CESA unveils Foodservice Order of Merit Recipients

Hotelympia celebrates winners’ contributions to the industry

Hotelympia 2012 saw the launch of the Foodservice Order of Merit Awards.  Organised by CESA, the Catering Equipment Suppliers Association, the awards are designed to honour foodservice professionals who have all made major contributions to the industry. 

The recipients of the 2012 CESA Foodservice Order of Merit were announced at a special industry breakfast at Hotelympia on Monday 27th February. “These are people who have helped advance the hospitality market and who have often given their time freely.  At CESA we feel it’s time the industry recognised them,” says Mick Shaddock, chair of CESA.  “We have been developing the Order of Merit concept for over 12 months and, being the UK’s most important catering exhibition, Hotelympia is the obvious place to hold the ceremony.

“The recipients of the awards are drawn from across the industry – operators and suppliers, caterers and manufacturers – but all of them, crucially, movers and shakers.”

The Recipients of the CESA Foodservice Order of Merit Awards, 2012:

Geoff Booth, Director, School of Hospitality, Westminster Kingsway College

Andrew Green, Chairman, Craft Guild of Chefs

David Foskett, Professor, University of West London

Stephen Moss CBE, Chairman, Springboard

Iain Munro, Chairman, Catering Equipment Distributors Association

Torbjörn Peltonen, President, BFS, Sweden

David Bentley, Chairman, FCSI UK & Ireland

Matt Baker, Chairman, Arena

Thierry Brener, President, SYNEG

Jennipher Marshall-Jenkinson, Chairman, Microwave Association

Andrea Sasso, CECED Italia

William Baxter CBE, Chairman, Hospitality Action

Ruston Toms, Chairman, Association of Catering Excellence

Julie Morrissey, Catering Equipment Association

Geoffrey Osborne BEM, Worshipful Company of Cooks

Julie Barker, Managing Director, The University Caterers Organisation

The Earl of Bradford, Chairman, Restaurant Association

Sir David Michels, President, Institute of Hospitality

Linda Mitchell, Chairman, LACA

Karen Oliver, Chair, National Association of Care Catering

Steve Follett, President, NAFEM

Ugur Atalay, President, TUSID

Janice Gillan, National Chairman, Hospital Caterers Association

Jonathan Doughty, Chairman, FCSI Europe, Africa, Middle East

Christiane Wodtke, President, HKI

The Catering Equipment Suppliers Association (CESA) is the authoritative voice of the catering equipment industry, representing over 160 companies who supply, service and maintain all types of commercial catering equipment – from utensils to full kitchen schemes.  For more information on CESA visit www.cesa.org.uk