Four days spent with 40 colleagues in a city like Chicago reminds you of the infinite possibilities of foodservice. The French may have invented the restaurant but it was the US that invented systems, layered over category killing, scaleable offers. … Read More
I was born and lived happily in a prosperous, sunny suburb of New York City until the age of eight when we were exiled by my father to a dank, grey mid-70s Britain. A land of plenty and excess was … Read More
A very sad story in the Manchester Evening News reveals that TV writer and comedian reveals Caroline Aherne is fighting lung cancer. This is a shock to us all. We all love Caroline for the brilliant Royal Family and before … Read More
Microsoft stopped providing support services such as security patch updates for Windows XP. All hardware (PC computers, terminals and handhelds) using the XP operating system may no longer be PCI compliant as they are unprotected from potential vulnerabilities from early … Read More
Site surveys are an integral element of our EPOS implementation process and the starting point for every solution we install and configure for our clients, writes GS project manager Andrew Elliott. To even consider carrying out an installation without a … Read More
Attending trade exhibitions are great opportunities to chat informally with bar, pub and restaurant operators away from the office in a relaxing in environment, writes Mike Chung. Yes, we’re looking to build new business partnership relationships with operators but more … Read More
I returned to Manchester House on Friday with a few friends. It had been booked months ago, long before I was invited to the preview, but problems with the building work had postponed the opening. We went to Artisan next door for a cocktail … Read More
A simple team building exercise devised by Rachel and Richard – take a drive to Delamere Forest, pitch a few tents, cook food, ride two wheelers, climb a few trees and complete a ‘pub’ quiz. What could go wrong? Well, … Read More
I’m always having ‘idiotic eureka moments’, (as comedian Frank Skinner describes them). These are times when there’s something so glaringly obvious but you just didn’t get it. For instance, Jean-Claude Van Damme is nicknamed ‘The Muscles from Brussels’. I just … Read More
I always said that if someone opened up a Venetian style ‘tapas’ bar in Manchester I thought that it’d do very well. Somewhere like Polpo or Bocca di Lupo in London. We have San Carlo Cicchetti of course, which we’ve … Read More