With the start of the traditional UK holiday period, we ask "When did you last have a vacation?"
Probably not the answer you want to hear, but I had a holiday just two weeks ago. I went for the sun in Zante, which will be my main break of the year. I'll probably plan a weekend off around Christmas as well. It's one of the advantages of a support role based at head office.
Tom Legg, college liaison manager, Whitbread Restaurants
I've just got back from three weeks in the South of France and my business partner is going to Italy next week for three weeks. There are two of us and we have good managers, so we're never short of holidays - we'd go mad if we didn't go.
Julian Rosser, operations director for Branca restaurant, Oxford
I went to Hawaii for three weeks last September. I went on a 10-day training course while there. It's good to do two things and, as my wife came along on the course, there wasn't a problem.
Tim Brown, director of coaching and training at staff retention specialist Learnpurple
I took a week's break to the Isle of Eriska on the west coast of Scotland in June. I went up there with my son and we had a great time. The sunsets there are awesome. We stayed at the hotel owned by Beppo Buchanan-Smith, who used to be a columnist in Caterer.
David Orr, MD of City Inns
I had a week in Portugal at the beginning of May and we're taking a week in France in mid-August. You can't be effective if you keep plugging away at the same routine. As a family man, I think a work-life balance is sacrosanct.
Tim Price, director of Pride Catering Partnershipyears, has