So, plans to get contract caterers to sign up to a code of conduct to stop school-yard shenanigans between them at handover time have taken another step closer to realisation.
A meeting of the great and good in the sector has been arranged for next month in London’s Canary Wharf business district to hammer out the details.
Apparently it's not unheard of for out going caterers to delete records of bookings, sabotage equipment and bad mouth the incoming party.
But wait.
Although news that the ex-HR director at Gate Gourmet during the horror show that was the Heathrow staff dispute of 2005 is dishing out advice to Acas – itself a conciliation service – is certainly delicious, Kitchen Rat can go one better in regards to the code of conduct.
If you remember, Bartlett Mitchell (BM) head Wendy Bartlett was justifiably on the warpath last month when news reached her that a competitor, who has previous, had its sales team telling potential clients that BM was about to be sold.
Naughty, very naughty but it gets better.
The word around the contract catering market is that the very same guilty party has been invited to the code meeting but has declined because they have their own code of conduct already in place. Quite.