Daily Visitor Cafe Deal

The Museum of Childhood's visitor cafe has a different offer each day.

Montfort Catering Consultancy - From catering strategies and operational advice & organisational restructures to design, tender support and much more...

Retail Detail

The brand new Wintergarden 'food village' at Bluewater has recently reopened.

A brand new look and updated retail catering brands....

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Museum Cafe Promotional Deal

Spend £6 or more on lunch in the Benugo Cafe at the Museum of Childhood and get a free coffee. A simple yet effective promotion as the offer must be used on the same day and what is the likelihood you may also want something else to go with your free coffee?

Montfort Catering Consultancy - Improving existing cafes and developing new catering facilities.

Tower of London Visitor Catering Sign

The board itself may look like it's seen better days, but its great to see the New Armouries Cafe at the Tower of London using humour and venue association to draw customers into their visitor cafe.

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Garden Museum Cafe Voted 6th in the World

Well done to the Garden Museum Cafe for being voted number 6 of the world's best. It shows that you can still produce fantastic food even in a small space. The kitchen and storage may be very limited but they use this to their advantage - see below fruit and vegetables stored outside the kitchen.

The quality of the food at the Garden Museum Cafe is renowned - made from fresh natural ingredients and from the garden, where possible. However, the above storage solution, visible to customers, only reinforces this further.

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Marketing your cafe or restaurant

Two very different signs - both effective and relevant...

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Christmas Menu Promotion

It's perhaps a harsh view of Christmas but nonetheless, this promotional board at The Volunteer on Baker Street does draw your attention to the fact that they are doing a Christmas menu as well as the adjacent seasonal cocktails.

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Catering for Charity

Great to see that 5p on selected Pret products goes to HOPE - for the homeless.

What could your catering operation do to support a worthwhile charity?

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Street Food from KERB

Montfort Catering Consultants - If you are looking to undertake a catering review, do get in touch.

Sustainable Park Catering

The Honest Sausage, in Greenwich Park, Regent's Park and various other 'open spaces'. Owned and operated by Company of Cooks, all the sausages and bacon are sourced from a family run business in Gloucestershire. The company use only free-range and organic produce sourced from small family run farms within 15 miles of their premises. They are also Royal Warrant holders, Master butchers to HRH The Prince of Wales!

There's no excuse for Park catering to be anything but good.

See also: Park Catering Advice and Added Value Catering

Montfort Catering Consultancy - providing catering advice to Parks and Open Spaces.

Barbican Lounge

Barbican Lounge - Level 1

Montfort Catering Consultants - from catering strategies and feasibilities to operational reviews and catering design.

Tower of London Visitor Catering

Historic Royal Palaces Tower of London - Blood Velvet Cake at the New Armouries Cafe.

The above 'table-talker' approach encourages a further additional purchase. A relevant product and a great way to increase secondary spend while enhancing the visitor experience. 

What is your visitor cafe or restaurant doing that supports the wider attraction and optimises the catering spend?

Montfort Catering Consultants - Improving existing and developing new catering operations. Please get in touch if you are looking for a catering consultant to help you develop your catering.

Concrete - Hayward Gallery

A cafe by day and a bar by night  - Concrete, part of the Hayward Gallery on the Southbank does great snacks, meals and a fantastic cup of coffee. The design is a pleasant change from the usual approach that now seems commonplace across so many arts organisations and museums.

The 'banana truck fruit bowl' is a quirky touch!

Montfort Catering Consultants - operational reviews, financial benchmarking, feasibility studies, option appraisals, concept development, tender support and design advice to museums, galleries, historic houses, arts centres.....