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| Birmingham Best Bar None Awards 2012 Thursday 1st November 2012 Birmingham Best Bar None Awards CONGRATULATIONS! MARCHE Members
Best Hotel Bar Category
Novotel City Centre
Best Student Bar
Joe's Bar, University of Birmingham
We hope you all had a fantastic night!
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Thursday, 8 November 2012
Best Bar None Awards - MARCHE Winners
Wednesday, 3 October 2012
AA Hospitality Awards - Highlighting MARCHE Members Winners
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| Photo via BHA Website |
The AA Hospitality Awards 2012 - 2013 were announced on 25th September. We are delighted that two MARCHE Members are part of winning Groups.
AA Hotel Group of the Year (sponsored by D-ENERGi)
Hand Picked Hotels
(MARCHE Member New Hall Hotel)
Eco Hotel Group of the Year (sponsored by British Gas Business)
MacDonald Hotels & Resorts
MARCHE Member MacDonald Burlington Hotel
Our warmest congratulations to New Hall & MacDonald Burlington!
Friday, 27 July 2012
BCF & MARCHE Golf Day
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| All photos are by Steve Love |
Here is a report of the day from Chris Hudson of BCF
On Tuesday 24th
July the British Culinary Federation and MARCHE teamed up, and
co-hosted this year’s event, which took place at the prestigious
Marriott Forest of Arden Golf and Country Club.
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| Except this one, which is from the hotel's website |
A complete field of 80
members and guests took on the challenge of the Arden Championship
course, in what turned out to be so far, one of the hottest days of
the Year!!
The format of the day
was registration from 8.30am with coffee, tea and bacon rolls on
arrival and then a “shotgun” start at 10.00am from each of the 18
holes around the course. The BCF had also invited a Craft Guild of
Chefs team, to compete in the Mike Sullivan Trophy (formally; The
Concorde Trophy) which is held annually at their respective Golf
Days.
The golf was followed
by the much needed refreshments at the 19th hole, as there
was a definite “glow” amongst the players, who had endured the
heat on the course. An enjoyable two course buffet meal was then
served, prior to the prize presentation, which was given by Mark
Blake (MARCHE, Executive Council member) and assisted by Hilary Hall
(MARCHE, Chief Executive).
The BCF and MARCHE
would like to say a sincere thank you to, Major International, Gram,
and Aubrey Allen for their generous sponsorship on the day. Also, to
everyone who donated raffle prizes, and to the people who organised
and supported the event, in order to make the day such a great
success.
Team Prizes:
1st Gary
Hunter, Terry Tinton, Ash Spencer, Geoff Booth. (Westminster
Kingsway College)
2nd Tony
Cheal, Ian Perkes, Paul Carr, Dan Hendriksen. (The Arden Hotel)
3rd Luke
Tipping, George Hicks, Steve Belcher, Harry Kattou. (Simpsons
Restaurant)
The Mike Sullivan
Trophy:
The British Culinary
Federation
Longest Drive:
3rd Gary
Bloxham
12th Daniel
Parsons
Nearest the Pin:
8th Steve
Belcher
15th Matthew
Taylor
Here are the photos of some of the MARCHE members teams ~ in glorious technicolour!
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| The Abbey Hotel & Golf Club Simon Clements, Dan Parson, James Robert & Adam Small |
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| Lea Marston Hotel John Blake, Mark Blake, Richard Blake & John Whale |
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| Simpsons Restaurant Matt Cheal, Mike Coldicott, Stassi Kayiatou & Chris Satchwell |
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| RBS David Growcott, Rob MacLaren, Ian Morgan & Glenn Williamson |
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| Simpsons Restaurant Steve Belcher, George Hicks, Harry Kattou & Luke Tipping |
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| Redcliffe Catering Brian Robbins, Matt Taylor, Simon Tupper & John Turnbull |
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| The Abbey Hotel and Golf Course Steve Dipple, John Hindson, Tom Kirkham & Nick Stanton |
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| MacDonald Burlington Hotel, Electrolux & Fracino Mark Dimenn, Derek McDonagh, John McGinnell & Doug Walker |
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| Marketing Birmingham, Hobart & Steelite David Grundy, Ivor Marsh, Graham Robinson & Nigel Tolley |
All photos are provided by Steve Love
Friday, 3 February 2012
Preliminary Rounds - Done!
