{"id":11254,"date":"2016-04-21T09:21:58","date_gmt":"2016-04-21T08:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/?p=11254"},"modified":"2016-04-21T09:21:58","modified_gmt":"2016-04-21T08:21:58","slug":"hastings-hotel-staff-make-the-final-of-uk-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2016\/04\/hastings-hotel-staff-make-the-final-of-uk-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"HASTINGS HOTEL STAFF MAKE THE FINAL OF UK COMPETITION"},"content":{"rendered":"

UK Young Restaurant Team of The Year title could be coming to Northern Ireland<\/h1>\n
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Pictured (L-R) are Craig Thompson, Commis Chef at the Europa Hotel, Andrew Bradford, Commis Chef at Slieve Donard Resort & Spa, Jay Eisenstadt, Executive Head Chef at Stormont Hotel and Kevin Keenan, Front of House at Culloden Estate & Spa.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A team of talented young hospitality professionals from the Hastings Hotels Group have just been named as finalists in the UK Young Restaurant Team of The Year competition.<\/p>\n

They are one of only five teams from across the whole of the UK to make the final, explained Mark McGurnaghan, Group Human Resources Manager.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are thrilled that some of our talented restaurant team members have made it to the final in one of the most prestigious hospitality competitions for young people in the UK,\u201d said Mark.<\/p>\n

He continued:\u00a0 \u201cWe have been told that the calibre of the entrants this year was incredibly high so I would like to congratulate Andrew Bradford, Commis Chef, Slieve Donard Resort & Spa, Craig Thompson, Commis Chef, The Europa Hotel, Kevin Keenan, Front of House, Culloden Estate & Spa and the team mentor, Jay Eisenstadt, Executive Head Chef, The Stormont Hotel on making the final, which is an achievement in itself.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are dedicated to ensuring that the people who dine with us at Hastings Hotels, enjoy a first-class service and delicious locally sourced food, so to be recognised nationally in this way has really confirmed that the hard work and dedication to quality service our young team have been providing is working.\u00a0 We would like to wish them the best of luck for the final in July and we will be cheering them on.\u201d<\/p>\n

The final of the competition will take place in Sheffield at the Sheffield City College on July 5. <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

UK Young Restaurant Team of The Year title could be coming to Northern Ireland A team of talented young hospitality professionals from the Hastings Hotels Group have just been named as finalists in the UK Young Restaurant Team of The Year competition. They are one of only five teams from across the whole of the … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11254"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11256,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11254\/revisions\/11256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}