Awards

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Acorn winner 2007: Darren Neilan

Darren NeilanAfter graduating from catering college in Northern Ireland in 1998, Neilan moved to England and worked at the Dining Room in Reigate from 1999 to 2002, rising from waiter to assistant manager.
Posted: 10 May 2007 | 00:00

Acorn winner 2007: Neil Rawlings

Neil RawlingsCareer to date Rawlings began at the five-star Hilton Glasgow in 1999 as an apprentice chef. After a gap of one year, he returned to the hotel in 2003 as demi chef de partie.
Posted: 10 May 2007 | 00:00

Acorn winner 2007: Philip Rowden

Philip RowdenRowden joined Debenhams direct from university in 2003. Having started out as a management trainee in the West Midlands, he was soon given the role of deputy catering manager at the company's site in Dublin, progressing to catering manager in late 2004.
Posted: 10 May 2007 | 00:00

Acorn winner 2007: Emma Simpson

Age: 29 Position: Customer operations manager, Royal Bank of Scotland PLC Business School, Gogarburn, Edinburgh Career to date Simpson started out in 1996 as an assistant restaurant manager at the Thainstone House Hotel in Inverurie, Scotland. She then became a restaurant manager at Simpson's Hotel, Brasserie & Bar in Aberdeen, before switching to the role of conference and banqueting manager at the Copthorne Hotel, Aberdeen, in 1998. Then followed a four-year stay at the Westin Turnberry Resort, Ayrshire, where, following a fast-track management programme, she rose to regional account manager before taking a role as regional director of events at the St Martins Lane and the Sanderson in London for Ian Schrager Hotels. She then moved to Compass Managed Services, quickly progressing from events manager of her current site to her current role of customer operations manager. Why is she a winner? In her wide and varied career Simpson has demonstrated an apt
Posted: 10 May 2007 | 00:00

Acorn winner 2007: Ian Smith

Ian SmithSmith started with Whitbread in 1997, working part time at a Brewers Fayre in Motherwell while still a university student. Taking a trainee assistant manager role at the site two years later, he worked there for two-and-a-half years before being given an assistant manager's post at the Buchanan Gate in Glasgow.
Posted: 10 May 2007 | 00:00

Acorn winner 2007: Antony Tagliamonti

Antony TagliamontiTagliamonti has worked hard to progress from a 17-year-old delivery driver to the position he holds today. His big break came when, aged only 19, he bought into his first Domino's outlet in Woodford Green, London.
Posted: 10 May 2007 | 00:00

Acorn winner 2007: Michelle Waller

Michelle WallerWaller started out at the Headland Hotel in 1998 as a part-time room attendant, taking a full-time role as ground-floor cleaner and room attendant the following year.
Posted: 10 May 2007 | 00:00

Acorn winner 2007: Christopher Warwick

Christopher WarwickWarwick began his career with five years in the kitchens of Manchester restaurants the Brasserie St Pierre, the Reform Restaurant and the Lincoln Restaurant, where he moved into pastry work.
Posted: 10 May 2007 | 00:00

Acorn winner 2007: Astrid Wears-Taylor

Astrid Wears-TaylorWears-Taylor joined Hospitality Action in 2002 as a fundraising executive and was promoted to her current post the following year.
Posted: 10 May 2007 | 00:00

Acorn winner 2007: Tristan Welch

 Tristan WelchAfter a short spell at the Pink Geranium in Cambridgeshire in 1997, Welch moved to London. Following stints at City Rhodes, Aubergine and Le Gavroche, he left for Paris, spending two years at L'Arpège.
Posted: 10 May 2007 | 00:00

Acorn winner 2007: Kathy Wilton

Wilton began her career in 1998 as a training co-ordinator at a TGI Friday's outlet in Surrey, later joining the trainee management programme.
Posted: 10 May 2007 | 00:00

Tom Kitchin named Scottish Chef of the Year

Tom Kitchin, chef-proprietor of The Kitchin in Edinburgh, is the overall winner of this year’s Scottish Chef Awards.
Posted: 09 May 2007 | 16:39

Friday Wrap: A round-up of the week's hospitality news

Chris DruceSchool’s out for summer. School’s out for ever. So might as well throw away those Tesco school equipment vouchers I guess.
Posted: 27 April 2007 | 00:00

Champagne Ruinart UK Sommelier winner named

Red Carnation hotel group’s Nicolas Clerc has been named the winner of the Champagne Ruinart UK Sommelier of the year competition.
Posted: 25 April 2007 | 14:51

Star Inn wins Taste of England Award

Andrew Pern, chef-proprietor of the Star InnMichelin-starred restaurant the Star Inn at Harome, near Helmsley, in North Yorkshire, has won the Taste of England Award in this year’s Enjoy England Awards for Excellence.
Posted: 23 April 2007 | 11:39

RSCPA awards for welfare calls for entries

chicken in a fieldRestaurants and fast-food outlets using products that guarantee the welfare of animals are being asked to step forward and enter this year’s RSPCA Good Business Awards.
Posted: 19 April 2007 | 12:28

Academy of Culinary Arts announces Awards of Excellence achievers 2007

Nineteen young chefs, pasty chefs and waiters have achieved the Academy of Culinary Arts’ Annual Award of Excellence accolade. The long-running awards recognise the practical and theoretical knowledge of the country’s best young hospitality employees aged 20 to 26.
Posted: 18 April 2007 | 11:40

First Robbie Millar Scholarship winner named

Chris McClurg with Shirley MillarChris McClurg from SHU restaurant in Belfast has been named the first winner of the Robbie Millar Scholarship.
Posted: 13 April 2007 | 15:11

Armand Sablon: Roux Scholarship winner 2007

Armand SalbonArmand Sablon has matched his boss's achievement in being named the winner of the annual Roux Scholarship, following a tough cook-off at London's Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park hotel last week. Janet Harmer was there
Posted: 12 April 2007 | 00:00

Willie Pike given HIT Scotland's Industry Award 2007

Willie PikeWillie Pike, executive chef and head of craft training for Costley and Costley Hoteliers, has won this year’s Hospitality Industry Trust (HIT) Scotland Industry Award.
Posted: 10 April 2007 | 12:32

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