| Uptown gets Delifrance | | Posted Wednesday, January 17, 2007 3:18:11 PM by Blog57 Team | | A Delifrance restaurant has opened at Uptown Mirdiff in Dubai. Local operator Cateriya Catering Services is planning more outlets in Dubai, including one at the Dubai International Financial Centre. Delifrance has been serving French baked products in over 50 countries for more than more than 25 years. .... | |
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| | | Popular restaurateur mourned | | Posted Saturday, November 11, 2006 3:33:39 PM by Blog57 Team | | In his 71 years, Lawrence R. Zopp owned several restaurants, a catering business and a painting business, restored a floundering local Moose Lodge, sponsored countless youth sports teams and was elected to the Bowling Hall of Fame. "He was a busy guy," his daughter, Shannon Edmondson of Johnson City said. "Not one of those guys who was a gardener -- his hobby was work." Although he had a garden, too, Edmondson said. Larry Zopp, 71, of Johnson City, died Tuesday after a monthslong battle with cancer. Mr. Zopp was well-known as the owner of Zopp's Lounge on Henry Street in downtown Binghamton and Zopp's II in Johnson City, where customers came to try the "Zoppburger." The Zoppburger was a bacon cheeseburger covered in mushrooms, which weighed in at just about a pound, longtime friend John Young, of Binghamton, said.... | |
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| | | College catering for bakery's training needs | | Posted Monday, November 06, 2006 1:42:49 PM by Blog57 Team | | A bakery has turned to the skills of a North college for the ingredients to raise its customer service skills. Newcastle College's school of service skills is working with family baker Davidson's of Darras Hall, in Ponteland, Northumberland, to meet its staff development needs. Davidson's of Darras Hall, a traditional bakery which aims to meet the needs of modern day customers, has opened another outlet in the food hall at Robbs in Hexham, Northumberland. Sales staff at the company will study for an NVQ Level Two in customer service, while its management team will go for an NVQ Level Three in management. Bakery owner Trevor Davidson said: "We decided to go through the staff training scheme at Newcastle College because of the significance they place on customer service and of the importance staff development plays in such a competitive market place." Director of Newcastle College's school of service skills, Gaye Hutchinson, said: "Davidson's have recognised the need for strong customer service and we are delighted to offer training to such a dedicated workforce.... | |
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| | | Millionaires flaunt their riches in Moscow | | Posted Monday, November 06, 2006 3:23:03 AM by Blog57 Team | | Out of gift ideas for the holiday season? Businesses catering to Russia's millionaires suggest a $1.3 million diamond-encrusted cellphone, a $500,000 racehorse or -- if you're really short of cash -- a $70,000 mini airplane. These are among the items on display at the Millionaire Fair in Moscow this week -- a screaming showcase of the country's oil-driven wealth and the free-spending ways of its nouveau riche. In some ways, the event was testimony to how far Russia has come since the communist era 15 years ago. Russia now has an estimated 33 billionaires and up to 90,000 millionaires, and Moscow is home to more rich people than New York. Yet the fair, held in a gleaming shopping mall on the capital's northern outskirts, also served as a bleak reminder of the tremendous gap between the small group of the extraordinarily wealthy and the nearly one-fifth of Russians who live below the poverty line of $410 per month.... | |
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| | | Catering to the stars The Fishers' Loft Inn has entertained the cast of Shipping News with its simple, quality fare | | Posted Tuesday, October 31, 2006 7:11:32 PM by Blog57 Team | | Few of us can claim to have taught a famous actress new tricks, but Helen Fowlow took a dame of the British stage and screen and taught her how to bake a French baguette, how to cure a touch of respiratory infection and how to fall in love with the simple things in life. When Lasse Hallstrom went looking for the right piece of Newfoundland coastline to film his movie adaptation of Annie Proulx's novel “The Shipping News," he discovered Trinity Bight, a small harbour of paradise on the Bonavista Peninsula. And when filming was about to commence, the stars of the film — Dame Judy Dench, Kevin Spacey, Julianne Moore, Cate Blanchett — discovered the Fishers' Loft Inn and Fowlow's superb cooking. The Fishers' Loft, one of the province's finest inns, is built in the local vernacular architectural style, using local building materials and local craftsmen.... | |
