With 62 relief chefs out working this is a brilliant number for this time of year.
We set ourselves targets each month and we are on par for Permanent, Adverts and Relief.
This is a good way to make sure we always aim high.
We are meeting relief chefs over the next few weeks with Paul Wenbourne coming in today at 11am.
Please get in touch and we will check what our availability is and get you booked in.
Christmas is fast approaching, I will post the relief jobs we have in already and we can get some of these filled.
Jessica is off to Spain to visit her family on Monday for 1 week she will be enjoying some winter sun and going to some of her favourite restaurants.
We are also out for our staff meal tonight for Alannah’s leaving and we will be going to Brodies in Moffat so we can all enjoy their great selection of Gin (apart from Alannah obviously).
A few chefs who have been out
Bruce Robertson has been on Islay at The Bridge End Hotel, Ryan Williamson is at The Old Bridge Hotel, Corno Cloete is at The Bridge Hotel in Buttermere along with new recruit George Constantin, Lillian Clarkson is finishing up at Woll golf, John McGregor is back at The Scores Hotel, Sarah Pozzi is in Dumfriesshire at Springkell, Paul Sellers is over in Northumberland at Collingwood Arms Hotel, David Young is in Skye at the Ferry Inn, Stuart Palmer is back at Glengarry Castle, Scott MacIntyre is at The Queens Hotel in Oban and Kai Stutzkeitz was at The Links Hotel and is now away back home to Germany.
Thanks to you all for all your hard work you are all amazing.
Brewery update 16th October 2017
change of use in Local Paper last week, hope to have AOK in November.
650 litre brewing equipment ordered, arrive mid January.
Tests ongoing in Moffat on brew recipe over winter.
Tom Barr, Director of Special Projects including brewery, settling in well.
website set up.
prospectus ready to be sent out as soon as we get change of use.
Premises in Lockerbie being made good.
hoping to have been production underway early 2018.
Gin production by summer 2018.
I am pleased to announce that Thomas Barr from Moffat, a graduate in Accountancy from Dundee University, has agreed to join Chefs In Scotland Limited with remit to develop the brewery in Lockerbie, alongside other Special Projects.
Thomas has recently completed returned from his studies in Canada where he completed a
Small Business and Entrepreneurship Certificate at Mohawk College.
Thomas will start with us in early September and will be working on getting planning
permission completed at the premised in Well Street in Lockerbie, being
involved in the works to the property and working with myself to get the
Prospectus ready for investors.
This is an exciting project.
Galldachd na h-Alba Brewery
Driving into Lockerbie in the van this morning felt a little different. Bentley the Basset and El Poco the Street dog from Nerja on the Costa Del Sol were in their usual positions in the back on the mattress that we shared last winter in Spain. They didn’t bark too much as I exited the M74 and drove past the rubble of what used to be the school I left in 1982.
The squash courts and the ice rink remain much the same; without the space invaders but full of many instant memories of a miss-spent youth.
We drove down through the busy high street, today packed with cylists heading up to Moffat on the back road. Down past the railway station where I first alighted in Lockerbie in 1975 with my mother and my big brother Alex, some three months before my 10th birthday.
Well Street is narrow and there is a dead end where I park up the van and walk through the vennel to the solicitors, Henderson and MacKay, next to the Kings Arms Hotel where I played pool and drank a pint of lager with my dad on my 18th birthday.
I am jovial and joke with the lady in reception that Tom my solicitor has booked his six shares in the brewery which is yet an empty shell.
With two keys for the door and my camera, Bentley and El Poco bark at this folly.
Tomorrow can be a day for planning; today is just a day for dreaming.
Chefs In Scotland Limited is pleased to the purchase of the premises at 8 Well Street in Lockerbie.
We expect the handover date to be the 1st of August, our offer has been accepted and our lawyer is completing the transaction.
8 Well Street has been used as a Painter and Decorators Workshop for the last 40 odd years since before I moved to Lockerbie as a young boy in 1975.
We are calling the boutique brewery Galldachd na h-Alba Brewery which translates as Lowlands of Scotland Brewery.
Initially, we plan to make one craft beer and a high end gin.
We are planning to start production in early 2018.
We are recruiting a brewer and if anyone would like to express an interest in the position please email me
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