Biscuits at the Beeb

Where would we be without the BBC? Well a few years ago a lot better off as licence-fee payers.

Kitchen Rat hears from a former manager that when he took on his role around the start of the decade staff at the Beeb were spending an eye watering £300,000 a year on biscuits at meetings through their corporate hospitality budget.

Although new rules on Hob-Nobbing were introduced to address this, no doubt much to the disappointment of then caterer Eurest, veteran broadcaster John Humphrys hit the nail on the head for most large organisations when he retorted "it's not the biscuits we should ban but the meetings".

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