On Mon, 22 Aug 2005 23:11:00 +0100, Cheeky wrote:

They were saying that no other airline caterers have the capacity to
take on BA if GG was to vanish. I guess someone will buy the
operation, renegotiate the contract with BA and either re-employ the
staff on less £ or get cheaper staff in. Sad but likely...

It is being rumoured that BA might buy it back themselves. I would be
very interested to see what happens then...

Do GG have anything to do with RailGourmet, out of interest? If not,
I wonder how such similar names ended up existing?

Neil

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(Neil Williams) wrote:

Do GG have anything to do with RailGourmet, out of interest? If not,
I wonder how such similar names ended up existing?

The same thought passed through my mind as I walked through King's
Cross last week.

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Neil Williams wrote:
On Mon, 22 Aug 2005 23:11:00 +0100, Cheeky wrote:

They were saying that no other airline caterers have the capacity to
take on BA if GG was to vanish. I guess someone will buy the
operation, renegotiate the contract with BA and either re-employ the
staff on less £ or get cheaper staff in. Sad but likely...

It is being rumoured that BA might buy it back themselves. I would be
very interested to see what happens then...

Do GG have anything to do with RailGourmet, out of interest? If not,
I wonder how such similar names ended up existing?

Neil

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I'm not a betting person but I'll lay odds that BA wont have anything
to do with taking the catering back in house. In fact if I was in
charge of BA I would be looking to outsource baggage handling.

Kevin

to do with taking the catering back in house. In fact if I was in
charge of BA I would be looking to outsource baggage handling.

Thank god you're not in charge. Just what we need these days is
some cut-costs-to-the-bone fly by night company running baggage
handling with security being tossed out the window in the name of
profits and baggage being treated even worse than it is now by
some just off the boat immigrants on minimum wage.

B2003

Neil Williams wrote:

Do GG have anything to do with RailGourmet, out of interest? If not,
I wonder how such similar names ended up existing?

Why do you think those names are any more similar than, say, British
Railways, British Airways and British Waterways? Or C&A and B&Q? Or the
AA and the FA?

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On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 11:02:45 GMT, Chris Tolley

Why do you think those names are any more similar than, say, British
Railways, British Airways and British Waterways? Or C&A and B&Q? Or the
AA and the FA?

Because...

1. Their logos use similar colours, as I recall.
2. "xx Gourmet" strikes me as a less generic, and more trademarkable,
brand compared with "British" something or something "Association".
That said, all of the "British" organisations you note once were (or
in the latter case still are) nationalised and therefore were
connected.

Neil

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On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 17:45:22 GMT, (Neil
Williams) wrote:

On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 11:02:45 GMT, Chris Tolley

Why do you think those names are any more similar than, say, British
Railways, British Airways and British Waterways? Or C&A and B&Q? Or the
AA and the FA?

Because...

1. Their logos use similar colours, as I recall.
2. "xx Gourmet" strikes me as a less generic, and more trademarkable,
brand compared with "British" something or something "Association".
That said, all of the "British" organisations you note once were (or
in the latter case still are) nationalised and therefore were
connected.

Neil

It's part of Compass Group
(http://www.railgourmet.com/01-about/ABOUT_00.asp)

Dunno whether it was part of the same group in the past, though.

Neil Williams wrote:

Do GG have anything to do with RailGourmet, out of interest? If not,
I wonder how such similar names ended up existing?

I had the same thought and, as usual, Google had the explanation. They
are two separate companies, but they have a common ancestry in the
Swissair group.

Rail Gourmet are part of Compass Group, the world's largest catering
organisation. Compass bought Rail Gourmet in 2001 from SAirLines AG, a
subsidiary of Swissair's SAir Group.

Gate Gourmet was sold by SAir Group to Texas Pacific Group in 2002.

I don't think that any aspect of the present dispute at GG reflects on
RG at all. (Unless of course you take the view that they're both big
nasty global corporations and therefore A Bad Thing [TM]. But then the
Competition Commission seems happy with Rail Gourmet - see
http://www.competition-commission.org.uk/rep_pub/reports/2002/470compass.htm.)
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On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 23:07:50 +0000 (UTC), Joyce Whitchurch
wrote:

I had the same thought and, as usual, Google had the explanation. They
are two separate companies, but they have a common ancestry in the
Swissair group.

Ah, I thought there might have been something, with the common colour
scheme in their logos and the similar names. Thanks.

Neil

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