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Water retailers to compete for restaurants contract

Successful firm to supply restaurants including Bella Italia, Café Rouge and La Tasca.

One of the UK’s largest restaurant companies, the Casual Dining Group (CDG), is offering contracts to supply its network of 300 eateries with water and wastewater services.

CDG employs more than 10,000 people around the country and its brands include Bella Italia, La Tasca, Café Rouge and Las Iguanas.

“We are delighted to have been chosen by CDG to assist with its water procurement. Already a highly successful and sizeable enterprise, we are working to optimise water cost and consumption savings whilst supporting the company’s ambitious expansion plans through identifying further opportunities to build best practice water management into its operations,” said Waterscan’s Rebecca Gale.

“We now seek a water retailer to work with us on this exciting contract for one of the UK’s fastest growing operations,” she added.

The competitive tendering process will start this month (August) and will be managed by Waterscan, which is assisting CDG with its water strategy.

“We watched the development of the open water market with interest and decided to wait for the market to settle down so we could make an informed decision on our water supply options,” said Paul Boyce of Prestige Purchasing, which works on behalf of CDG.

“Our main goal is to identify and take advantage of cost saving opportunities and streamline internal administration practices,” he continued.