We held a small award ceremony to congratulate Karen. Her certificate was awarded to her by Nicola Collins from Chichester College and Andrew Sparsis, Managing Director of Proto Restaurant Group.

We are all very proud of Karen for doing so well and working hard in order to gain the qualification. Karen has worked extremely hard and has excelled considering she could not even use a computer before she started her NVQ.  We do have another six employees who are near completion also of their NVQ’s and we will keep you posted with their progress.

You many already know that Proto Restaurant Group – award-winning restaurants in Worthing, West Sussex, take staff training very seriously and we invest in our staff by keeping them at the top of their trade, which in turn ensures our restaurant constantly delivers an exceptional service for you, our customers. You can read about our other training stories by clicking here.

Proto Restaurant Group awards high achiever"

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.

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.