Musgrave Foodservices has announced it has signed a €30m three-year contract with Eurest Ireland, which provides catering services to the business, industrial and state sectors.

Compass Group, the world’s largest food-service organisation, has announced its preliminary results for the year ending September 30, 2004.

The traditional Irish lunch "hour" is disappearing fast with the average lunchbreak for workers in the Republic of Ireland just 35 minutes long, a survey on lunchtime eating in the workplace has revealed today.

The Compass Group, the world’s largest catering firm, has reported strong growth in the six months to the end of March this year.

Food service group Eurest has landed the contract to provide on-site food and catering services at Dublin Zoo, in a deal worth €10m over five years.

Business caterer Eurest has won the contract to provide catering services to Halifax Insurance Ireland, in an annual deal worth €300,000.

Catering giant Compass Group has issued an upbeat trading statement ahead of today's AGM, saying that business in the first four months of the current year have been in line with expectations.

THOUSANDS of workers are skipping the sandwich and making lunchtime love, according to a survey.