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| 2019 AUGUST ARE GRABBING AND GOING AND GRABBING ARE WHY MORE CUSTOMERS THAN EVER EVER THAN CUSTOMERS MORE WHY THE NEED FOR SPEED FOR NEED THE Out of home magazine — AUGUST | 2019 3 Welcome Welcome Published by: H2O Publishing, Joynes House, New Road, Gravesend DA11 0AJ Tel: 0345 500 6008 www.oohmagazine.co.uk @OOHmagazine Managing Director When Burger King announced earlier in the year Jamie Robbins that it would begin selling a plant-based Whopper, Divisional Director Rob Molinari 07850 797 252 perhaps unsurprisingly, some eyebrows were [email protected] raised. And when the chain’s North America Twitter: @RobMolinari Director president Christopher Finazzo claimed that in Daniel Hillman 07833 248 788 extensive blind tests “virtually nobody can tell the [email protected] Twitter: @hillmandan difference”, you’d need to be able to stretch the Director Marc Sumner old upper facial fuzz to virtually Cher-like heights 07730 217 747 [email protected] to express the requisite amount of scepticism. Twitter: @sumner_marc However, the new Impossible Whopper has quickly Classified Sales Sue Stunt received a seal of approval – and from something 01474 520 243 [email protected] of an unlikely source. Editor Henry Norman The meat-mimicking product, the result of a partnership with Impossible Foods, 01474 520 248 [email protected] which is renowned for its ‘bleeding’ burger, is now being trialled nationwide. And one Twitter: @HenryHNorman particularly impressed customer was Eric Bohl – who just happens to be director of Editorial Director public affairs for the Missouri Farm Bureau. Tristan O’Hana In a review-cum-warning to his colleagues, Bohl wrote: “If farmers and ranch- Features Writer Gemma Bradish ers think we can mock and dismiss these products as a passing fad, we’re kidding Contributors ourselves. If I didn’t know what I was eating, I would have no idea it was not beef. Jane Renton, Shannon Hudson, Ed Dickinson, Rob Kelly Farmers and ranchers need to take notice and get ready to compete.” and Steven Okonkwo Dunkin’ has since hitched itself to the burger giant’s bandwagon – though this Design Marc Ayres meat-free movement can’t be regarded as being a runaway success just yet. The Matt Bailey fact remains that the Impossible Whopper meal, when saddled with a medium fries Wiktoria Armstrong and Coke, still comes in at a whopping 1,280 calories – making it far kinder on the Production Nepor Ngobeh environment than it is on the abs sadly. Printed by Buxton Press The new Impossible Whopper has quickly received a seal of approval The paper used within this publication has been sourced from Chain-of-Custody certified manufacturers, operating within international environmental standards to ensure sustainable sourcing of the raw materials, sustainable production and to minimise our carbon footprint. Oohmagazine.co.uk | @OOHmagazine 5 Aug Contents 2019 Contents The big interview 12 Mark Fox, Roadchef Operator profile – Street food Grab and go 18 Bittenclub 23 A need for speed News Events Recipe New products 06 30 lunch! 2019 49 A taste of summer burger 56 Street food focus Packaging and disposables Market insight Food for thought 11 Kolkati 36 Pack to the future 50 Dining out 58 Food to go StrEAT Food Challenge Operator profile – Café Dates for your diary 16 Steven Chatfield, Rok Kitchen 42 Vegan Antics 51 BSA bulletin Gluten- and allergen-free Legal 20 Training 44 Freestyling 52 Zero-hour contracts BITES From the front line Reader offers 21 High street trends 48 Planning 53 Win Pan’Artisan goodies! Oohmagazine.co.uk 6 News The n-Oohs Boxpark announces nationwide expansion plans Boxpark has announced plans to expand BoxHall. These smaller, 10,000 sq ft to nationwide, with a further 10 new sites 20,000 sq ft destinations will be based opening over the next five years. The on existing sites within city centres move will see the launch of two brand-new across the UK, featuring between six concepts from the specialist retail and and 12 quality street food vendors at leisure developer. each site. The first concept, BoxOffice, is a Boxpark founder and CEO Roger Wade co-working space that will be incorporated said: “I’m really excited to announce our into new Boxpark sites. These schemes plans for our new BoxOffice and BoxHall will be 50,000 sq ft to 150,000 sq ft in size, concepts. Boxpark has always been an with developments featuring street food innovator in the retail and leisure sector, and and bars set up on the ground floor; and these formats demonstrate our investment leisure operators, such as cinemas, crazy in continuing to evolve both the brand and golf and karaoke, set between two to four the sites we build and operate. These two floors of co-working space above. major new innovations will help us secure a In addition to BoxOffice, Boxpark