Restaurant Associates signs award-winning chef Jason Atherton

Restaurant Associates is partnering with top chef Jason Atherton to enhance its corporate and fine dining offer. Jason will work with Restaurant Associates to develop a new corporate dining offer which will be tailored to the needs of individual clients.

Press Release : Compass Group
Compass Group news team
Thursday 22 July 2010

This partnership will enable Restaurant Associates to continue its quest to provide the highest standards of corporate and fine dining to its clients spanning sectors such as leading banks, financial services companies, legal and professional firms, and advertising and media agencies. This exclusive relationship with Jason Atherton will complement Restaurant Associates' existing exclusive chef relationships with Albert Roux, Michel Roux Jr and Gary Rhodes.

Restaurant Associates also operates a number of leading public restaurants and specialises in delivering a world class food and beverage offering to hotels providing endless opportunities for this partnership with Jason Atherton to grow and develop.
 
Jason Atherton said: "This partnership with Restaurant Associates is a great opportunity for me to bring my style of cooking and the influences I have gained from around the globe to the corporate dining market. Restaurant Associates' commitment to providing the highest quality fresh ingredients that are fully traceable fits perfectly with my focus on food quality and provenance and I look forward to working in partnership with the team  to help create a modern, fresh approach for its customers and clients."

Nick Potter, Managing Director, Restaurant Associates said: "Restaurant Associates has a long-standing reputation for delivering only the very best through its high quality food, exceptional people and excellent service and we believe Jason's experience and approach to dining is the perfect match. As a business we are constantly evolving to meet the needs and expectations of our market-leading portfolio of prestigious high-profile clients. Jason will play a key role in helping us to continue to develop and improve our corporate and public facing dining offers and we are thrilled to have him on board."

Jason has had an exceptional career to date and has recently opened his first independent restaurant, Table No 1 by Jason Atherton at the Waterhouse at South Bund hotel in Shanghai.  This will be closely followed by the opening of his second independent venture later this year. Prior to this, Atherton was chef patron at Michelin-starred restaurant Maze and was the first British chef to complete a stage at the Ferran Adria?s three-Michelin-starred El Bulli restaurant.

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For more information:
Liz Bastone, Compass Group UK & Ireland
Tel: 01895 554426
Mob: 07500 607965
Email: liz.bastone@compass-group.co.uk

Notes to editors: About Restaurant Associates
Restaurant Associates offers the highest quality of catering and support services to all its clients. Premium services include fine dining, conferencing and meeting room service, functions and events and front of house operations.
 
Restaurant Associates is part of Compass Group, the world's leading foodservice company. We specialise in providing food, vending and related services on our clients' premises and we generated annual revenues of over £13.4 billion in the year to 30 September 2009. The company operates across the following core sectors of Business & Industry, Defence, Offshore & Remote Site, Healthcare, Education, Sports & Leisure and Vending with an established brand portfolio.

For more information visit:

www.restaurantassociates.co.uk 
www.compass-group.co.uk