DLA serves up lunch to fit the brief

The long-held view that City law firms provide comprehensive in-house facilities with the intention of ensuring that staff have fewer reasons to leave the office sprung to mind when we received word from business caterer Baxter and Platts about its success at DLA.

The company recently won a 500,000-a-year contract to cater for almost 700 staff plus visitors at DLA's City offices.

Takings have doubled in the staff cafe bar, we are told, and, in a double-whammy of good news for DLA, the subsidy has been reduced for the first time in 18 months.

And, as this picture of solicitor Julian Homerstone, head chef Chris Merdon and cafe manager Wayne Hancock shows, those who choose the bar for lunch also have court forms and Halsburys on hand for some light reading.

All in all, the perfect dining experience.