Well folks - in a very short time, all the Preliminary Rounds for the MARCHE Awards for Excellence 2012 will have been completed (our Food Service Assistants are just finishing off as I type!)
The results are emailed to the venue Awards Coordinators, by the date given in the Awards Calendar. Just a couple are still to come and these will be with you as soon as possible.
In the meantime, here's a little peak at what the preliminary round competitions look like to us.
Due to a slight administrative error (we left the camera in the office *ahem*) we haven't got any photos of all the lovely Receptionists taking part in their preliminary round, so you will have to take our word for it that they were all turned out immaculately and entered into their allocated tasks with enthusiasm and energy.
Thank you Jurys Inn Birmingham for hosting us on Tuesday.
And today its the turn of the Food Service Assistant candidates.
The results are emailed to the venue Awards Coordinators, by the date given in the Awards Calendar. Just a couple are still to come and these will be with you as soon as possible.
In the meantime, here's a little peak at what the preliminary round competitions look like to us.
Chef, Young Chef, Cook & Serve, Manager of Tomorrow and Sales Coordinator all submit paper entries for their preliminary rounds.
The MARCHE Awards Office is strewn with towering piles of paperwork as we sort through all the entries, chase the ones lost in the mail or internet. They are copied and sent off to the relevant judging teams.
The Housekeeping Assistants all wait politely for their turn to take part in their practical assessments and written papers.
At least it was a glorious day with sunshine blazing in to make everyone feel a little sunnier themselves.
Due to a slight administrative error (we left the camera in the office *ahem*) we haven't got any photos of all the lovely Receptionists taking part in their preliminary round, so you will have to take our word for it that they were all turned out immaculately and entered into their allocated tasks with enthusiasm and energy.
Thank you Jurys Inn Birmingham for hosting us on Tuesday.
And today its the turn of the Food Service Assistant candidates.
Here they are being briefed on the plan for the day by the Chair of Judges.
Our specialist Judges take their judging responsibilities very seriously
And we really do thank them for their (very) hard work in judging each category.
Hall Green Greyhound Stadium hosted us for the first time this year - thank you for having us!
So that is a quick look at the preliminary rounds of the MARCHE Awards for Excellence competitions.
We're looking forward to seeing our finalists in the coming weeks.
! GOOD LUCK !
Tuesday, 17 January 2012
The BOBS - MARCHE Winners
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| Photo by Jas Sansi PHOTOGRAPHY |
Monday 16th January 2012
The BOBS
CONGRATULATIONS
MARCHE Members
The ICC & Symphony Hall
Best Overall Venue
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| Photo by Jas Sansi PHOTOGRAPHY |
Monday, 16 January 2012
Not just in the City Centre ...
Here in the MARCHE Awards Office - we officially love our competition venues. All those venues who so kindly let us take over a conference room, a bar or even an entire floor of bedrooms, so we can rampage around for a day with candidates, judges and camera crews.
These lovely venues also volunteer to host us and for that we are eternally grateful. Because of this - we don't have an awful lot of say as to where in the region the competitions take place, but between us, we are doing our best to cover "The Midlands".
So here is a map - with the varied location of the MARCHE Awards for Excellence 2012 competitions. As you can see ... not just in the City Centre!
These lovely venues also volunteer to host us and for that we are eternally grateful. Because of this - we don't have an awful lot of say as to where in the region the competitions take place, but between us, we are doing our best to cover "The Midlands".
So here is a map - with the varied location of the MARCHE Awards for Excellence 2012 competitions. As you can see ... not just in the City Centre!
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