EP is delighted to next week start a new events schedule. We will be welcoming Julie Ennis, CEO of Sodexo’s Corporate Services business across the UK & Ireland speaking at a forum, partnered with Zupa, looking at how technology is and has changed the food service sector.

It was a question which was debated last week during a dinner discussion with three MDs. Interestingly all the MDs felt that the answer lay with network, that the strength of one’s own network provided a consistent source of friendship, informal knowledge share and communication which would naturally lead to growth in one’s confidence.

Our thanks to all who have responded to the request for a working party to discuss and debate the issue surrounding the cost of tenders. There has been no shortage of interest in this topic and we have no few offers of interest to be involved.

Over the years we have written many times on this subject but still it appears in many presentations; the fact that millennials do not stay in roles and move between roles. Of course there is truth in this but the real question is never asked by many senior players as to why?