ceda is constantly looking for ways to raise standards within our industry. We are currently planning to improve the provision of training for engineers in Scotland.

Following the pandemic, the industry has lost a substantial number of experienced engineers throughout the UK and this has increased the need for recruiting and developing new engineers. ceda has developed a funded apprenticeship in England, however, due to the devolved nature of education and training, it has not been possible for Scottish companies to benefit from this development.

ceda members in Scotland have bemoaned the lack of cost-effective training for service engineers in Scotland, including apprenticeships, when compared to England. and therefore, ceda is planning an online Zoom meeting which is open to all service companies in Scotland, irrespective of whether they are ceda members or not.

The meeting is planned for 10.30am on Wednesday 7th December and the objective is to discuss employers’ needs for engineer training and to identify ways in which ceda may be able to help organise the provision of suitable cost-effective courses.

If you or a colleague would like to be invited to the meeting please email Peter Kay, ceda Technical Support Advisor, at peterkay@ceda.co.uk.

“An exceptional candidate” is the judges’ unanimous choice

The winner of the 2022 Kitchen Porter of the Year competition has been announced. He is Michael Toader of the Victory Services Club in London.

The competition, in its ninth year, is the brain child of ceda Partner Winterhalter UK. It was created to recognise the importance of KPs in the catering and foodservice industries. Since 2013, restaurants, pubs, hotels, schools and contract caterers have nominated their staff to celebrate the vital but often underappreciated work they do.

This year’s entries were of a particularly high standard, but Michael’s was the only one to be awarded top marks by every judge.

“I’m happy, so very very happy,” Michael said as he received the award from Winterhalter UK’s managing director Stephen Kinkead in a special presentation at the Club.  He went on to describe working at the Victory Service Club as like being part of a family.  “The KP is the best job for me!” he added.

The panel of judges were particularly impressed by Michael’s dedication to the role and his “unequalled work ethic”. Paul Mattocks, executive chef at the Victory Services Club, nominated Michael and outlined some of his achievements in his application.  For example, he included how Michael moved into the Club for six months during the pandemic in order to provide meals for key workers along with a skeleton team of staff, and how he has taken the lead on tending the Club’s rooftop vegetable and herb garden.

Michael has worked his way up from an agency KP role to become head kitchen porter, helping to train new staff and reinforcing the high standards expected at the Club. He is constantly looking to improve working processes to increase the KP teams’ productivity and has taken on additional responsibilities such as energy warden, finding ways to reduce the kitchen’s energy consumption. In 2021 he was the Club’s employee of the year, having been unanimously selected by 80 employees.

The judging panel for KP of the Year included James Horler, chief executive of Ego Restaurants and chairman of Notes Music & Coffee and Ping Pong; Deborah Homshaw, managing director of education and healthcare at CH&Co; and Stephen Kinkead, managing director of Winterhalter UK.

“I loved the fact that Michael called up to wish team members a happy birthday while he was on holiday,” says Deborah Homshaw. “Little things like that make a huge difference to the team, he’s a fantastic winner.”

James Horler agrees. “He was a standout candidate, from a quality venue, demonstrating real commitment to the role of KP.”

“It was easy to pick Michael as the winner,” says Stephen Kinkead. “He is the epitome of the ideal kitchen porter.”

As overall winner, Michael wins £1000 as well as a celebratory meal for family and friends at a casual dining restaurant of his choice, while the Victory Services Club wins one of Winterhalter’s products worth up to £8000.

The runners up were Gerry Daly of Cameron House, Scotland and Victor Shooter of Baxterstorey, London. Lango Wyaba of Le Cordon Bleu, London and Remy Tingson of The Red Lion (Fuller’s), London were both highly commended. All four were awarded a cash prize for their efforts and will also receive a special KP of the Year apron, as will all the entrants.

Winterhalter provides a total solution for dishwashing and glasswashing, from pre-sales advice to after-sales service, training and maintenance, with sustainability fitted as standard.  Alongside its market-leading dish washers and glass washers, the company’s range includes utensil washers, advanced water treatment machines, and cleaning detergents and rinse aids.  For further details, call Winterhalter on 01908 359000, visit www.winterhalter.com/uk-en/ or email info@winterhalter.co.uk.

As a professional in design, projects and equipment for the foodservice, catering and hospitality industry, when you offer to carry out a service you must be able to provide an adequate degree of skill, with enough knowledge and experience to responsibly advise about the work you undertake.

If you are unable to carry out this service to the standard expected, you can be held liable for any loss or damage to people or property caused as a result of your work. And having a professional indemnity insurance policy can help protect you against any potential claims, including legal defence.

