Award for cafe

Owners of an iconic roadside cafe hope its latest award - for how it treats its employees - will encourage more people into the staff-starved industry nationwide.

Scotland’s iconic roadside cafe The Real Food Café in Tyndrum has received a top 30 listing in The Best Places to Work in Hospitality’ awards, run by The Caterer magazine.

Companies are recommended by their employees who answer four‘killer questions’and share what’s important to them at work and rate well their employer is delivering on that goal.

The business received an exceptional score of 92 per cent in response to those questions.

Read Food Cafe owner Sarah Heward said:“the Real Food Café has won some very prestigious awards for our food, customer service and overall business, all of which we are proud of.

“For almost 20 years, we have been driven not only by our mission to serve customers great food of the highest standard, but our vision of becoming one of the best employer brands in Scotland.

“We have worked hard to build our reputation by taking care of our team, suppliers and focussing on authenticity; being kind, working hard and building a strong culture of warmth, friendliness and inclusivity.

“This award is solely focused on our team and the leadership of that team and this win is for my husband Alan Mccolm who leads the people side of the business and his management team headed up by Charles Mair our operations director.

“I am bursting with pride that our team have validated his strategy and the consistent and sometimes challenging work he has led over the past decade to reach this point.

“Sadly, hospitality generally has a poor reputation as an employer which is a significant disadvantage to the sector particularly in a very tight labour market.

“Initiatives like this from The Caterer are great because they help highlight that there are some companies doing exceptional work and which are great places to work in our wonderful industry.”