Liz weighs into the hottest debate in hospitality! Here’s all you need to know about cakeage. As well as some alternatives ideas, if you and your customers find the charge difficult to stomach. The hospitality sector was thrust into the headlines recently as a restaurant attempted to charge a diner £10 per head for ‘cakeage’, when he asked if he …
With International Women’s Day just next week, Liz has been catching up with some of the UK’s top female entrepreneurs. Ready to share their words of wisdom, for others hoping to emulate their success, and looking at the unique set of advice from four of the UK’s top female entrepreneurs. “In my Events That Made Me Podcast I have had …
How to turn your business idea into a reality that is profitable, getting a business off the ground, plus do we really all have the same 24 hours in a day? A conscious decision that I have made as I’ve progressed further in my career, is to actively engage with the next generation of event planners. Visiting universities to give …
Your New Year’s Business Resolution. Saying No. No. One of the simplest words in the English language. In linguistic terms, such an easy word to pronounce. One little syllable, two tiny letters. So, why is it that so many businesspeople find it so hard to say? Especially as, in my opinion, saying no in business is a strength. Difficulty saying …
Automation – the solution to staff shortages in hospitality or the death of customer service? It seems everywhere you look now there is automation. From the self-service check outs at the supermarkets, to online banking or self-organising doctor appointments, vaccinations, flights, hotel stays and now, even more so since covid, ordering drinks and food within the hospitality industry. Once thought …
Liz has Christmas quite literally all wrapped-up at Victors restaurants and Neighbourhood, Liverpool Liz says: “When I started my luxury hospitality consultancy it was because I knew I had a lot to offer venues that were looking to elevate their brands and appeal to new luxury markets. “My years of event design and set dressing, along with the trusted contacts …
So many people have brilliant business ideas. It always amazes me how people continue to come up with new takes on old ideas. Or completely new profitable products. But not everyone can make those ideas a reality. Sometimes it’s time management. Life gets in the way. We’ve all heard that old saying that life is something that happens while you’re …
It seems you can’t look at a newspaper or website right now without seeing Salt Bae, the steakhouse lord whose Knightsbridge restaurant is certainly snatching the headlines.  The hype is off the scale. People are outraged and intrigued in equal measures by the price of a gold-coated steak and reports of bills in the tens of thousands that would make …
One of the few, and surprising upsides of the pandemic, has been the renaissance of outdoor dining in the UK. Albeit a forced shift, you will be hard pushed to find somebody who hasn’t embraced the al fresco dining revolution happening not just here, but in major cities all across the world. But does the UK still have an appetite …
Over the course of my 35-year career I have both received and given my fair share of feedback. In my early years, you might’ve said I was better at giving it than getting it. But that’s likely to be true for many who are young, brimming with ideas and eager to climb the ladder. They don’t, and I didn’t want …
