The Bat & Ball_Business Plan

The Bat & Ball
Foggy Dessillas
'A unique, confident and energetic individual who
has a proven track record in multi site operations in
the licensed trade for both food and drink.
He is assertive, entrepreneurial, and able to produce
profit without compromising standards and the
guests’ experience.
His real strength is in recognising new trends and
motivating the right people to deliver the excellence
and controls required to produce positive results’
Foggy started of working in a bank – he quickly learnt that hospitality was
the way forward for him and took his firs post as assistant manager of The
Top Rank Suite in Cardiff back in 1980. Foggy opened his first business at
the ripe old age of 24 and has never looked back.
He has since worked for all the major brewery brands over the years –
Bass, Whitbread, Allied, and has been an area manager for some of the
biggest brands. Toby Restaurants, (Bass) Brewers Fayre, (Whitbread)
Premier Inns ( Whitbread), American Themed Restaurants ( M&B) and
Costa Coffee ( Whitbread)
In 2001 Foggy opened his first tenancy with Young’s in London – The
Thatched House in Hammersmith and soon went on to open two further.
The Old Anchor in Twickenham (Young’s) and The George Inn Old Oxted
(Hall and Woodhouse)
After a spell of travelling Foggy came back to the UK and joined Hall and
Woodhouse as an area manager looking after an estate of 40 tenancies
where he stayed for a further 6 years.
Foggy was also the go to guy for new inductees into Hall and Woodhouse
and still fulfils that role to this day.
When Foggy left in May 2015 Hall and Woodhouse gave him an
opportunity to put into practice what he has been preaching by going back
into the tenanted model of business by taking on The Dragon, Colgate
(Butcher Block concept) and The Tavern at Horley ( High Street Pub) with
Oscar.
A place to eat, drink and relax