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The Dorchester celebrating 90 years<br />

Main Kitchen<br />

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5<br />

- Collaboration with Manorfield Primary School<br />

and their annex Gorsefield, supporting them<br />

by working in the kitchen, cooking and doing<br />

masterclasses for the kids.<br />

- The 2020/1 team members saw us recognised as<br />

Best Team and our very own Salatore awarded<br />

Lockdown Legend of The Year.<br />

- We supported the culinary teams of four<br />

hospitals of the NHS.<br />

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1. Frederick Ubasa, Salvatore Leozappa, Amiqur Ansari (red/white/blue<br />

sweater), Soham Sonawane, Miguel Pinto (black bomber jacket), Ruth<br />

Hottinger, Bill Stoos, Chhabi Tamang, Lorenzo Manti (dark green top),<br />

Beatriz Oliveira, Barbara Pinto, Anna Sciucati 2. Jack Taylor and Mario Perera<br />

3. Guillermo Bitanga Villasista, Diamantis Kalogiannidis, Mario Perera,<br />

Shakil Ahmed, Clive Burgess, Miguel Pinto, Innes Mcaloon, Neil Blue,<br />

Soham Sonawane 4. Students from Chefs Forum with Soham Sonawane,<br />

Mario Perera 5. Salvatore Leozappa 6. Soham Sonawane and Mario Perera<br />

7. Soham Sonawane, Amiqur Ansari, Ruth Hottinger, Salvatore Leozappa,<br />

Chhabi Tamang, Alisha Pereira, Celine Homsey, Thomas Swierczyna, Frankie<br />

Fernandes, Mario Perera, Sworup Gurung 8. Mario Perera, Alisha Pereira,<br />

Soham Sonawane, Saravanan Palanipandichamy 9. Salvatore Leozappa,<br />

Zoe Martin, David Girard, Khin Maung Yee, Saravanan Palanipandichamy,<br />

Shreedharan Veerapagowder 10. Guy Sherman, Soham Sonawane, Saravanan<br />

Palanipandichamy, Mirko Cattini, Mario Perera 10. 11. Clive Burgess<br />

(back turned), Lorenzo Manti, Salvatore Leozappa, William Bates, Michaela<br />

Angelika, Rebecca Watson, Joshua Lees, Victor Otradovec.<br />

What did you do to stay<br />

connected as a team during<br />

the pandemic?<br />

During the pandemic we have run all sorts of<br />

different activities including:<br />

- A weekly ‘happy hour’<br />

- Training sessions for chefs in the kitchen with<br />

our local suppliers<br />

- Masterclasses for all of the dishes in the menu.<br />

- Training in food cost and food pricing, recipe<br />

formatting.<br />

- International cook-off masterclasses<br />

- Supporting Manorfield Primary School<br />

- Monthly departmental to give updates on hotel<br />

operations and business.<br />

- Running hotel-wide Zoom call competitions<br />

covering; pizza-making, cake-making, pancake<br />

day, cookies and many more.<br />

In addition, as part of our We Care initiatives we<br />

have made regular welfare calls to the whole team.<br />

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