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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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