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Christmas at The Fish Factory

Thursday, October 29th, 2009

Christmas at The Fish Factory, Worthing

Dare we mention the ‘C’ word? Christmas is less than two months away and we are pleased to announce the launch of the new Fish Factory Christmas Menu. This limited edition Christmas menu is now available with unique dishes that our masterchefs have created especially for you.

Choose from exciting dishes such as Game Paté and Homemade Hunter Suet Pies. We have also invented a unique Pepper Sauce for our Yellow Fin Tuna which is exclusive to The Fish Factory. This dish is available for a limited time only. Don’t miss it! Yum yum

The best news of all is that for 3 courses, you only pay £15 and for 2 courses the price is £12.50. As you can imagine, with quality food at silly prices, we are getting booked up already. To see the full Fish Factory Christmans menu, click here. so to avoid disappointment, call 01903 207123 to reserve your Christmas table at The Fish Factory, Worthing.

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Proto Restaurant Group judge the Rotary Young Chef Competition

Thursday, October 22nd, 2009

Andrew Sparsis gives some top advice to aspiring chef

It seems that Masterchef is gripping the nation and that cooking is the latest craze – which is a good thing!

If you didn’t know about the Rotary Young Chef Competition, where have you been? This national competition (sponsored by Filippo Berio Olive Oil) is aimed at schools although any student under 18 may enter, and is designed to encourage kids to demonstrate their culinary skills in menu and budget planning, sourcing and purchasing ingredients, hygienically cooking and serving a healthy two or three course meal for two.

The Worthing heat is being judged by our very own Andy Sparsis and Stuart who is the head chef at The Fish Factory. This competition is in it’s second year and the next round is on Wednesday 4th November. After this, the winners and some runners up from the District event will go forward to a Regional event and from there to a prestigious National final.

All we can say is: Watch out Masterchef!

Cooking is great fun!

Good to see that young ladies are still cooking too!

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Proto Restaurant wins the Healthy Workplace Award 2009

Thursday, October 15th, 2009

Proto Restaurant Group

We’ve been celebrating since winning the prestigious Healthy Workplace Award on Saturday evening at The Worthing Business Awards 2009.

What a brilliant night! The evening was hosted by Fred Dinenage – you may know him from How 2 or ITV Meridian.

The whole evening was sponsored by Carpenter Box Accountants, and organised by the Worthing Herald. Louise James and Vaidas Butkus picked up their award from councillor Paul Yallop who represented the sponsors Worthing Borough Council. You can see Louise and Vaidas’ giving their winner’s speech by clicking here.

We would like to thank everyone that nominated us this year – it means a great deal. We look forward to seeing you all soon.

If you would like to read more about our training programme, click here.

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Worthing Business Awards – Good luck everyone!

Friday, October 9th, 2009

Worthing Business Award

We are crossing our fingers for tomorrow’s Worthing Business Awards. We have been shortlisted for the Healthy Workplace Award 2009. We have some tough competition though, as we are up against Worthing High School.

As you know, the Proto Restaurant Group takes health and safety very seriously. Back in July we announced that we had been featured in Gordon Brown’s Government Magazine, Chartered Institute of Environmental Health’s Magazine called “Trainer’s Exchange”. Trainer’s Exchange is a government magazine that is distributed to all the Councils in England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. Proto have been selected for being committed to managing one of the best trained and committed teams in the country due to our own in-house training school for all our restaurant staff. You can read the rest that blog entry by clicking here.

We wish all of Worthing’s shortlisted businesses the best of British at tomorrow’s award evening.