgettable dinner at the event of a lifetime; or
• ✔ Providing a taste of home when you′re many miles away.

Wherever we are feeding people, their demand for quality, choice and value are equally as discerning as you would find on the high street. Our consumer focus is driving the development and innovation in our food offers, brands and service in order to attract people to our restaurants and food outlets day in day out.

Progress in reducing the number of hungry people

The vast majority of hungry people live in developing regions, which saw a 42 percent reduction in the prevalence of undernourished people between 1990–92 and 2012–14. Despite this progress, about one in eight people, or 13.5 percent of the overall population, remain chronically undernourished in these regions, down from 23.4 percent in 1990–92. As the most populous region in the world, Asia is home to two out of three of the world′s undernourished people.

There has been the least progress in the sub–Saharan region, where more than one in four people remain undernourished – the highest prevalence of any region in the world. Nevertheless, the prevalence of undernourishment in sub–Saharan Africa has declined from 33.2 percent in 1990– 92 to 23.2 percent in 2014–16, although the number of undernourished people has actually increased.

Children and hunger

Children are the most visible victims of undernutrition. Black et al (2013) estimate that undernutrition in the aggregate–including fetal growth restriction, stunting, wasting, and deficiencies of vitamin A and zinc along with suboptimum breastfeeding–is a cause of 3·1 million child deaths annually or 45% of all child deaths in 2011 (Black et al. 2013). Undernutrition magnifies the effect of every disease, including measles and malaria. The estimated proportions of deaths in which undernutrition is an underlying cause are roughly similar for diarrhea (61%), malaria (57%), pneumonia (52%), and measles (45%) (Black 2003, Bryce 2005). Malnutrition can also be caused by diseases, such as the diseases that cause diarrhea, by reducing the body′s ability to convert food into usable nutrients.

Micronutrients

Quite a few trace elements or micronutrients–vitamins and minerals–are important for health. Three very important micronutrient deficiencies in terms of health consequences for poor people in developing countries are:

• ✔Iron :In developing countries every second pregnant woman and about 40% of preschool children are estimated to be anemic.
• ✔In many developing countries, iron deficiency anemia is aggravated by worm infections, malaria and other infectious diseases such as HIV and tuberculosis.
• ✔The major health consequences include poor pregnancy outcome, impaired physical and cognitive development, increased risk of morbidity in children and reduced work productivity in adults. Anemia contributes to 20% of all maternal deaths.
• ✔Vitamin A : Vitamin A deficiency can cause night blindness and reduces the body′s resistance to disease. In children Vitamin A deficiency can also cause growth retardation.