We’ve answered some of the common questions businesses are googling about professional indemnity insurance, including who needs PI insurance and what it covers.

Find out more

Need expert advice?

Get in touch with our insurance experts. Call Leah Gregory on 07385 482545 or email leah.gregory@marshcommercial.co.uk.

Welcome to ignite, by ceda.

ceda represents over 120 companies across the UK. And each and every ceda member is a specialist. Design specialists, project specialists and equipment specialists. All exclusively serving the foodservice, catering and hospitality industry.

Quite rightly, we’re massively proud of what our members create. And so ignite is their showcase. In each issue we feature amazing projects and installations for organisations of all sizes up and down the UK and beyond.

Every year at our annual conference we honour the best of our members’ projects with the ceda Grand Prix Awards. In this special edition of ignite we celebrate the 2022 winning projects!

We hope that you enjoy ignite.

If you like what you see, please contact the relevant ceda member (there is a live link on their logo to their website) to discuss how they can bring your next foodservice project to life.

Alternatively, to learn more about ceda and our members, please visit our Find a Specialist page.

Is your property fully insured?

For property owners and investors – buildings insurance should provide a crucial safety net, protecting property assets against unforeseen events. But recent research has found that 80% of UK properties are underinsured.¹

So what is behind this alarming trend? It boils down to a number of issues, including:

• inaccurate property valuations
• rising construction costs
• indexing and day one uplifts in cover lagging behind.

With that in mind, property owners – particularly high net worth residential and commercial properties – should act now to review buildings insurance policies, paying particular attention to the accuracy of rebuild costs and sums insured.

Help is at hand

We work with RebuildCostASSESSMENT to offer our clients the peace of mind that comes with accurate insurance valuations based on multiple data sources. Find out about our rebuild cost assessment services.

*subject to qualifying criteria

Find out more

Need expert advice?

Get in touch with our insurance experts. Call Leah Gregory on 07385 482545 or email leah.gregory@marshcommercial.co.uk.

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SureFlow Counter Top Boilers offer filtered boiling and chilled water from a range of models in varying capacities and sizes. Catering and commercial facilities rely on hot and cold water on tap and on demand. That’s why so many choose the premium quality solutions offered by ceda Partner, Instanta.

The SureFlow Counter Top range can be placed on any flat counter top and has a variety of operation choices with touch-free models, single or twin-taps and simple push and hold dispense buttons.

Some other features and benefits to the range include:

• Contactless infrared operation on the touch-free counter-top models for areas where health and hygiene are a priority
• Early warning diagnostics to make sure the boiler is always performing to the highest standard
• Dual safety protection – boil dry and overfill protection
• Range of capacities available, with up to 135 litres
• Long-life Incoloy® elements and insulation for minimal heat loss
• Adjustable water temperature with boiling point factory set to operate at 96ºC for optimum results
• Energy saving ECO mode on the SureFlow Plus and High Volume models

The SureFlow Counter Top range is available to order online, for more information please visit – Counter Top Water Boilers | Commercial Water Boiler (instanta.com)

Need a robust but competitively-priced suite solution for the chain market? Look no further than the Counter SL series from ceda Partner, MKN.

Launched to the UK at the recent Commercial Kitchen Show, the Counter SL series combines all the flexibility of an innovative front-of-house cooking suite, with the power and durability that you can expect from a market leader.

• – A mid-range offering with premium quality and features
• – More than 70 electric and gas appliances available in fully integrated suites
• – Easy-to-clean drain channel and wall installation
• – Unique spring-loaded joining system
• – Built to the rigid and durable standards expected of MKN’s appliances
• – Can suite with MKN’s Hotline modular series of appliances for easy integration of under counter refrigeration or heated drawers
• – Proven on the European market
• – Competitively priced due to continued investment in our manufacturing facility

Energy-efficient, electric appliances

If your customers are looking for help with rising energy bills, the Counter SL series includes a wide choice of electric appliances to suit current trends for lower running costs.

Choose from Vitro CERAN hobs, induction hobs, deep fat fryers, griddle plates, bain maries, and more grills. Gas appliances are also available.

Counter SL can be suited with under-counter refrigeration or heated drawers from our Hotline system, and used alongside SpaceCombi and SpaceCombi Team compact combi steamers to optimise front of house floor space.

“A flexible alternative to our traditional modular or bespoke horizontal cooking solutions, without compromising on the hygiene standards, build quality and personalisation touches for which MKN is known.”

Find out more

Discover the opportunities of the Counter SL and Hotline modular series from MKN.

