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Recruitment for the Food & Drink Industry: Restaurants, Pubs, Hotels, Independent Boutique Operators, Bars, Clubs, Festivals, Events, Private Households, Boats

[Winterhalter @WinterhalterUK]

The KP of the Year 2026 will be awarded the prestigious KPOTY trophy, £1500 in vouchers and a celebratory meal. The winning KP’s employer will get a piece of Winterhalter equipment worth up to £10,000. In conjunction with @TheStaffCanteen.

Enter now👉 https://t.co/UHzbvVD4jD

[Winterhalter @WinterhalterUK]

The KP of the Year 2026 will be awarded the prestigious KPOTY trophy, £1500 in vouchers & a celebratory meal for friends and family in a casual dining restaurant of their choice. What’s more, the winning KP’s employer will get a piece of Winterhalter equipment worth up to £10k

[Part and Company @Partandcompany]

@OctopusEnergy Please do as I have spent upwards of 6 hours of phone calls and over 25 emails with full evidence and a complaint opened for 2 months

[Part and Company @Partandcompany]

@OctopusEnergy how do you bill £5000 for a vacant property with no electric fittings and a condemned meter that hasn’t had a bill for 3 years . Had a complaint opened for 2 months. Clearly an account admin mistake … as paid all bills for 12 years direct debit

[Part and Company @Partandcompany]

@OctopusEnergy should clearly be 2 accounts for separate properties, have produced all evidence and @nationalgrid paperwork, been reported in for over 2 years and still you ignore ….woeful behaviour

[James Shields @scaling_shields]

seen this firsthand

my mates uncle supplies paper napkins to 800 restaurants across the costa del sol

€11M last year

from napkins, a warehouse, a van and a phone

met him at a bbq in marbella last summer

looked like a retired PE teacher

polo shirt
sandals
drives a 2019 volkswagen

i asked my mate what his uncle does

"logistics"

"what kind"

"he delivers napkins and paper towels to restaurants"

i laughed

"hes worth about €8 million"

i stopped laughing

later that night his uncle started talking

"we buy napkins from one factory in valencia. €0.003 per napkin. we sell them to restaurants for €0.01. thats a 230% markup on something people blow their nose with and throw in the bin"

"but the real money isnt the margin. its the reorder"

every restaurant orders napkins
every week
without thinking about it

"we have 800 restaurants. average order is €180/week. 52 weeks a year. do the maths"

800 × €180 × 52 = €7.4M

plus paper towels toilet rolls takeaway containers and cleaning supplies

€11M total

i asked if restaurants ever switch suppliers

"why would they? its napkins. nobody has a meeting about napkins. nobody puts napkins out to tender. the chef calls me on monday like hes done for 9 years and says 'same again' and i deliver on wednesday"

zero churn on a product people throw away without thinking

thats the moat

"what about competition?"

"who wants to compete in napkins? every kid on the internet wants to build an app or start an agency. nobody wakes up and says i want to be the napkin guy. thats why ive had no real competitor in 22 years"

i asked why he doesnt scale to other regions

"why? i work 4 days a week. i drive my daughter to school every morning. i take august off. i made €11M last year selling things people wipe their mouth with and throw on the floor. what would scaling get me? stress?"

he took a sip of wine and said the thing i think about constantly

"the best business in the world is selling something nobody thinks about to customers who never switch. the moment your business is interesting enough to talk about at dinner someone will try to copy it. i sell napkins. nobody copies me. nobody wants to"

there are families all over europe running businesses like this

invisible
boring
printing

while everyone fights over the same saturated markets trying to look impressive online

attention attracts competition

obscurity attracts profit

[GB News @GBNEWS]

BREAKING NEWS: Greene King at risk of closing 150 pubs amid 'perfect storm' of rising inflation and taxes

https://t.co/nfP1DKVCrr

[The Standard @theLDNstandard]

Jobs crisis in London deepens as unemployment races to new 12 year high of 7.9% https://t.co/NYwodCeARi

[Sky News Breaking @SkyNewsBreak]

Office for National Statistics says rate of UK unemployment remained unchanged at 5.2% in the three months to January

For more on this and other news visit https://t.co/NEDMP2uP6W

[UKHospitality @UKHofficial]

Hospitality is most people’s first job and the best entry point into the job market.

Thank you to John Cooper for raising the importance of first jobs and asking for a change of policy on employer NICs.

Government must safeguard first jobs and entry level jobs.

[Rick Golfs @Top100Rick]

One for the slow golfers out there:

If you play in over 4 hours at Sleepy Hollow (and many other clubs of stature) you will get your name posted for the whole club to see.

Is this a fair punishment?

To the slow golfers, do you still think it’s okay to be slow?

Does the fact that great golf clubs would punish you for slow play finally make you consider that maybe you are a problem?

Keep in mind, this doesn’t mean you have to rush. It just means being ready to hit and not acting like you are trying to win a major with every 3 footer.

[Chelsea FC @ChelseaFC]

Iconic. 🍿

[Part and Company @Partandcompany]

@QHotels #OxfordBelfry Possibly the worst hotel stay in my life. Pre paid pre booked room check in 5pm and not available till 7pm. Tone and attitude/ communication of front desk woeful. Finally a visiting staff member gave up their room !
Whole experience woeful and unacceptable

[Part and Company @Partandcompany]

@SW_Help Absolute joke ! One train every 2 hours due to “safety” cancel first train due to “lack of staff “ 2 hour wait … 3.15 journey now 6 hours … great for a meeting ! Refund again on an already overpriced rubbish service

[Paul Charity @PaulCharity1]

Almost three quarters (73%) of hospitality businesses have less than six months of cash reserves, with one in five having no cash reserves at all, a new study has revealed @UKHofficial - in Propel

[John King Brain Tumour Foundation @JohnKingBTF]

Save the date...

We are pleased to announce our 7th Annual Golf Day to be held at Woburn Golf Club on Friday 30th May.

Please hurry, spaces on the Golf Day are limited.
Thank you for your support.

https://t.co/UPEYc0Gu9O

#golf #golfday #fundraising #project21forlife

[Part and Company @Partandcompany]

@DAZN_help_ @DAZNBoxing @dazngroup HELP as your [email protected] is redundant and I have been charged a years subscription at 14.99 a month but my account says I am on a FREE subscription…. I need to cancel or be refunded

[Part and Company @Partandcompany]

@CoventryBS I will do but have wasted 5 months 6 hours of phone calls . 9 weeks waiting for customer complaints department to come back with answers. All of your staff are so embarrassed by the service and system

[Part and Company @Partandcompany]

@CoventryBS your @ says it all. You and @AsktheCoventry have made the last 6 months. The worst service , communication, application process of my adult life #Mortgage. An Embarrassment in every way . Going @financialombuds for answers

[ThatPubChick 🥂 @pub_that]

33 years Simon Rimmer has had this restaurant. @TonyRoddUK & @jrmallcock have also closed their restaurants since Christmas. These are top class operators, when will this government wake up. No wonder they have awarded a Knighthood to Mr Spoons…he’s going to be all that’s left.