Although contract caterers could be forgiven for thinking their role is to serve good food at keen prices in attractive environments it appears in the spirit of "the client is always right" a certain operational flexibility is always useful.
Yes having puzzled over Atkins, endured the cabbage diet (pooey) and got our heads around GI, a new "revolutionary" diet aid has arrived in the City and could be on the menu at a firm near you soon.
ReSet is a weight loss programme that claims to do-what-it-says-on the-tin and reset the function of your pancreas, reducing acidity to a neutral PH to reprogramme appetite and reduce hunger and cravings with the use of an apparently patented technology called Viscofiber plus Whey Protein (yes, that's the science part).
It's all natural of course, if giving your pancreas a spit-and-polish can ever be described so, and Kitchen Rat knows of at least one London hedge firm where the hard working, high earning types there have asked their caterer to stock ReSet after the personal trainers at their internal gym (nice) suggested this brave new alternative to self flagellation.
Unsurprisingly the caterer in question hasn't jumped at adding the diet aid, which is rumoured to cost several hundred pounds a pop as part of the five- to-six week course, as a complement to its range of freshly made smoothies, coffee, pastries and salad bar, fearing that when fickle fashion moves on leaving them with unsold bottles of the stuff it won't be just the staff that are a few pounds lighter but the caterer's bank balance, also.