Given that we're all bankers now thanks to the Government's bail out of UK lenders to the tune of £400b, an investment bank related catering story seemed timely.
Last week the Association of Catering Excellence held its annual Ready Steady Cook Team challenge, a popular and fiercely contested competition amongst the contract catering industry.
Ultimate honours went to Charlton House who beat fourteen of their peers to the coverted title.
I say fourteen teams but there were actually fifteen on the billing.
Alas at the eleventh hour industry heavy-weight Aramark called to say that they simply couldn't spare the required two-strong team of chefs as they were mobilising their £10m Goldman Sachs contract.
Well fair play Aramark. It's rare that you hear about such a literal 'all-hands-to-the-pumps' approach to launching a new contract, and rarer still at a caterer with an annual turnover of £400m and more than 12,000 employees in the UK.
I'm sure Goldman Sachs will be very happy and it's a case of credit where it's due rather than credit crunch for Aramark.
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