Congratulations…
…to Matthew Croxford, promoted to Restaurant Manager at the Mary Beale Restaurant at West Lodge Park. This promotion is richly deserved! [pic top left]
…to Sarah Harrison, promoted to Deputy Restaurant Manager at the Mary Beale Restaurant at West Lodge Park. [pic top middle-left]
…to Christie McVeigh, promoted to Restaurant Supervisor at OutsideIn Restaurant at Beales Hotel. [pic top middle-right]
…to Amy Tregidgo, Beales Hotel Champion of the Quarter. [pic top right]
…to Ljubica Goga, for the West Lodge Park Simply the Best award.
…to Tony Balaam, for the West Lodge Park Simply the Best award. [pic bottom left]
…to Grant Cook, Paul Baynes and Andrew Swales for winning the Enfield in Bloom Gold Award 2009 for the stunning gardens at West Lodge Park [pic bottom middle].
…to Lynn O’Connor, Accounts Manager on your move from Luton to Inverness. Lynn remains as Accounts Manager for Beales Hotels and through the wonders of modern technology can work remotely despite working in the Scottish Highlands! [pic bottom right].
Other news
Another bedroom refurbished at West Lodge Park – this time it is Room 56, with a new Zoffany wallpaper, new Samsung flat screen TV mounted on the wall, new bathroom lighting and immaculately painted woodwork.
New portrait delivered to the Mary Beale Restaurant – this fine portrait by Mary Beale is of Edward Stillingfleet who was Dean of St Paul’s Cathedral at the time of its rebuilding by Sir Christopher Wren. The day after the great fire of London in 1666, he preached an impassioned sermon in St Margaret’s church Westminster – the crowds were so thick in the church that Samuel Pepys gave up trying to get in and went to the pub instead! [pic right].
And finally…
…many thanks to David McIntyre, Front of House Manager at West Lodge Park and to Nicola Loasby, Revenue Manager, for managing the installation of a brand new Room Master property management and EPOS system into the hotel. This is a hair-raising project involving the manual inputting of thousands of room reservations, wine list and bar codes, menu items, guest histories,etc. This is the first major upgrade of our IT since 1989, and some would say, about time too! We went live on the 10th August and all has gone pretty smoothly [pics of David & Nicola right].
Andrew Beale
Managing Director
