Record-breaking 2025 Gold Service Scholarship winning finalists revealed
Ten young front of house professionals from across the UK will be competing in the final of the 2025 Gold Service Scholarship – the highest number of winning finalists since the competition began. Coming from a variety of restaurants, ranging from Perthshire to Berkshire and Sussex to South Armagh, the candidates will go on to compete in the final at Corinthia London on 13 January where they will serve high-profile guests from across the hospitality sector. Winning […]
Gold Service Scholarship 2025 to host biggest ever semi-final
The Gold Service Scholarship 2025 semi-final is set to be the biggest the competition has ever seen with 50 young front-of-house professionals making the next round. The quarter-finals took place in October at the Langham and Hotel Café Royal in London, where candidates were tested on their food and beverage knowledge through interviews, written assessments and a table layout test. Entrants came from across the […]
GSS 2025 Launch
Clare Smyth, Tom Kerridge, Fay Maschler, and TopJaw’s Jesse Burgess will be joined by Marc Socker and Eugenio Pirri speaking at an event marking the launch of this year’s Gold Service Scholarship. Taking place at 3pm on 2 September at the Corinthia London hotel, the event will bring together some of the leading names in the sector to […]
Interview: Alain Najar at EHL Lausanne
As part of the suite of unique learning opportunities offered to Team Gold members, our winning finalists from 2023 and 2024 recently embarked on a four-day educational programme at EHL Hospitality Business School in Lausanne, Switzerland, run by former senior lecturer Alain Najar and now consultant of his company called Najar Hospitality Consulting. Najar, himself […]
Five minutes with our 2024 Scholar, Scott Crowe
What brought you to the UK? How did you end up pursuing a career in hospitality? I left home at 19 to pursue my first passion: football. I studied and played in New York for a little over a year before deciding to go and visit family in Scotland for a short two-week holiday during […]
Scott Crowe named 2024 Gold Service Scholarship Scholar
Scott Crowe, a supervisor at Balmoral Hotel in Edinburgh, was announced as the 2024 Gold Service Scholarship Scholar last night at the annual awards ceremony at Claridge’s hotel in London. Crowe, who is originally from Australia, has been at Balmoral for five years, initially starting as a chef de rang before working his way up […]
The Gold Service Scholarship 2024 winning finalists revealed
The names of the eight front of house professionals who have reached the final of the 2024 Gold Service Scholarship have been revealed today. They come from a wide variety of hospitality establishments ranging from hotels, members clubs and standalone restaurants. The winning finalists are based across the UK – with Scotland, the South-west […]
The Gold Service Scholarship 2024 reveals successful semi-finalists
(Photo of our quarter finalists at the recent heat held at The Langham) The 40 food and beverage front-of-house professionals who have made it through to the semi-final of the 2024 Gold Service Scholarship have been revealed. The pool of candidates has come from across the industry, from pubs and private members’ clubs to Michelin-starred […]
Winning Finalists report back on their EHL study trip
Our 2020 and 2022 finalists spent four days at the EHL Hospitality Business School in Switzerland for a bespoke programme on improving restaurant performance, covering topics from cutting costs and waste, building sales and profits, and managing demand and capacity; to service design and innovation and value creation. Read more about the experience and what […]
Commended Finalist, Robin Tola, reports on his Stage at Waterside Inn
After being nominated one of the 8 Winning Finalists of the Gold Service Scholarship 2023 , I was awarded with several prizes that would allow me to learn and develop my professional career under several aspects. One of them was to spend a week of Stage in one of the iconic Restaurants across the United […]