Easter 2013 opening times

With Easter approaching we thought we would give you another reminder of our trading days.
We will be open up to and including Thursday the 28th of March, closed on Good Friday, the 29th and then we will reopen on Saturday, the 30th. We will then be closed on Easter Sunday, the 31st and Easter Monday, the 1st of April. Normal service will resume on Tuesday 2nd of April. Happy Easter!

Blood Oranges

Blood Oranges closeup, cut in half

This years first blood oranges, but not yet as bloody as we like them

Christmas 2012 opening times

Christmas 2012 opening times banner

With Christmas approaching fast we thought we would give you another reminder of our trading days over the festive season.

We will be open up to and including Christmas Eve (Monday, 24th December) and and then reopen with a *limited service on Thursday, 27th of December. A full service will resume on Friday 28th December up to and including New Years Eve (Monday, 31st December). We will then close on New Years Day (Tuesday, 1st January) and reopen on Wednesday 2nd January.

The reason for the limited service on Thursday, 27th December is that due to Christmas we are unable to source any fresh produce until Friday. All produce therefore sold on the Thursday will be pre Christmas stock! So if you have the storage capacity we strongly advise you to order all you need for the long weekend for a Christmas eve delivery.

Items that we may be short of on Thursday, 27th of December are as follows: washed mixed salads, rugola and other baby leaves, mushrooms and most of the berry fruit. We will though have plenty stock of most other things that last longer like potatoes, onions, carrots, oranges etc. We will also have most of our dairy lines available too.

We hope this hasn’t been too confusing and may we take this opportunity to thank you all for your custom over the last year and wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year…

Micro herbs

micro cress on wooden board

We have reduced our prices across the range by 18% !!!

Reason for inflation in potato prices

closeup of potatoes

Potato prices have increased heavily in the past few weeks.
The reason for, this is when the old season came to an end prices were already high due to availability, which is normal for this time of year.
As new crops were starting to be lifted growers found that all crops were showing a 20 – 30% loss in yields, this meant that the farm costs had to increase to make up for the loss of crop.
But also a knock on effect was that major supermarkets are offering big money on the farms to ensure their supply. 
With a reduction of yields from the crops, packers and suppliers are starting to seek supplies from abroad.
The bad news is that the potato prices and will still continue to rise as the season continues. They will stay like this until July 2013.
These huge losses in crop yields are purely down to the weather. Planting commenced in March with good weather but the was followed by up to 14 weeks of constant high levels of rain which caused the crops to die off early hence giving poor yields in the ground.
Sadly this, cannot be helped and will be with us all season.

cobnuts

fresh cobnuts in boxes


fresh cobnuts in stock now!

Deliveries during London Olympics 2012

Dear Customer
As you are no doubt aware, London will be hosting the worlds largest sporting event in 2012 – The Olympic and Paralympic games. This takes place from 27th July – 9th September. London will be very busy and it will look and feel very different with live sites and festivals taking place all over the city. Staging the games is the largest logistical exercise that any country can undertake.
There will be 25 Olympic/Paralympics venues in and around London with 8.8 million tickets sold to watch the events, as well as free giant screens to view in places like Hyde Park, where up to an additional 50,000 people could watch. There will be extra traffic restrictions on many roads in London especially the O.R.N (Olympic Road Network). Which will have a severe impact on deliveries and servicing to many hotels, restaurants and catering establishments.
To make it possible to deliver we have been told that we will have to:

  • Deliver to customers between midnight and 6 am
  • Have all orders in by 9 pm

We at Eurofrutta aim to provide the very best of service throughout this very busy time, helping your business run smoothly and successfully. We have already been active with local councils in trialling quiet night time deliveries within Central London. This is a code of practice that provides generic best practice in minimising noise from delivery activity throughout the night. While we are being active in looking to provide you with the best of service, we will need to know from yourselves what plans you have in place for changes to your delivery patterns.(i.e. will you be taking deliveries in earlier or staying open later to accept deliveries or providing us with keys to premises).
Michael (07980 741 635) will be your point of contact to discuss your delivery and servicing arrangements during the Olympics.
Yours sincerely,
Eurofrutta Ltd.