Click Here to see the 2009 CEDA Award Entry for this project.

Our warehouse and showroom facility remain at Bumpers Lane, Chester with the showroom benefiting from our departure with an increase in display items over a large floor space.

The works included detailed kitchen design and complete kitchen fit out, the dismantling, removal and re-installation of an existing walk-in chiller, the creation of a new wash-up area, and equipping and installing a dramatic new bar and dispense area for this extremely popular, award winning restaurant.

The clients are delighted with the work and gave invited guests a well-received kitchen tour on the official re-opening night.

The existing facilities had to be upgraded in order to cope with the significant increase in staff feeding requirements as well as banquets, functions, conferences and Peers' sessions and C&C was brought in to fit-out the main production kitchen, servery, bars and cold stores.

Three further listed building schemes have since been completed around Parliament Square. Catering arrangements in the House of Commons press room were upgraded with Consultant Winton Nightingale, foodservice facilities at Church House Conference Centre were refurbished to Tricon Foodservice consultants' specification and C&C also refurbished worn-out kitchens and replaced cold rooms at the exclusive Westminster school.

Cerys started with C&C on 4th July 1988 as Part-Time Showroom Manager and is now Manager of the Showroom and Warehouse at Bumpers Lane. She is married to John and has two grown up children, Ian and Jennifer.

Heidi started with C&C on 1st December 1988 as Receptionist/Office Clerk and is now Company Secretary. She is married to Steve and has one child, Alexander.

Pictured above with renowned chef, Marcus Wareing is Managing Director of C&C Catering Equipment, Peter Kitchin with Sales Director, Peter Farrell and Sales Manager, Paul Kitchin.

The show will be on from the 30-31st March, for more information on the show including directions and registration information please click here.  

The Prince of Wales visit to Eaton centred on the village of Aldford. He looked around a recently renovated office building where he unveiled a commemorative stone to mark the occasion of his visit and viewed pictures of recently completed conversions schemes which have included Green initiatives, C&C's Smithy Farm Buildings being one such example.

The remainder of his tour of the village included a stop at the Estates Maintenance yard where he met the directly employed maintenance and forestry teams and a walk through over to the village hall where a group of 60 people were gathered for tea. John Kitchin was one of the guests who sat on a table of those who run businesses out of buildings on the Eaton Estate.

The picture shows John Kitchin meeting HRH The Prince of Wales.

After spending most of his life in the catering industry, including a spell as Chairman of the HCA (Hospital Caterers Association), John was recognised for his contribution to the industry and remains a consultant to the family business he founded in 1981.

It was an emotional night at Carden Park Hotel on 24th April when the surprise presentation was made, with many a tear shed both on the stage and in the audience. John Kitchin received a standing ovation from the 200 plus guests which included his wife Enid, daughter-in-law Cathy, and three of his seven grandchildren Paul, Jessica and Matthew.

Peter described how lucky his father had been along the way, telling the story of how, during the war, his school was bombed one lunch time resulting in the loss of 38 children and six teachers. John's mother was unwell and had asked him to come home for lunch the day the attack took place.

“It was a wonderful moment for me,” Peter said. “I’m so lucky to have worked with him - and enjoyed every day - for the last 28 years.”

[*CEDA is the Catering Equipment Distributors Association.]

– David Greene President – European Operations with Peter Kitchin.

– David Greene, Peter Kitchin, CEO Kent Motes & CFO Martin Smith.

– New C&C recruit Matthew Kitchin with Peter Kitchin

– David Greene and Peter Kitchin

Having fully encorporated Caterquotes into the daily operations over the past year, C&C Catering Equipment Managing Director, Peter Kitchin commented:-

"They have a fantastic set up there...It really is a superb and very slick operation,
and it was a pleasure to meet David Greene, Marty Smith and the brains behind the original idea, Kent Motes."

For more information click the links below to go to the Caterquotes & Autoquotes websites.

http://www.caterquotes.co.uk/

http://www.aqnet.com/default.asp

The cheque amount of £10,000 was raised at the CEDA Conference 2009. Claire House was the chosen charity of Chairman Peter Kitchin at the Carden Park Hotel & Golf Resort where the Conference was held in April 2009.

Pictured From Left to Right:

Peter Kitchin (Managing Director of C&C Catering Equipment Ltd and CEDA Chairman), Cathy Kitchin, Nicky Campbell (Watchdog, Radio Five Live, The Big Questions), Abi Smith (Claire House) and Mark Moraghan (Holby City). 

For more information or to donate, please visit http://www.claire-house.org.uk/

Matthew begins as a CAD Trainee. He joins cousin (Peter's nephew and John's Grandson) Paul Kitchin who has worked in the business for four years and is Sales Manager.

"Matthew will train while employed by C&C", explains his father Peter, "And hopes to be involved in the new CEDA/FCSI Foundation Programme and ultimately in the CEDA/FCSI MSc."

"I hope I can have the kind of relationship my Father has enjoyed with my Grandfather over the last 28 years," said Matthew.

It has been quite a year for the Kitchin family. As CEDA National Chairman, Peter was proud to present the prestigious 2009 CEDA Industry Personality Award to his father. Previously a District Catering Manager in the National Health Service. John was later Conference Secretary for the 1969 Llandudno Conference and was appointed National Chairman of the Hospital Caterers Association for 1973/1974. He remains an Honorary member of the HCA and is now a Consultant to the family business he founded in 1981.

Pictured: Three Generations of Kitchin's at C&C Catering Equipment Ltd, (Left to Right): Founder John, Managing Director Peter, Matthew and Paul.

For more information on Foodservice Ventilation Consultants please visit their website and complete the contact form.

Pictured below from right of Steve Cole: - Matthew Kitchin, Andrew Pace, Paul Kitchin, Mark Roxburgh,
Cerys Hughes, Peter Farrell, John Mundy & Steve Brophy.
 

The Forest Pines Golf and Country Club Hotel was the venue of the CEDA Conference at which over 200 guests saw C&C presented this great award. This continues years of success for C&C at the CEDA Conference, having won awards in 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010.

The Outstanding Customer Service award was presented to C&C for the Customer Service given to The Connaught Hotel, Mayfair, London.

For more information regarding this award, please click here.

C&C also came Runner Up in the Cost Sector Large Project award for the recent project of Reed Smith Richards Butler. The kitchen fitout for this job was located on the 31st, 32nd and 33rd floors of the Broadgate Tower, London.

For more information regarding this award. Please visit the 'Awards' section of the website.

[CEDA is the Catering Equipment Distributors Association]

Pictures left to right is: Peter Kitchin (C&C Managing Director and CEDA Chairman), John Kitchin (C&C Founder) and Andrew Archer (Dewberry Redpoint, main sponsor of the CEDA Conference 2010)