A Byte from Blue Apple Dec-04
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A CHRISTMAS BYTE FROM BLUE APPLE
It's Christmas time and the leaves of the Blue Apple tree maybe bare, but the tree's fruits are now being enjoyed by all. This time of year is busy for all of us and especially so for the Blue Apple kitchen "elves" busy preparing sumptuous feasts for our clients' Christmas lunches. Nearly all of our unit Christmas lunches bar one, have taken place this week. Ruston and Brian have managed to see them all; how they "force" themselves to attend as many as three lunches in one day we will never know! A great big thank you to our catering teams who make it happen. The quality of food and service has been exceptional. We would especially like to commend Glen Coldwell and the Blue Apple team at Schering Plough, Harefield who successfully took on the challenge of supplying a four course Christmas dinner for approx 200 covers in a marquee, one evening last week! It's the little things that count to make our clients' Christmas lunches that bit special and one of the highlights that Ruston recounted from a visit to Blockbuster Video's HQ last week was sampling Gill Bartlett's "sublime" homemade onion marmalade that accompanied their Christmas meal. Wishing all our customers, clients and staff a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Brian and Ruston
FAIRTRADE AWARD AT KUONI
A great achievement at Kuoni Travel in Dorking during the summer that was overlooked by a A Byte" needs to be rectified. Therefore, a big thank you goes to Lyn Freeman Blue Apple's manager at Café Alfredo who was awarded a certificate during a ceremony at Dorking Town Hall to recognise her contribution towards making Dorking the first Fairtrade town in Surrey. Well done to Lyn, Mary and Kate.
FREE! - AN APPLE A DAY
To help those of us trying to negate the excesses of Christmas and honour their New Year's resolutions to get slimmer and eat healthier, Blue Apple launched the "Apple a Day" promotion in December to get ahead of the game. The crunch is that Blue apple is supplying one box of free apples per month to each unit! This is to help raise interest and kick start the promotion. This will be a year long campaign and the apple variety will be changed each month. People will have no excuse for not contributing towards their RDA of five portions of fruit and veg. So go bite a Braeburn or crunch on a Cox!