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business: international insurance company HQ

Great savings have been achieved for an insurance company's top-class restaurant and newly-developed commercial-style coffee bar with bartlett mitchell's redesigned and refocused offer.

  • 1,000 people on site
  • Top class traditional staff restaurant area
  • Large self-contained deli bar which trades 60% of business
  • Large vending fleet & cashless system of 18 beverage machines
  • Separate Deli/ coffee bar branded to a retail concept
  • Meeting room hospitality over 3 separate buildings & sub-lease clients
  • Large front-line team TUPE'd successfully
Achievements
  • Reduction of catering costs by 70%
  • bartlett mitchell's ability to use creative ideas allowed substantial reduction in costs.
  • Our creative director has provided added value in assisting in the refurbishment project of the catering area and bought an innovative eye for detail to the project
  • Proactive ideas and excellent communication has revived clients confidence in delivery of the promise by contractor
  • Separate deli/coffee bar has been focused to deliver more cost-effective catering in the future
  • The team which transferred over to bartlett mitchell have been motivated by the personal level of attention they have received and the open and honest communication available
  • The Chief Executive has been able to reflect the need for a change in culture of the company through the catering offer
 

latest news items

David's on film

Our fabulous Creative Director, David James, has started a new hobby on YouTube. He's going to be adding a veritable feast of recipes on-line soon. 

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We think he's a budding Delia. Watch this space as the PearAcademy on-line training sessions are going to be growing!

 
WINNER Shine Awards 2010

 Wendy Bartlett, the illustrious Managing Director of bartlett mitchell has been awarded the "Travel, Tourism & Hospitality Entrepreneur of the Year" at The Shine Awards 2010. 

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latest press articles

Wendy Bartlett: a powerful person in Hospitality

It's official, Wendy is one of the Industry's movers and shakers in 2010 - so says The Caterer & Hotelkeeper's Top 100 Most Influential People in Hospitality.

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David's latest blog entry

Dinner for One

I discovered the other day that the sales of kitchen equipment designed for single-people, such as small saucepans, frying pans that can hold no more than one egg and single-cup teapots have soared by 140 per cent compared with a year ago, according to Debenhams.

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