No honour amongst thieves?

Contract caterers are generally an honourable bunch (aside from the occasional bout of well-humoured bitching about each other).

However, it’s also a given that caterers phone each other’s clients to keep in touch and “see how it’s going”.

Still, Kitchen Rat was mightily amused to hear that as one well known foodservice consultancy hammers out a code of conduct for the industry, which has popular support, one cheeky business is, shall we say, up to its old tricks of stretching the truth.

Misinformation may be a useful tactic but it’s not entirely professional.

Unsurprisingly, we hear Bartlett Mitchell (BM) co-founder Wendy Bartlett is on the warpath after it emerged that the contract caterer in question has had its sales team telling potential clients that BM is about to be sold.

Very naughty.

Apparently the very same contract caterer was last year putting a similar rumour out in the marketplace about Midlands based Catermasters.