Earlier this month, GMT, the Bush House canteen, was reviewed in the Food & Drink section of the Financial Times! It's very unusual for one of our catering outlets to be covered in the national press, however this follows positive coverage on our Pacific Quay facilities in Glasgow several months back.
GMT at Bush House received excellent feedback, with the writer describing it as 'phenomenally popular'. The reviewer writes:
"The World Service never sleeps, and the staff broadcasting to its 40 million listeners can buy cheap food here round the clock, with breakfast available from 2am...by lunchtime the place is heaving.
"On a recent visit I chose the oyster salmon – a surprisingly succulent piece of fish with a garlicky parmesan crust. Extras were basic (think school salad bar) but a decent rice pudding left me feeling I’d had excellent value for my fiver.
"Melvyn Bragg recently described this as “far and away the best canteen food on the planet”. I wouldn’t go that far myself, but it’s an undeniably jolly experience."
Read the full review on the FT website.
If you didn’t see the BBC Two programme Liquid Gold on Tuesday night, it's worth a look. The programme was all about the bottled water industry and featured One Water. It's staggering to see how this market place has grown beyond all expectations and I learned lot of interesting facts.
As part of Workplace’s corporate responsibility agenda we support One Water and it was interesting to see how they were included in the documentary. I found the case they made to be compelling.
To learn more about the work we have done with One Water and the contributon we are making you can now view a short video report on my recent trip to Malawi. Hopefully it will provide you with food for thought as to how we can all do our bit to help others less fortunate than us.
I recently had the opportunity to attend a two day summit with my peers from 15 large organisations from across the world. It wasn't your typical conference, but more of a highly focused series of workshops designed to achieve real insight on how we can add value to our respective organisations.
Facilitated by Unwired's Philip Ross, and assisted by Barry Varcoe, the content was certainly very thought provoking. Whilst I agonised about taking this time out of a hectic timetable I truly found the trip valuable in a whole range of areas. The debate and discussion enabled me to bring fresh perspective to the many challenges we face today in Workplace.
Let me start the discussion by posing key questions the summit grappled with. What is the future of work? What are we going to do with all the surplus office space? How are we going to address the growing demands for organisations to act in a more responsible and environmentally friendly way? How can we reduce the tremendous waste in our supply chains? As consumers of buildings how can we get better value? BBC Workplace has a big responsibility in addressing these issues and more. Please do engage as I feedback further on this in the weeks ahead.
|16:34 UK time, Tuesday, 30 November 2010
