The Gold Service Scholarship has announced the names of the 24 Regional Finalists for the 2016 Gold Service Scholarship competition.
The top 24 entrants have been invited to attend the Regional Final taking place on Monday, 30 November at the Langham Hotel. The Regional Finalists will be required to complete a series of service tasks and will be judged by a panel of leading industry professionals.
20 of the Regional Finalists have been selected from over 70 applicants to thisyear’s competition. They will join the three runners up from last year’s competition along with the winner of the 2015 Royal Academy of Culinary Arts’ (RACA) Awards of Excellence, who all get automatic entry to the Regional Finals.
This year’s Regional Finalists
- Paula Sobusiak – The CapitalHotel
- Christoph Schrottenbaum – Dinner by HestonBlumenthal
- Tom Noller – SexyFish
- Andreea Albert – Morgans Hotel Group – MondrianLondon
- Amelia Thornhill – The King’s Head,Hampshire
- Jennifer Santner – SkyGarden
- Nico Ante – Bistro Hotel du Vin,Birmingham
- Kate Turton – The Latymer, Pennyhill Park,Surrey
- James Parums – BuckinghamPalace
- Charlie Lee – Fera atClaridge’s
- Lukas Andr – Sexy Fish,London
- Thomas Borghi – TheRitz
- Sophia Warland – RAFOdiham
- Travis Powell – Langshott Manor,Horley
- Stephanie Beresforde – Scott’sRestaurant
- Robin Roux – Hotel du Vin & Bistro,Birmingham
- Judit Balonka – The Vineyard at Stockcross,Newbury
- Lewis Dixon – Northcote Manor,Langho
- Innes Haywood – L’Enclume,Cumbria
- Gabriela Murea – Opus Restaurant,Birmingham
- Dimitar Tanev – Mr Coopers House and Garden, Q Hotels Services Ltd, Manchester
- Nicholas Winfield – Le Manoir aux Quat’ Saisons,Oxford
Alastair Storey, Chairman of the Trustees and Chairman of BaxterStorey, said: “We have had a record number of entrants to this year’s competition, with entries from across the hospitality industry from those working in hotels, restaurants, pubs, foodservice and the Armed Forces. We are looking forward to the next stage of the competition and seeing the Regional Finalists take part in the challenges at the end of this month.”
Now in its fourth year, The Gold Service Scholarship is an annual competition for young, front of house professionals working in the hospitality industry. The winner will receive a bespoke prize package with a range of mentoring opportunities,travel and placements from a group of the most senior service professionals in the world.
This year’s competition launched in September 2015 and will finish in February 2016. After the Regional Final, the National Final is then held at the Connaught Hotel and the 2016 winner will be announced in February 2016 at the prestigious awards ceremony to be held at Claridge’s.
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