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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Team Gold makes a study trip to the Mosel
July saw the 2023 scholarship alumni, including Scholar Jupiter Humphrey-Bishop and some of the GSS trustees, make a study trip to Germany’s Mosel
Interview: Paul Jackson from Claridge’s shares his views on service
Luxury brands and service aren’t about revolution, they’re about evolution, says Paul Jackson, general manager of Claridge’s. We spoke to him about
Team Gold enjoy three-day Porto study trip
Last month, the 2022 winning finalists, and Scholar Thomas Gammella, along with trustees Edward Griffiths, Sergio Rebecchi and Silvano Giraldin, jetted off to Symington Family Estates in Portugal’s Douro Valley for a special study