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Christine Puttick, Consultant

A graduate of the University of Surrey, Christine Puttick’s professional career began with the largest local authority in the UK. Later, she established thriving retail sales outlets for two major charities.

Christine has worked as section manager for one of the largest, quality, high street retailers. During this time, she was responsible for building the highest turnover to date for the retail catering operation. Under her management, it was recognised as a ‘centre of excellence’ and became a training site for the group’s under-performing operations.

Christine has considerable expertise on HACCP, legal compliance and licensing, as well as issues relating to recruitment and customer service. She is a member of the Institute of Hospitality and a personal licence holder.

Christine's projects include:

• Assistance to a number of local authorities with tendering exercises, including preparation of tender documentation and evaluation of pre-tender and tender submissions.
• Quality and health and safety review of staff catering provision for the UK offices of an international leisure organisation.
• Review of operational standards of hospitality provision for a major firm of solicitors in the City of London.
• Assistance with review of catering provision and implementation of new strategy for a group of residential care homes, including tendering of food and equipment supply.
• Negotiation with incumbent contractor and tendering of a commercial secondary school contract for a new facility.
• Audit and verification from original source material of a contractor's monthly trading account.
• Review of visitor catering services for a local authority.
• Advice to a national autism training centre on catering provision for children and staff, including hospitality.
• Monitoring of multi-site staff catering and hospitality for a leading financial services provider.
• Operational monitoring of multi-site catering services for a London university.
• Operational and financial review of catering services at a high security hospital.
• Provision of a bespoke training course on food hygiene.
• Design and delivery of training on managing contract caterers.
• Review and option appraisal of patient and staff catering services at two acute hospitals.