Merry Merry Christmas to all of our fantastic staff and clients!

We would like to thank all of our chefs, front and back of house staff for their professionalism, hard work and cooperation in what has been another busy year of growth. We have now supplied into Scotland and supported clients as far away as the French Alps and look forward to pushing on in the New Year.

It is not only the business that has grown but we have grown in numbers too…..we would like congratulate Melika and her partner Nick on the birth of their daughter Gia who has was born Monday 11th November (not that it’s stopped her from coming in to the office to check on proceedings!) Dean and Lizzie have also had the recent pleasure of welcoming their second child in to the world! Congratulations to the Adkins family on the birth of their little girl Vivienne Rae who entered the world on Friday 13th December.

For those of you working over the Christmas period please contact Christine on the office number for any issues or queries. Liam and Ashleigh will also be contactable if you urgently need to speak to somebody. Payroll dates have been published on our Facebook page and will be re posted in the next few days so please take note. Susan, as ever is the contact for time sheets. Please send your hours to her direct at susan@adkinscheurfi.co.uk, thank you.

We are looking forward to organising for big things in the roaring (20)20’s and wish you and your families all the best….

Dean, Melika and the team

Fantastic to be featured in this quarter’s Sage ‘What’s On’ guide as an extremely proud corporate partner of The Sage Gateshead

Please follow the link to read the article

https://sagegateshead.com/news-from-our-corporate-partners-adkins-and-cheurfi/

Free Health and Hygiene Training now available……

At Adkins and Cheurfi we take Health and Hygiene seriously. We are pleased to announce that we will now be running free training sessions from our office every Wednesday 9am-11am.

We offer the following certificates which you can print and take home at the end of the session:

• Allergen training
• Food Safety Level 2
• Food Safety Level 3

Each session takes between 30 and 40 minutes to complete. Please remember that by industry standards your certificates are only valid for three years max. It is important for everybody to stay up to date with the relevant allergen and food safety rules when working with food, especially in the education and care sectors.

You will need to book your session to guarantee your space. To do this call Christine on 0191 516 6118. We look forward to seeing you soon.

Free Health and Hygiene Training….just one of the perks of working for Adkins and Cheurfi Recruitment

If you would like to learn more about how to complete a DBS certificate we can also offer you advice on this topic. It’s good to talk.

Autumn is in the air, the dark night’s are back and Halloween is just around the corner….

We would like to extend our thanks to all our chefs, front of house and kitchen assistants for their hard work during what was a record breaking summer. We received excellent feedback from clients and supplied our furthest client to date, in the French Alps! If anyone would be interested in taking work during the ski season this winter then give the office a call.

Well we can’t actually believe it but the time has come to say a big goodbye to Melika as she leaves the office this Friday to begin her maternity leave. Melika is expecting a baby girl at the beginning of November and we all wish her good luck. While Melika relaxes at home with her new born (jokes) Dean will be managing all her clients. Please consider him your point of contact in this department. Melika expects to return to work in February 2020 but will keep us on our toes with surprise visits to the office throughout the winter.

Unfortunately Melika misses the annual Adkins and Cheufi Pumpkin Carving Competition which will take place on Thursday, 31st October. We know you are all in suspense to see whether Christine will defend her title; check out Facebook on the day to place your vote. Chefs, feel free to show off your knife skills and post examples of your own handiwork in the comments….

Now, as we know you are aware it won’t be long before Christmas arrives. Take this time to think about your Christmas availability and we will try to get the period organised as early as possible. Ashleigh will be sorting out her Christmas and New Year events in the next few weeks and will have some dates for your diary. Liam continues to supply local pub and hotel clients in the area and Christine is the lady to speak to regarding care, education and industrial kitchen work. Let us know if you want work on Christmas Day etc.. so that we can get you the shifts you want with plenty of notice.

That’s all the news we have for now, thanks again for your professionalism and hard work

from everyone at Adkins and Cheurfi Recruitment

We would like to thank all those who bought tickets for our Foundation of Light Raffle which was drawn live on Wednesday 11th September. We raised a whopping £198!!!

The winners are….

• Dan Martin – Food Hamper, Mackem Dictionary and tickets to The Sage, Gateshead
• Neil Maxwell – Veuve Champagne
• Norman Hogg – Selection of wines
• Deborah Layfield – Mackem Dictionary
• Alex Haywood – NUFC tickets
• Joe Banalli – four ball golf at Matfen Hall
• Matthew Hogg – Mackem Dictionary

Call 0191 516 6118 to claim your prize if you haven’t already received it.

The Foundation of Light is the charitable arm of SAFC. Based at the newly built Beacon of Light the Foundation utilises the power of sports, particularly football to educate, empower and engage the people of Wearside for a brighter future.

We appreciate your support! Watch this space for our next fundraising event which involves the Stadium of Light, a sleeping bag and a torch…..

We hope you have all been enjoying the warmer weather and thought we would give you some news about how Summer 2019 is shaping up:

Firstly we would like to share some lovely news and congratulate Melika on the announcement that she will be expecting her 1st child with fiance Nick, in November this year. We can all look forward to a mini Melika terrorising the office in the near future, meaning Dean will have one more Cheurfi to answer to….

Following our first mini heatwave of the year… the crazy season for all things hospitality has well and truly arrived. We are proud to be supporting some major new clients with their events and have had great feedback about our chefs, front of house and kitchen porters. Ashleigh continues to work hard with her fantastic team of events staff and the next few months promise to be intense.

