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HC-One and EF-group renew longstanding partnership to enhance the lives of residents by signing five-year contract

HC-One, the UK’s leading social care provider, operating c.300 care homes and providing a wide range of care and support services to residents are thrilled to announce the renewal of its longstanding partnership with leading procurement and menu management specialists, EF-group, by signing a new five-year contract to continue enhancing the lives of residents.

Smart Strategies to Keep Menu Costs Under Control

In today’s catering landscape, controlling food costs isn’t just good practice - it’s essential for business survival. With rising prices across ingredients, utilities, and services, it's more important than ever to have a clear grip on your menu spend.

Flour: the cross-contact protagonist in every kitchen!

Recently Allergen Accreditation was commissioned to assess a kitchen’s management on their cross-contact controls and the main thrust of the audit was to undertake a probabilistic risk assessment. All other cereals containing gluten were tightly controlled, flour, however, needed work!

Sustainable Supply Chains: A Focus on Care Homes

For the care home industry, sustainability is not just a trend; it’s a necessary step forward. With the guidance of innovative solutions like those offered by EF-group, care homes are finding new ways to balance cost-efficiency with ESG

Navigating High Expectations: Care Home Chefs

Residents in care homes often have high expectations. Striking the right balance between service quality and cost, managing logistics, and ensuring dietary needs are met can seem daunting. Explore how EF-group's software solutions, Freshmarkets and CaterCloud, can assist you in achieving this delicate balance.

We now need ’embodied carbon declarations’.

As the UK pushes towards net-zero targets, sustainability is becoming a key concern in the catering and hospitality industry. While energy efficiency has long been a focus for kitchen appliances, the embodied carbon of catering equipment is now gaining attention.

Streamlining Procurement for Care Homes

In the dynamic world of care homes, where providing day-to-day essentials is as critical as offering compassionate care, catering teams face the complex task of ensuring that both food and non-food items meet high standards of quality and compliance, all while keeping costs in check.