Create-A-Smile

Create a Smile Pancake with banana eyes, strawberry nose and a tube of yogurt to create that smile at one of our favourite and long-established Bermudian casual restaurants - Paraquet.

Big Scream = Big Business

 Cinema City in Norwich has comfy seats, a decent restaurant and is switched on to special interest groups - Hard of Hearing, Dementia Friendly and Slackers Club (for students)

 Autism-Friendly, Toddler Time and Silver Screen for the over 60's @CinemaCityNrw

 and my favourite - Big Scream for parents and carers with babies under one year old!

Look after the special groups and the business keeps coming - cafes take note.

Great Cafes Hits 1,000

1,000 blog posts and going strong - cafes are doing just great throughout the UK.  We are busy working on new cafe feasibilities and improving existing operations for:

• Abbeys
• Businesses
• Castles
• Cathedrals
• Courts
• Distilleries
• Farm Attractions
• Farm Shops
• Galleries
• Garden Centres
• Libraries
• Museums
• Palaces
• Parks
• Racecourses
• Stately Homes
• Theatres
• Universities
• Venues
• Visitor Centres
• Zoos

Get in touch if we can help you.

Welcome Ian

Our new web site is live - check it out at www.turpinsmale.co.uk - with latest details of our clients, projects and Ian Doughty, our latest Director and Co-Owner recruit.  Ian, welcome to the UK's leading catering consultants.

Who needs Cocaine or Caffeine when you can have Chris on Cafés?

"It’s now 5.04 am and I have yet to sleep this night. I have 132 ideas, mostly now written on pieces of paper, drawn out on sheets of A4 and A3, jotted down in Notes on my mobile and yet still my brain will not rest.

It was a whirlwind tour of the fourth wave but I am cresting on my very own current of creativity. It was a menu of brick walls, exposed ceilings, handbags on string and cheese in drawers; container malls, concrete floors and graffiti walls; toasters on tables, letraset signs and corker cakes in colourful creative curls. Who could forget the smell of coffee roasting or the sight of pallets floating? The taste of a fougasse at Albion or a brownie at Paul Young’s?

It was inspiring, stimulating, exhilarating. I am buzzing with ideas – and some far removed from what we saw – and I think I only had 2 coffees. Think on this: I have had no sleep. I have lots of ideas.  My poor staff.

Thank you, Chris. And good morning."

Wonderful quote from recent London Cafe Tour participant Jane Cox, Owner

Glendoick Garden Centre, Restaurant & Food Library
Garden Centre Cafe of the Year 2009/10

Free London Cafe Tour

To celebrate 100,000 page views Great Cafes / Turpin Smale are offering four fortunate individuals a free London Cafe Tour on Monday 19th November 2012.  Starting at 10.30am in the City we will visit up to thirty of the best and brightest new cafes in central London.  Cake, coffees and cabs included and, if you feel it is a day well spent, a donation to charity would be nice.
Apply at chris.brown@turpinsmale.co.uk

Get out of the office enough?

A short video of our acclaimed London Cafe Tour - see what our clients say at http://greatcafes.blogspot.co.uk/p/london-cafe-tour-benefits.html

Keeping up with what's new?

A short video of our acclaimed London Cafe Tour - see what our clients say at http://greatcafes.blogspot.co.uk/p/london-cafe-tour-benefits.html

Birthdays - Our 24th & 1st

   

   

Turpin Smale is 24 years young this month and this blog is celebrating its 1st birthday.  How life has changed since 1988!

Our blog has reached over 50,000 page views and the cafe sector is just so dynamic - there is always someone, somewhere doing an even better, more quirky, tastier, more temptingly displayed cafe.  As a birthday treat for you all, check out our Boards on Pinterest:

• Design  http://pinterest.com/turpinsmale/great-cafes-design/
• Sandwiches  http://pinterest.com/turpinsmale/great-cafes-sandwiches/
• Hot Drinks  http://pinterest.com/turpinsmale/great-cafes-hot-drinks/
• Savouries  http://pinterest.com/turpinsmale/great-cafes-savouries/
• Fruit Display  http://pinterest.com/turpinsmale/great-cafes-fruit-display/
• Cake Display  http://pinterest.com/turpinsmale/great-cafes-cake-display/
• Cold Drinks  http://pinterest.com/turpinsmale/great-cafes-cold-drinks/
• Kids Food  http://pinterest.com/turpinsmale/great-cafes-kids/
• Humour  http://pinterest.com/turpinsmale/great-cafes-humour/