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Archives for October 2012
Guest Experience drives referred hotel bookings
Of the 100’s of great hotels in London including all the 5 star options the thermometer of what’s hot and what’s not has to be Tripadvisor. By allowing guests to review their experience of stay Tripadvisor enables people to look and book hotels based on the recent feedback and rating of aggregated Guest Experience. Recently opened citizenM London Bankside is currently … [Read more...]
Leading restaurateurs’ share profit experiences
Share in the experience of market leading restaurants How do restaurants like TGI Friday’s increase profits without reducing their service and quality? Call Systems Technology seeks to share the experience gained from many years of working with successful restaurant brands such as T.G.I. Friday’s, Chiquitos, Frankie & Benny’s, Drake & Morgan, Jamie’s Italian, … [Read more...]
Smokers stopped from effecting hotel rooms
All hotels have rooms that all too occasionally are out of service until odour problems are dealt with. Smoking is an obvious one but there are many odours that linger and are difficult to remove without time and effort that is costly. Traditional odour removal consists of masking the odour with a less offensive odour, or removing the odour by using strong chemicals or … [Read more...]
Facebook Image of the Week
This week we have selected one of the best known and renowned restaurants in the UK, celebrated chef Raymond Blanc’s two Michelin-star restaurant, Le Manoir aux Quat’Saisons. The image in our opinion is a delight and sets the tone of the restaurant perfectly. It can be seen by clicking on the Facebook image below and if you are looking for your next work challenge there is … [Read more...]
Pop-Up Cafe installed, selling and making profits in 2 hours
The Pop-Up Cafe Pod from Equipline enables operators to maximise on planned events, but more importantly provides the means to react very rapidly to unexpected footfall opportunities. The Equip Line Pop-Up Café Pod system can be installed and operational in 2 hours or less and as because the appliances are all vent-less, no extraction is necessary opening up many locations … [Read more...]
Essential Christmas Crackers
With the festive season just around the corner, why not try some of our essential Christmas ranges. Turkey Stock Mix Packed with flavour and tasting like kitchen-made, all our stock mixes are gluten free, with low fat levels and are appropriately seasoned. Itproduces a superior yield of 50 litres per pot (only 16g needed to create a perfect litre of stock mix). No 1 … [Read more...]
Chef’s Recipe of the Week, by Alfred Prasad
This week’s Recipe of the Week is Dahl Makhni by Alfred Prasad and courtesy of Great British Chefs This traditional slow-cooked lentil dahl recipe from Alfred Prasad infuses ginger, garlic, ground spices, and tomatoes with an indulgent cream sauce to delicious effect. This is a … [Read more...]
Pop up for al fresco dining at Heathrow’s Terminal 5
More than 1.5 million passengers are expected to pass through Heathrow this half term, so the UK’s only hub airport has opened a pop-up indoor park in Terminal 5 to give passengers a relaxing space to de-stress in. The park looks out over the airfield and provides the perfect environment to enjoy some plane spotting through the terminal’s enormous windows. As well as the … [Read more...]
Nando’s moves firmly into profit
Nando's surged to a £14.7m pre-tax profit on revenues of £419.6m (up from £331m) in the UK for the year to 26 February 2012. This compares with a loss of £7m in the previous year, and shows a major transformation in performance. During the previous financial year, Nando’s had acquired a 70% holding in Gourmet Burger King Restaurants (formerly the Clapham House Group). … [Read more...]
London hotels strong post Olympics, but not provincials
The latest HotStats survey by TRI Hospitality Consulting reports that London hoteliers dispelled any rumours of a post-Olympic depression as occupancy levels rose by 3.1 percentage points to 89.4% in the months of September. Despite a year-on-year decline of 3.2% in average room rate from £141.82 to £137.26, the increase in occupancy levels resulted in a 0.6% increase in … [Read more...]
IoH at World Travel Market
The Institute of Hospitality’s hotel is again running a programme of seminars at this year’s World Travel Market, 5-8 November 2012 at ExCeL, London: listen to expert opinion from the high-calibre panellists, and then use the opportunity to ask questions during the interactive Q&A sessions. The Institute of Hospitality is pleased to be working closely with Reed … [Read more...]
Domino’s Pizza Box Office – pizza and a film on a sofa near you?
Domino's Pizza, the pizza delivery expert, has teamed up with Lionsgate UK, the leading independent filmed entertainment studio, to become the first UK company to deliver movies alongside pizza with its brand new Domino's Pizza Box Office service. Customers can now order their favourite pizza and a whole host of popular films all online via Domino's website. Simply choose … [Read more...]
Camerons Brewery to install social interactive TV in pub estate
Camerons Brewery and Challenger Technologies, the developer of in-venue social interactive TV, have agreed a partnership to place the market-leading ivuTV platform in the company’s pub estate. Camerons has become the first chain to put the technology into its pubs, and is confident that it will enhance the customer experience, thanks to its interactivity with live sports … [Read more...]
Historic Admiralty Arch to become landmark hotel
The Government has leased for 99 years London's landmark Admiralty Arch to Prime Investors Capital Limited (PIC). The deal will raise £60 million for taxpayers and marks the beginning of one of the largest and most exciting restoration projects in recent years. London-based PIC was selected following a competitive bid process. They have assembled a team of British specialist … [Read more...]