further 10 sites across the UK over the next will also roll out its new food hall concept, five years.” Black Sheep Coffee opens third site Black Sheep Coffee, the specialist independent coffee shop group best known for its cafés, kiosks and cocktail bars, opened a new site in Manchester’s Deansgate recently. The outlet is the third addition to Black Sheep Coffee’s presence in Manchester, joining its existing venues located in Piccadilly Place and Spring Gardens. The new site will offer all of the small chain’s signature beverages, such as its Nitro Cold Brew, alongside a new speciality coffee, Tudo Bom, an 86 graded blend that has been naturally processed on the mountains of Cerrado Mineiro in Brazil. Additionally, Black Sheep Cof- fee’s hotdogs, featuring either beef or pork and cheese, will be on the summer menu. Gabriel Shohet and Eirik Holth, co-founders of Black Sheep Coffee, said: “We are delighted to be opening a third site in Manchester follow- ing the success of our existing two sites in the city. This new opening showcases the exciting expansion of the Black Sheep Coffee family.” Gather & Gather opens second Primark café The contract caterer Gather & Gather recently opened a new in-store café for Primark, at the Braehead Shopping Centre in Glasgow. The Primarket Café features a wide-ranging menu, high-quality service and competitive pricing, offering customers a break from their retail therapy. As well as a range of speciality coffees, frappes, iced teas and soft drinks, the café offers a variety of hot and cold snacks, from pitta pizzas, toasties and breakfast baps, through to waffles, vegan traybakes, gluten-free brownies and rainbow cake. This is the second outlet that Gather & Gather has opened in a Primark store following the launch of the Central Perk café at Primark Manchester in June. Allister Richards, managing director of Gather & Gather, said: “It’s a pleasure to once again be collaborating on a new café for Primark customers to enjoy. We’re proud that Primark shares our passion for sustainability and we look forward to expanding our partnership.” Oohmagazine.co.uk | @OOHmagazine 7 Seed & Cherry opens News in Manchester Seed & Cherry, a new artisanal coffee shop offering a range of carefully sourced, speciality grade beans from across the world, is now open in the Northern Quarter in Manchester. The independently owned coffee shop opened recently close to Arndale food market. It claims to be the first shop of its kind in Manchester, with its concept having been designed to showcase the depth and personality each coffee bean it has to offer. There will always be one blend and four different single-origin beans on offer at any one time. Aqsa Zaheer, co-founder of Seed & Cherry, said: “We are really excited to be open- ing! We have recruited a really talented workforce, including some of the best people from Manchester’s hospitality scene, from speciality baristas to people with experience in high-end fine dining restaurants and bars.” BITES Live returns! BITES Live, the all-encompassing high street conference for hospitality and foodservice operators, is returning to London this October. After launching last year, featuring speak- ers from Honest Burgers, Fulham Shore and many other industry-leading businesses, BITES Live will once again open its doors at the Royal Garden Hotel in Kensington to bring a packed day of exclusive insight and opinion to operators from the foodservice and hospitality industries. Speakers already confirmed for the event include Jonathan Downey, founder of London Union; Clive Watson, hospitality consultant and founder of Riding House Café; pioneering research agency Savanta; and ETM Group. Also on the bill is Rak Kalidas, commercial director of Levy UK, who will take the BITES Live audience through the thinking behind each element of hospitality at the new Tottenham Hotspur stadium. How does a caterer keep customers off the high street and inside an arena? All will be revealed in this fascinating presentation. “Our goal for BITES Live is simple,” says Tristan O’Hana, editorial director of H2O Publishing, “to create an event where multiple sectors can come together, share ideas and insight, before returning to their respective businesses with full notepads, a stack of ideas and motivating inspiration for the future. Last year’s event certainly delivered, so we can’t wait to welcome the foodservice and hospitality industries to BITES Live 2019.” The conference is supported by the BITES high street mailer, which looks at brands, insights, trends and experiences across a number of sectors. BITES Live is taking place on 9th October at the Royal Garden Hotel in London, running from 9.30am to 3pm. To join your peers from the café, casual dining, contract catering, pubs, bars and hotels sec- tors, visit biteslive.co.uk for tickets.