Dean and Melika continue to supply the strongest chefs in the North to hotels and restaurants from Scotland down to Yorkshire. If you know a talented chef with a strong work ethic then put them in touch with us and you could receive a referral fee in time for payday.

Liam has been busy with permanent placements aplenty and has grown his network of local clients successfully. If you are interested in temp chef work in Newcastle, Sunderland or Durham then he is your man.

Christine continues to supply chefs and catering assistants in to the care, education and industrial sector. To compliment the catering side of things we now supply cleaning staff to a number of businesses. Demand is increasing week by week and again the coming months look busy.

We have recently partnered with the Foundation of Light and will be raising money for Alzheimer’s.  The Foundation, based at the newly built Beacon of Light offer a range of programs which directly benefit the local community right here on Wearside. Schemes helping people get back in to work, improve their mental and physical health run weekly. We will continue our ongoing support for local efforts raising money for people who suffer from Alzheimer’s and their families. We look forward to keeping you involved with our schedule of fundraising efforts, details to be announced.

We extend our thanks for all your hard work, consistency and professional and look forward to a rewarding summer season. If you have any photos you would like to share of your dishes, your colleagues or any big events you have worked then please email them to christine@adkinscheurfi.co.uk. We would love to have a look!

Dean, Melika and the team

Autumn News

Where to begin? There is so much going in this Autumn that it is hard to know where to start.

Let’s begin by welcoming Ashleigh Pinder to the team. Ashleigh has extensive experience as a Front of House Consultant down in the Big Smoke and is keen to test her skills in the North East market. She has staffed more major events than you can shake a stick at, from Cheltenham Racecourse to the 02 Arena. She will be out and about meeting clients and candidates alike in the run up to Christmas and you can contact her on 0191 516 6118 or email ashleigh@adkinscheurfi.co.uk.

Ashleigh’s arrival comes at a pivotal time for the business as we enter the final quarter of a record year. As ever we are eternally grateful to all our hard working chefs, GA’s, waiting and bar staff for elevating our reputation among our clients. We are taking the opportunity over the next fortnight to regroup and are working hard in the office to ensure we all enjoy a prosperous Christmas. Dean and Melika continue to handle the hotel and restaurant chef bookings with support from Liam Hogg. Christine is heading up the contract catering, education and care division and Susan Walton is the your point of contact for any payroll queries. Ashleigh will deal exclusively with Front of House.

Dean, Melika and Liam will be attending the NECTA Young Chef of the Year 2018 at the Lancastrian Suite, Federation Brewery on 11th October. This event gets better every year and we look forward to meeting some of the brightest emerging culinary talent the region has to offer. Pop along to say hello and let us know what you are up to!

After Young Chef of the Year we will be holding our own (slightly less prestigious) competition on Facebook. It involves both knife skills and food…that right’s we are holding our Adkins and Cheurfi Pumpkin Carving Competition. Check out our Facebook page in the run up to Halloween to see who, in the office, takes the crown. Then it is over to you to submit your best Halloween inspired creations from carved pumpkin to pumpkin ravioli, we want to see your efforts….with the winner of a spooktacular prize to be announced on All Hallow’s Eve.

Thank you for reading and we look forward to another hectic quarter with your continued support.

Dean and Melika

Happy Birthday to Us!!!!

Two years ago we officially launched Adkins and Cheurfi from a tiny office with a phone, a lap top and not much else. It is great to see how far we have come in only 24 months. Dean and Melika would like to personally thank our chefs, waiting staff, bar staff, catering assistants and everybody else for your unwavering support, professionalism and hard work. As you are no doubt aware we continue to grow and we look forward to expanding further into Yorkshire and Scotland in the coming months. We hope to celebrate many more milestones with you guys. Happy Birthday!!!

So what has been happening with us? For those of you who watched the Newcastle v Chelsea game recently at St James Park….did you see anything you recognised? We were thrilled to spot our branding on TV in the closest brush with Premier League Football Adkins is likely to have. Take a look and see for yourself:

As well as new advertising partnership with Newcastle United we have also signed up with Sun FM radio to increase awareness of our business across Tyne and Wear. So next time you are in the car on your way to work and the ad break starts on Sun FM….don’t change the station, listen out for our new jingle and let us know what you think.

In other news Christine returns to the office this week to concentrate on all things contract catering. All schools, care homes, industrial and commercial sites fall under her remit and you can catch her any day except Wednesday if you would like to put your name forward. Don’t let this Indian summer fool you. The kids go back to school this week and it will be Halloween before you can say BOO, we expect to be very busy supplying catering staff in this department.

Dean and Melika, fresh from a jaunt to Thirsk races are working on the temp side of things together over the next few months. Luckily Liam is excelling in the challenging world of hospitality recruitment, give him a call if you would like to refer a good chef for work and earn yourself £25. No doubt we will see more additions to the team in the near future in our larger office.  Speaking of the office, you now have no excuse not to stop by and say hello. With the road works a thing of the past and the opening of the impressive Spire bridge now connecting us to the other side of Sunderland, we are more accessible than ever. Please call in to complete some refresher training, get some more items of uniform or simply have a chat, we love your visits. You can find us in F1 at the Business Innovation Centre, Sunderland.

Well, that concludes our birthday news. Thank you to each and every one of you again for helping us achieve our goals. Long may it continue.

Dean and Melika xxx