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| | | Enjoy getting new postal stamps every month in Indore | | Posted Wednesday, October 25, 2006 11:14:16 PM by Blog57 Team | | Indore, Oct.25 (ANI): It is a difficult job for a philatelist to keep track of all new postage stamp and visit post offices to collect them. Now Indian Posts' philatelic museum here is catering to philatelists' demand for new postal stamps and first day covers. Madhusudan Bhale happens to be just a passionate philatelist and the sender of the mail is Indore's postal department. The philately sends him envelops in the form of 'first day covers', newly-issued stamps and any other collectables the department issues. With services and encouragement from the General Post Office (GPO) of Indore, many stamp lovers like Bhale have built a big collection. Thanks to the unique scheme introduced by the head post office of Indore, which is also a museum for philatelists and a source of building up one's personal collection.... | |
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| | | Strike disrupts catering on local SAA flights | | Posted Friday, October 20, 2006 11:08:06 PM by Blog57 Team | | A brief strike at OR Tambo International Airport today disrupted food supplies to South African Airways (SAA) domestic flights, said the carrier. Jacqui O'Sullivan, the SAA spokesperson, said drivers for Air Chefs, which supplies the food to SAA flights, went on strike at the airport outside Johannesburg for a few hours. "The matter was resolved this morning," said O'Sullivan. "All operations should be back to normal tomorrow." International flights unaffected O'Sullivan said SAA prioritised supplies to its international flights so these were not affected. All domestic flights from OR Tambo were affected, and had limited supplies of food. O'Sullivan said the flights had water, juice and biscuits. She said there had been no warning to SAA of the strike and the carrier was consulting with Air Chefs about it.... | |
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| | | South Oakland Shelter honors volunteers, 'graduates' | | Posted Monday, October 16, 2006 3:13:25 AM by Blog57 Team | | Breakfast for 130? It's no problem for Dominick Pollino, who has a fledgling business based in Clawson called RX Catering. But there was a time when Pollino couldn't scramble up a meal for himself. He was homeless until he walked into the South Oakland Shelter, Royal Oak, and was accepted into the job placement and counseling program that can take someone from the streets to an apartment in as little as 90 days. Pollino, who now lives in Royal Oak, is one of the SOS success stories everyone was talking about Wednesday at the agency's 20th anniversary celebration at Birmingham Unitarian Church, Bloomfield Hills. "What I learned at SOS is that who I was wasn't as important as who I wanted to become," Pollino told a crowd of SOS board members, supporters and volunteers.... | |
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| | | More companies catering to solo women travelers | | Posted Tuesday, October 10, 2006 7:09:51 PM by Blog57 Team | | The idea of vacationing solo can be daunting for anyone. It may be particularly intimidating for single women with safety concerns or other worries about being alone in a foreign land. But that's no excuse to stay at home. Web sites specializing in women's travel offer a host of opportunities, from luxury travel to rugged outdoor adventures. Most of the sites were founded by women for women, and many seek to create a safe environment that allows women to form bonds of friendship while seeing the world. Cheryl Fleet began the travel company Canyon Calling after noticing that some women in coed travel groups didn't speak up. Fleet writes on her Web page — www.canyoncalling.com — that women who vacation together in the outdoors "bond quickly and forgive each other's little quirks.... | |
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| | | Retail Notebook: 30 years of catering to cooks | | Posted Sunday, October 08, 2006 1:09:56 PM by Blog57 Team | | Fumie Kawashiwa chuckled in wonderment at the orange, plastic gizmo hanging from a rotary rack. It was shaped like a light bulb, with spokes. Whatever could it be for? Ah, it was a papaya slicer -- a concept that left the young Japanese tourist and her mother shaking their heads in amusement. .... | |
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