As the sun decided to show itself this weekend I was raring to get out and go off the beaten track and ended up in two very different establishments… The first was 7 Hotel & Diner which is a 1950’s inspired American Diner complete with classic cars parked outside which can be found on the […]
This afternoon I was invited to the National Finals for the FutureChef 2013 competition which is organised by Springboard and hosted at Westminster Kingsway College with the proceedings carried out by celebrity Chef Brain Turner, who is also the FutureChef Chairman. This year there were 8,768 competitors that took part, made up of 12-16 […]
Today I attended the Institute of Hospitality’s Passion 4 Hospitality Student Conference which was held at the Victory Services Club. There was a full line up of industry speakers – including myself. Peter Ducker, Chief Executive of the Institute of Hospitality opened the conference and then Sally Prescott from “Zest For Life” gave an inspirational […]
On Friday 25th January 2013 I was a guest at the Charity Fund Raising dinner for Hospitality Action at the wonderful Pennyhill Park in Surrey. This evening was organised by Danny Pecorelli and Philip Newman-Hall, and this was no ordinary charity dinner as we were served by some of the most esteemed Hoteliers from across […]
As we welcome in the New Year this is the time that goals are set with great intentions to run and manage an ever more successful business. Although one thing that often gets overlooked is the all important question of where are we now? Once that has been established then we can see where improvements […]
