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234 Borneo Bulletin Yearbook 2020
2019wasasuccessfulyearforRoyalBruneiCatering
(RBC), showing year-on-year improvements for the
company.
General Manager of RBC Haji Jeff Hadiman bin
Dato Paduka Haji Danial commented, “We do so
many things – airline, health, retail catering as
well as the commercial food and beverage (F&B)
that you see in the restaurants as well. Overall,
business has been growing, but it’s always
contingent on our clients.”
Touching on healthcare, he said RBC has a very
good relationship with hospitals and that this
has been very stable and good to the company
as well.
“On the commercial side, we have done good
things in terms of festivals, celebrity chefs and
relaunching on certain aspects. That has been
successful to us as well.”
“Within RBC itself, we’ve really stabilised a lot
in terms of efficiencies. We’re working closer
with local farmers and procurement contracts, so
we’ve done a lot of things on that side, which I’m
very happy about.”
“In 2019 for the company, I can safely say that
we have definitely improved year-on-year and
it’s been a good year for us compared to previous
years,” he affirmed.
RBC has 640 staff members. “I’m proud of the
team here,” said the general manager. “We all
know we are striving towards one goal and that
is to help with the consolidated performance of
the company.”
He highlighted that RBC is Brunei’s premier
culinary food solutions company. “We are
trying to bring delightful and memorable
culinary experiences to all of Brunei. We’re
not just a caterer. We are the face of F&B in
the country.”
“People do take notice whenever we do things.
We position ourselves as the leading F&B
culinary entity in Brunei, and that has to trickle
down to the rest of the staff. We provide things
that nobody else can.”
“We are one of the few Hazard Analysis
and Critical Control Point (HACCP) compliant
kitchens in Brunei, and that is an advantage we
provide our clients,” he said. “We follow Halal
certification very strictly and we have to set an
example to the rest of the industry.”
The general manager also spoke on what’s next
for RBC. “By Q3 2020, RBC will have opened
its new facility – a new central kitchen facility
where we centralise all our kitchens, because we
have quite a few satellite kitchens, we’re going
to centralise our airline kitchen, our healthcare
kitchen and parts of our retail kitchen in one big
facility.”
The facility will be located at the Lambak Kanan
West Industrial Site. “We will be helping the
country in our own certain way. We will continue
providing the right kind of meals to airlines and
healthcare. We want to do more contractual
institutional food production.”
“We will be doubling our potential capacity in
Q3 so we can produce a lot more meals. We are
already doing 5,000 per day now, and we can
definitely do 10,000.”
“We will open the facility in 2020, get it up and
running properly and then start networking to try
looking for proper strategic partnerships for 2021
and 2022,” he added. “We’ll try to expand our
domestic market a little bit more but definitely
in three to five years we need to go overseas;
we need to bring the taste of modern Brunei
overseas.”