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This week marked the opening of Safeway's newest Fuel Station Express in Kona, Hawaii, located at 75-961 Henry Street. Perfectly timed for the holiday weekend, the station allows locals and visitors to refuel and explore the Kona Safeway. The inauguration included a traditional blessing by Kumu Keala Ching. The station also boasts a convenience store filled with an assortment of quick snacks and self-service drink choices. Read more about the station's amenities: https://lnkd.in/gDbE-T5t
Reducing operational costs while keeping high standards can be a significant challenge.
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Reducing operational costs while keeping high standards can be a significant challenge.
The SteamKing Classic offers a solution by lowering labour hours spent on cleaning and using fewer expensive cleaning products to get better results.. It's an effective way for quick-service restaurants in Canada to achieve operational savings.
#OperationalSavings#SteamKingClassic#quickservice
Reducing operational costs while keeping high standards can be a significant challenge.
The SteamKing Classic offers a solution by lowering labour hours spent on cleaning and using fewer expensive cleaning products to get better results.. It's an effective way for quick-service restaurants in Canada to achieve operational savings.
#OperationalSavings#SteamKingClassic#quickservice
LOGISTICS
An important part of any nation is the logistical sector, because it is an sector which connects every other and through which every other is connected. The government should create:
Logistics Park (Level 1): This park should be of 150 acres and should be created in cities declared as Tier 1. In this park, facilities should be given for rental parking(per hour rents) as well as for food(snacks, restaurants, tea shops etc.).
Logistics Park(Level 2): This park should be of 100 acres and should be created declared as Tier 2. In this park, facilities should be given for rental parking as well as for food(snacks, restaurants, tea shops etc.).
This will give an boost to logistics sector in the country from an economical point of view.
Where’s the best food hall in the UK? There are over 100 to choose from, with - according to industry expert Simon Anderson - more than 30 in development. Currently, it’s Cutlery Works in Sheffield, who have won Best Food Hall at the British Street Food Awards for the past two years. And this year the Award will be more hotly contested than ever. Applications are about to open at https://lnkd.in/e-ZKbGx8. But with a series of closures (including Sale and Stratford) - and Sessions pulling out of a planned project in Manchester - has the Food Hall bubble burst? That’s what BBC Radio 4 asked us. After all, we launched game-changing Trinity Kitchen back in 2013, drawing on the best of the new food heroes. And have now expanded our search for the best street food talent into Europe and the US. Click below.
Food halls seem pretty recession proof. They are staff light and offer a low(ish) barrier to entry into the industry. Market Halls, Seven Dials and Boxpark seem to be making real money. The reasons around failures in Sale and Stratford are peculiar to each site, and don’t offer up any clear evidence of a deep-seated malaise in the food hall business. Although they do seem to suggest that the Manchester market is saturated. However, the feeling from the street food world is that - while food halls can offer great opportunities - all too often they don’t serve the trader’s best interests.
Two previous British Street Food Awards grand champions - Ranie Sirah from Jah Jyot and Helios Gala from Pabellon - reckoned that the management in food halls all too often feels like a ‘landlord’ rather than a ‘partner’. Ranie and Helios felt the fate of their business was taken out of their hands. “The dwell time was 40-50% longer in a food hall” says Ranie, “meaning that people were taking up space, nursing a half for three hours. That’s a table that could be taken up with a paying customer.” Helios agreed. “Most food halls are overloaded with traders, and they expect you to open ridiculously long hours….That isn’t aligned with the realistic numbers that we, as food vendors, need to cover expenses and make a profit.”
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Squatters who have occupied a Gordon Ramsay pub in central London (Camden) want to open the Grade II-listed building to people who could "previously not afford to visit".
One representative noted that "Camden is a borough with one of the biggest wealth disparities in London, so it seems only fitting that £13m properties that most locals would never be able to afford to visit should be opened up to all." 🍺
#gordonramsay#pub#squatters#foodindustry#newsletter
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The news that Ardnahoe distillery has closed their cafe and reduced its staffing is a blow to those who have lost their jobs. The closure illustrates the difficulties that face many new rural businesses as they find their feet in uncertain times.
In hospitality each post-lockdown season is different from the last, it’s impossible to plan for the whipsaw of demand. Then there’s the patchy Calmac ferry service, putting off tourists, as it does to so many Scottish islands, another deterrent to visitors who might pop over if transport were guaranteed.
