With a 30,000 bottle cellar replete with wines from around the globe, The Vineyard is delighted to have been awarded two highly sought after wine awards last week, one from the Wine Spectator and the second from The World of Fine Wine. 2014 Best of Excellence Award The Wine Spectator awarded The Vineyard with a 2014 Best of Excellence Award, which gives special … [Read more...]
Chartwells chalks up £23.5m contract at Bournemouth University
Chartwells, Compass Group UK & Ireland’s specialist provider of catering to schools, academies, colleges and universities, has won a new 10 year contract at Bournemouth University (BU). The new deal, starting in September 2014 and worth an expected £23.5 million in total, will see Chartwells provide food and hospitality services to over 18,000 students and 1,700 staff at … [Read more...]
Hoteliers – apply the right technology, and the guests will follow
By Richard Cottrell, sales and marketing director, Vista Retail Support The hottest technology innovations in hospitality are those which make it faster, easier and more convenient for customers to get exactly what they want, when they want it, with minimal fuss. The big hotel chains have invested in mobile phone apps, for example, to make the booking process as easy and … [Read more...]
Giggs and Neville Marketing Director scoops Hospitality Award
Manchester’s business community has voted for Louise Kemp, marketing director for Ryan Giggs and Gary Neville’s hospitality business, GG Hospitality, as the best female leader in the Hospitality & Service Sector industry, at the city’s first annual Women in Business awards, organised by Downtown Manchester In Business. Louise is currently managing the new Hotel Football … [Read more...]
London tops global list of World’s Best Restaurants
The UK boasts a total of 12 restaurants in the Elite 100 Restaurants 2014, with eight of these based in London: The Ledbury (9), Dinner by Heston Blumenthal (23), Restaurant Gordon Ramsay (24), Alain Ducasse at the Dorchester (54), Le Gavroche (74), Amaya (76), Nobu (96) and Zuma (99). Meanwhile outside the capital, Heston Blumenthal’s The Fat Duck (3) in Berkshire makes it … [Read more...]