{"id":151,"date":"2007-04-10T05:01:54","date_gmt":"2007-04-10T04:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/?p=151"},"modified":"2016-04-21T18:46:42","modified_gmt":"2016-04-21T17:46:42","slug":"providing-gf-food-in-hotels-and-conferences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/providing-gf-food-in-hotels-and-conferences\/","title":{"rendered":"Providing GF food in hotels and conferences?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reported in this month&#8217;s <strong>Fish &#038; Chips and Fast Food<\/strong> is a range of wheat- gluten and lactose-free breads, cakes and cereals aimed at the hotel and catering trade, produced by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deliciousalchemy.co.uk\">Delicious Alchemy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What a good idea!  Hotels, restaurants and caterers could offer a full service for the guests who are avoiding these ingredients by using this kind of product.  The products Delicious Alchemy offer include: bread rolls, pizza, burger buns, desserts and cakes and a breakfast cereal.  Sensibly, the breakfast cereal is presented in individual portions, and all the other items are frozen, and can be defrosted on demand.<\/p>\n<p>My gluten free daughter has a residential school trip coming up in June, and once again, I find myself explaining that no, it isn&#8217;t just wheat, and that <em>all<\/em> meals in the day are affected (<em>including<\/em> breakfast) and <em>all<\/em> snacks.  If the hotel had a stock of this kind of product we would all &#8211; me, my daughter, the school staff and the hotel staff &#8211; feel more confident.  As it is, I shall once again be packing up a box-ful of food for her.<\/p>\n<p>Delicious Alchemy point out 6 reasons why hotels\/caterers should provide gluten free options:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>1. Increase your restaurant spend<br \/>\n   2. Increase accommodation revenue<br \/>\n   3. Increase loyalty and repeat business<br \/>\n   4. Increase event business and repeat event business<br \/>\n   5. Win more government business<br \/>\n   6. Increase other custom too\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hooray for Delicious Alchemy &#8211; I hope they are very successful, and look forward to tasting their products at a hotel soon!<\/p>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reported in this month&#8217;s Fish &#038; Chips and Fast Food is a range of wheat- gluten and lactose-free breads, cakes and cereals aimed at the hotel and catering trade, produced by Delicious Alchemy. What a good idea! Hotels, restaurants and caterers could offer a full service for the guests who are avoiding these ingredients by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,168],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-151","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-living-gluten-free","7":"category-work","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}