The rationalisation at Ardnahoe Distillery has caught the news because the business is a new entrant into the Scotch whisky market, which is fast evolving and closely observed. Never more so than a new distillery on Islay, the spiritual home for whisky disciples.
Scotch whisky businesses are seen as rich and self-sustaining by local authorities, by business and grant support bodies. This may be the case for brands which are generations old, but for new entrants the opposite is true - they are under enormous financial pressure. In the early days of a new business multi million pound investments in equipment and buildings must be funded, the ongoing cost of distilling is eye watering. All the while the finished product cannot be sold for many years.
Ardnahoe wouldn’t be the first new distillery to adjust down their staff count as they find out what works for them, concentrating their funding on the mission critical production of spirit. As the distillery ages, and hopefully the external challenges reduce, it will find the balance between building the brand through the visitor centre and providing employment for the community.
It is the Islay brand which has attracted the new distilleries to start on the island. Now the island is full and perhaps it is over-supplied with distillery visitor centres and coffee shops. Another reason for new distillers to set up elsewhere. Weren’t we just talking about the revival of Campbeltown, just a little further down the coast?
#islay#scotchwhisky#cambeltown#argyllandbute
With all the good news stories about Scotch, there naturally are those who are surprised by this. Whisky stuff CLOSING.
Here's news: MOST Distilleries in Scotland are CLOSED to visitors. We're in a Scotch Whisky environment where the Mega producers like Diageo can 'ride out a storm' like Brexit and rely on their large global network, to supply Staff (and Capital) for their Distilleries. However, even THEY have a portfolio that mostly isn't open to the public. Most Distilleries in Scotland AREN'T. Most Scots are totally shocked, when they find this out. They assume Distilleries are well visited. They're not. When it comes to 'visitors', we're easily outperformed by Kentucky in the USA and Irish Whiskey. Scotch needs to be much better. The 'powers that be' tend to keep this VERY quiet.
Scotch has always been Boom/Bust and historically, has not been great at 'planning'. It's probably why you STILL can't visit the World's Biggest Scotch Bottling Plant at Leven, Scotland's Biggest Malt Whisky Distillery at Roseisle, or ANY of the several 'Grain' ones, all over Scotland.
It's definitely why we need a Scotch Whisky Tourism, Marketing Strategy, totally separate from any Brand. For EVERY Distillery. Especially the smaller more remote ones, where 'staffing' is a real issue (wonder why?).
We need to give the smaller Distilleries voice, we need to promote Scotch Whisky, the Brand.
Unquestionably. We also need to do it quickly.
#ScotchWhiskyTruths
The news that Ardnahoe distillery has closed their cafe and reduced its staffing is a blow to those who have lost their jobs. The closure illustrates the difficulties that face many new rural businesses as they find their feet in uncertain times.
In hospitality each post-lockdown season is different from the last, it’s impossible to plan for the whipsaw of demand. Then there’s the patchy Calmac ferry service, putting off tourists, as it does to so many Scottish islands, another deterrent to visitors who might pop over if transport were guaranteed.
The rationalisation at Ardnahoe Distillery has caught the news because the business is a new entrant into the Scotch whisky market, which is fast evolving and closely observed. Never more so than a new distillery on Islay, the spiritual home for whisky disciples.
Scotch whisky businesses are seen as rich and self-sustaining by local authorities, by business and grant support bodies. This may be the case for brands which are generations old, but for new entrants the opposite is true - they are under enormous financial pressure. In the early days of a new business multi million pound investments in equipment and buildings must be funded, the ongoing cost of distilling is eye watering. All the while the finished product cannot be sold for many years.
Ardnahoe wouldn’t be the first new distillery to adjust down their staff count as they find out what works for them, concentrating their funding on the mission critical production of spirit. As the distillery ages, and hopefully the external challenges reduce, it will find the balance between building the brand through the visitor centre and providing employment for the community.
It is the Islay brand which has attracted the new distilleries to start on the island. Now the island is full and perhaps it is over-supplied with distillery visitor centres and coffee shops. Another reason for new distillers to set up elsewhere. Weren’t we just talking about the revival of Campbeltown, just a little further down the coast?
#islay#scotchwhisky#cambeltown#argyllandbute
Exciting news for Kona, Hawaii!