Lyn MacDonald joined Macdonald Hotels & Resorts early last year as group marketing director. Previously, Lyn worked as marketing and PR director at restaurant business Thai Leisure Group where restaurant bookings increased by 41% during her two-year tenure. She went on to work at G1 Group, overseeing website changes which led to a 31% increase in online bookings. Lyn talks … [Read more...]
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Five minutes with… Graham Squire
Graham Squire trained under John Williams and Martin Nail at Claridge's, working his way up to senior chef de partie before leaving in 2009 to work with Adam Byatt at his Clapham restaurant Trinity. It was at Trinity where Graham worked alongside Tom Sellers, who went on to open Restaurant Story. In 2014, Tom opened his first pub - The Lickfold Inn – near Petworth in West … [Read more...]
Five minutes with… Nina Chudasama
Nina Chudasama is CEO and co-founder of Hope & Glory Tea who supply whole leaf organic teas to the hospitality industry and sell direct through their website. Nina launched the company with husband Bharat two years ago after running a mobile coffee business and has seen it go from strength to strength since. She talks to Hospitality & Catering News about how she plans … [Read more...]
Five minutes with… Dan Kenny
Chef Dan Kenny took over the full F&B offering at The Artist Residence hotel in Brighton earlier this month having run its restaurant The Set for almost three years. The Midlands-born chef moved to Brighton eight years ago from Vietnam where he'd lived for several years, to work at The Gingerman restaurant. After five years at The Gingerman he left to launch The Set with … [Read more...]
Five minutes with… Nick Deverell-Smith
Nick Deverell-Smith left his job as head chef for the Soho House Group in 2014 to open his first business – The Churchill Arms in Paxford in the North Cotswolds. Nick's career as a chef started at Simpsons in Kenilworth, where he worked under Andreas Antona. He then went on to work at Mallory Court in Leamington Spa for two years where he won the Gordon Ramsay Scholarship, … [Read more...]