London Chef highlights the importance of having respect for suppliers

24 Jun 2010

Chef Mark Read has stressed the importance of a healthy relationship with suppliers for both the retail and foodservice sectors. The executive chef of the Awana and Mangotree restaurants, who believes that good public relations with suppliers is the only way to achieve consistency, stated that "you only get something from your suppliers if you treat them with the same respect that they treat you". He sees this as the biggest challenge in a commercial kitchen and identifies that the respect must also extend to staff and everybody else. The London chef gave four Malaysian cookery demonstrations last week at Taste of London in Regent's Park.