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Finally, we have a winner for the Apprentice role - and she works in hospitality.

Restaurateur Yasmina Siadatan, owner of Mya Lacarte restaurant in Caversham, Reading, beat favourite Kate Walsh for the top job.

She strikes a blow for catering - despite the derogatory comments about the profession last week and the quality of her winning product.

In a final which asked the two contestants to produce a box of chocolates - because real life is like that - Yasmina triumphed with her cheaper, more mass market version.

Kate's were, everyone concurred, delicious and in fact, during filming for the promotion of Yasmina's chocolate brand, one of the models spat out a chocolate after a shoot.

It brings to mind one of the earliest tasks, when she was in charge of a contract catering task in which her food was likewise of very poor quality.

Strange for someone who runs a restaurant.

Sir Alan's other concern with Yasmina was that she'd find it hard moving from being self-employed to working for someone else - "two years in from running my own business I was set up for life," he said.

"Also will I be putting 20 people out of work?"

But Yasmina said that her brother was now taking over the running of the restaurant, and reiterated that she definitely wanted to work for him.

And, thanks to Sir Alan going on his "gut instinct", she will be now.

It's Wednesday night and what does that mean? Yes, The Apprentice is back on our TV screens. And tonight's episode sees the young contestants faced with a particularly interesting challenge: catering.

Sir Alan Sugar will challenge both the male and female teams to set up a catering service for busy professionals in the City. They'll be pitching for lunchtime business and creating menus for a canapé reception, and as well as sourcing the ingredients, they must make, deliver and serve all the food themselves.

"A recipe for disaster," I hear you say? Oh yes!

One of the catering companies involved in the challenge was Red Snapper Events, which lent its kitchens to the male team. Managing director Damian Clarkson told Kitchen Rat "they were hopeless".

"One of their ideas was to serve a peanut butter sandwich on brown bread in a brown box. That's way too much brown and miles off what anyone wants," he said.

Kitchen Rat tried to find out who hosted the girls team, which no doubt had some equally insightful ideas, but The Apprentice PR declined to give out their details.

"Thanks for your request, but I'm afraid we do not give out this sort of information," she said.

It is MI5 stuff so if you know anything, please get in touch. We won't give you up, promise.

Hospitality hopefuls escape the boardroom in the first Apprentice