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Thursday, October 11 • 10:00am - 10:45am
Food Envy - Is It Time to Elevate Your Food & Beverage Offering?

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With room occupancy and average room rate levels stalling, is it time you had another look at the value your Food and Beverage offering could bring to your property? Our panel of experts will guide you through the menu options.

Moderators
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Charles Manners

Director, Turpin Smale Catering Consultants
Charles is a Director of Turpin Smale catering Consultants, a leading hospitality consultancy. Charles has management and extensive catering and conference consultancy experience, with clients in the university, visitor attractions, commercial and high street markets, delivering both... Read More →

Speakers
avatar for Tom Chalmers

Tom Chalmers

Design Director, Saco Property Group
Tom is the Design Director at SPG and has over 15 years of experience in commercial hospitality design, planning, and construction. Tom is responsible for the oversight of the brand’s architectural and interior design initiatives and for the creation and revisions of the Brand Guidelines... Read More →
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Richard Downs

Director of Franchising & Business Development, Casual Dining Group
Richard spearheads the ambitious roll out of CDG brands across the globe, adding franchised operations to the 300 equity sites the company currently trades. Alongside this he leads CDGs tender process for new concepts within their growing concessions business. With over 20 years of... Read More →
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David Taylor

VP Operations – Principal, IHG
David is IHG’s Vice Present of Operations for  Principal; a collection of hotels based in landmark buildings in exceptional locations across the United Kingdom which was acquired from Starwood Capital in July 2018.Prior to taking on this role in April 2015, he was General Manager... Read More →
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Jon Yantin

Managing Director, Stake Concepts
Jon is a senior hospitality professional with significant board level experience at strategic and operational levels combining over 25 years of hospitality experience across the wider sectors of Hotels, bars , restaurants and casinos. Most recently as founding partner of The ONE Group... Read More →


Thursday October 11, 2018 10:00am - 10:45am BST
Deansgate 1