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ALAN BRETT-PITT HOW DID YOU FIRST ENTER THE CATERING TRADE? As a youngster I wanted to be a professional footballer but that didn’t work out! I was eventually convinced to consider a role in sales when an opportunity for a trainee salesman came up and that’s how my journey in the catering trade began. Within five years I joined Booker – that was 25 years ago and I’ve never looked back! The meat industry is a passion for me. No other industry faces so many daily changes and challenges. No two days are the same, there’s always something new and different happening. I enjoy everything about it: the daily challenges, the changing trends and especially the people. The people in this trade are genuine, hard-working and so passionate.
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a real double-whammy of challenges and had a huge impact
There’s no such thing as a typical day! However, most days do
on the labour force globally. Trying to maintain availability has
tend to start out the same way with a daily 8.15am call with my
become a great hurdle but it’s one we successfully manage with
supply chain colleagues for a briefing. Meat is a short-life product
an unrelenting focus and fast, efficient action.
so it rolls every day. A whole host of things can impact on the
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supply chain. That first early morning call will quite often shape
ABOUTALAN BOOKER MEAT CATEGORY MANAGER
Alan Brett-Pitt started out in his young adult life dreaming of being a professional footballer, as so many people do. Unfortunately, that plan didn’t quite take off but after 30 years in the catering trade, the last 25 of which have been spent working for Booker, he’s certainly scored his fair share of goals and continues to win big with customers. He has worked his way up through the business over that quarter of a century and is now Meat Category Manager for Booker and uses his long experience to help and support his customers make the most of meat to drive footfall, sales and profits.
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