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Tony Osborne is the cook in the Annexe Café, a busy community café which is part of the Annexe Healthy Living Centre in Partick, Glasgow. The café has held a healthyliving award since 2008 and in July took this commitment one step further and achieved the healthyliving award plus. According to Tony it’s the best kept secret in Partick!

  • Q. What were your main reasons for applying for the healthyliving award?
  • A. We applied for the healthyliving award as the building was a Healthy Living Centre and therefore we were keen to promote healthy activities and part of this was having a community café … naturally this led onto delivering healthy food for the local community at affordable prices.
  • Q. Has working towards and achieving the award been worthwhile?
  • A. Achieving the healthyliving award reinforced our healthy ideals and gave us the stamp of approval that what we were doing was recognised by a wider audience.
  • Q. What do you think the healthyliving award means to your customers?
  • A. The customers of the café know that the food is always healthy, so it’s nice to get the recognition of the healthyliving award plus on the wall now as a sign of our commitment to quality healthy food at affordable prices.

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issue 31:
Autumn 2014
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