Visit www.mkn.com or call 01329 757890.

Rational, ceda Partner and the world market and technology leader in the field of hot food preparation in professional kitchens, has won this year’s Factory of the Year competition for its factory in Landsberg am Lech.

The annual prize is awarded by the management consultancy A T Kearney, and the industry journal Produktion. With a heritage of thirty years, it is the most traditional benchmark competition for the manufacturing industry in Germany.

Rational has already won the Global Excellence in Operations (GEO) Award twice in the past for its outstanding performance throughout the value chain. This year, the Rational factory in Landsberg is the overall winner.

As this year’s overall winner, Rational is being honoured for excellence, especially in the core competencies of cost-effectiveness and agility. According to the jury panel, the plant in Landsberg am Lech has made it to the top of its performance in Germany with an established problem-solving culture, and a systematic continuous improvement process.

“Thanks to our Rational lean working method, we are anchoring standardised, coordinated workflows and processes. We also see digitalisation as a great opportunity in production,” says Peter Wiedemann, Chief Operations Officer at Rational AG.

The panel was also impressed by the highly motivated staff. The team acts with a lot of personal responsibility and creative freedom through the ‘U.i.U.^® principle’ (intrapreneurship), which is reflected in the excellent production figures.

“Rational invests a lot in promoting and retaining its employees,” adds Daniel Stengel, Director at Kearney, explaining the jury panel’s decision to select Rational as the ‘Factory of the Year 2022’.

The factory also stood out from the other participants in matters such as speed of innovation, renewable energies and cost reduction.

“We are delighted to receive the overall prize this time. It is confirmation for us, but also an incentive to improve our processes even further,” says Peter Wiedemann.

The coveted prize will be awarded at an award ceremony in Munich in March 2023.

Hello and a warm welcome to this month’s Conference Special edition of connected.

We’re fresh back from The Belfry and feeling full of knowledge from our fantastic speakers, motivated
by new connections made at the Meet the Buyer day and inspired by all the Award winners!

Over the following pages, you can relive the highlights with us. Or if you were unable to attend, you can catch up with the top speaker programme from the Business Day and all the winners from the Legacy Awards, Supplier and Rising Star Awards and the ceda Grand Prix Awards 2022. The Speaker presentations and videos have also been added to the Conference website should you wish to re-watch or download the slides.

There’s a particularly nice write up of our chat with ceda Founder, Michael Swerdlow, who joined us for this year’s Conference, in ceda’s 50th anniversary year! We were delighted to present Michael with a Legacy Honours by ceda award and hear his story about how ceda was born. Read his story on page 15.

We hope you enjoy this issue of connected and we welcome your feedback and contributions for future editions.

On Tuesday 20th September ceda ran their first Water Regulations course at First Choice, in partnership with Water Regs UK.

The first course was attended by five engineers from Northern Catering Equipment and Tailor Made Catering Equipment Services Ltd, all of whom passed with flying colours. This enables them and their company to apply for membership of a Water Company Approved Contractor Scheme; meaning that they can self-certify that their work is in accordance with the regulations. It also eliminates the need to give notification and seek approval from Water Companies before commencing work.

Dan Mellor, Northern Catering Equipment, said, ”I found the one-day course very useful and relevant to my job.” Mellor’s job role includes working in both service and installation so it was great to get some positive feedback from him.

He went on to say, ”The session on contamination clarified the need for air gaps or check valves for some equipment. Jim Rowsell of Water Regs UK, who led the course, explained everything really well and I would certainly recommend the course to other engineers.”

Working in partnership with Water Regs UK, the course was developed as part of ceda’s role to encourage members and partners to ensure that their engineers are knowledgeable and competent in all aspects of their jobs. The course is one of the essential training modules for the Catering Equipment Installers Industry Training Standard which is the only route for non-gas accredited installation engineers to qualify for a CSCS card.

The course involves studying learning material for at least three weeks prior to the one-day course. The day of the assessment itself involves a review of the studied material in the morning prior to taking a multiple choice assessment in the afternoon.

The next course will be held on the 20^th October, also at First Choice’s Cannock HQ with a future live course planned for 22^nd November. Sometime next year, courses are planned to be delivered online.

The course is delivered to members and their subcontractors at cost which is £120.00 +VAT. The course is also available to non-members who will be charged a supplement of £30 + VAT to cover premises costs and refreshments.

A booking form can be downloaded from the Water Regs UK website (www.waterregsuk.co.uk/wiaps/how-do-i-join/aproved-catering-installer/) and should be completed and returned to Water Regs UK together with payment. Payment can be made by phone or bank transfer.