CATERASSIST PROMOTES SAFETY & EXCELLENCE FOR THE 2006 KERRY RESTAURANT OF THE YEAR

Killarney headquartered company Caterassist are no strangers to the catering industry and hospitality industry awards. When the opportunity to become involved in the “2006 Kerry Restaurant of the Year Awards” competition came about, Caterassist CEO, Mr. Jerry O’Sullivan was delighted to lend a hand.“We are happy to become sponsors as we feel it is an area that we are involved in on a daily basis and we are supporters of the Feila Bia ethos and brand”, said Jerry.

Caterassist have kindly sponsored €1,000 worth of Professional Services to the winning restaurant to help them develop in areas of Training and Food Safety.Caterassist was established in 2001 and are currently market leaders in Ireland.

Caterassist specialize in Hospitality Recruitment, Catering Consultancy, Food Safety Training, HACCP Implementation and Food Safety Auditing. They are Specialists in the industry; no other company can compete professionally with them on this Service Level.Did you know that Caterassist are Irelands Hospitality Provider and is managed by the hands on Managing Director, Jerry O’Sullivan?

They don’t have shareholders yet as he says, but with an increasing client base and employees under his direction, one never knows! “We are headquartered in Kerry and also have regional offices in Galway, Waterford and Laois. Our Associate Offices are located in UK, France, Poland, Slovakia, Lithuania and we have also joined forces with American Culinary Colleges in Colorado in USA. We service clients from a one person operation to 5* Hotels, Group Hotels, International Hotels and Supermarket Groups!. All are clients are unique and no two operations are alike, just like a day Managing Caterassist. One day you are office based in any of the regional offices, another day perhaps in Donegal doing an audit, next day in Galway having a client meeting, another day in Waterford delivering HACCP Courses. He clocks up an average of 30,000 km per year and is constantly on the move. Caterassist is backed up the latest technology in communications, blackberry devices and their database can be accessed by Jerry in any location throughout the world through Satellite. We would not be able to provide a demanding and effective service without this technology to service their 700 clients nationwide and indeed the whole Caterassist Team,’’ says Jerry.

“Caterassist are Ireland’s Leading HACCP Food Safety Consultants, identifying all the risks from Farm to Fork through their Food Safety Management Systems and this complements this award as Feile Bia members, commitment to source quality assured food which is traceable from farm to fork.'' he continued. “Our Company motto ‘Be AHEAD of the rest…….Work with the BEST!’” he continued.

As sponsors of this year’s competition, Jerry says he will maintain the Feile Bia ethos in Kerry based restaurants and continue to develop and build contacts to develop this. The winners of the “2006 Kerry Restaurant of the Year Awards” will be announced at the launch of the 2006 Listowel Food Fair on Friday 24th November 2006, in the Listowel Arms Hotel, Listowel.

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