Next stop for the funbus is…

We told you last month about the funbus that we funded for Bucklebury Farm Park in Berkshire. Although it was acquired from a private vendor, our National Accounts Manager on the catering side, David Gadsden, managed to secure a cool £20,000 of our resources for the...

Catering could owe its reputation to excellent equipment

A recent review of the Kings Head at Yoxford near Saxmundham, Suffolk, said, “Great choice of food, very good quality and value. We visited on a Friday night and there were about 16 of us. Somehow the chef managed to bring our menu choices out all together, that must...

A sweet and simple deal for Bread & Honey

When you’re a well-established events catering company, you have to keep your standards high. If you’re based in London amidst the stiffest competition around, you have to be better than the rest. And if you have a client portfolio that includes the BBC, Cath Kidston,...

Water, water everywhere

It sounds delightful, doesn’t it? The Belgian Arms. A ‘great Britsh pub’ situated in the pretty village of Holyport, Maidenhead, set back from the green, overlooking the pond. And they offer really tasty British food that’s beautifully cooked, a great selection of...
Space-age look for a traditional catering outlet

Space-age look for a traditional catering outlet

They say that every cloud has a silver lining, but the effects that Hopkins Catering Equipment achieved with a refit of a fish and chip shop in Weston-super-Mare provided some dramatic back-lit effects in blue, with one of their latest energy-efficient counter frying...

The Johnson Reed recipe for hassle-free catering

Over the years we’ve become known for our expertise in niche financing, or ‘quirky kit finance’ as we like to call it. One such area is the catering and hospitality world and the recent addition of Dave Gadsden to the Johnson Reed team has greatly strengthened this...