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From A to BBQ - A guide to hygienic al fresco dining at your event
As the caterer, however, it is up to you to ensure that the food products you serve to visitors are safe, so here are a few helpful tips to ensure that your guests enjoy your barbecue.
Food for thought – Catering for a summer Festival?
Music tourism in the UK generates billions for the economy. That’s not just ticket sales, but transport, outdoor goods and perhaps most importantly food and drink. Find out more about how the catering industry is capitalising on festival fever.
Thumbs up from customers for our spacious new premises
We’re already feeling the benefit of the bigger space and state of the art facilities at our new London HQ. Better yet, we’re not the only ones seeing the difference. Check out the positive response from our customers.
World renowned Riedel wine glasses now available to hire at Allens
We are delighted to announce Allens Catering Equipment and Furniture Hire’s association in providing this prestigious glassware range to the hospitality and event industry. Find out more right here.
3 Cool Refreshment Ideas for Hot Summer Events
If you’re planning a summer event, Allens Hire has ideas for keeping your congregation cool and refreshed. Here are 3 of the best:
Angus Memorial Pancake Day
Kirsty from our Southampton Depot picked up the Winner's Plaque for the inaugural Angus Memorial Pancake Day.
The Do’s and Don’ts of a Wonderful Wedding Speech
We can’t write it for you, but we’ve collected some of our favourite tips for writing a great speech, which could help you along the way.
Boosting Your Brand: 5 ways to stand out at a conference
Here are five top tips to help your brand to get noticed at a conference, engage with prospective customers, clients and collaborators and, most importantly, be remembered.
The last minute wedding day checklist
Your big day is just around the corner and you’re pretty sure you’ve got all your bases covered when it comes to organising everything – except just like that feeling we get when we’re going on holiday, there’s something niggling at you. Could you have missed anything? The last thing anyone wants to do is forget an important detail on their big day, so with this in mind, we’ve put together a last minute wedding day checklist to help make sure you don’t forget those finer details that make such a big difference.
5 fun ways to make a Great British rehearsal dinner happen
Rehearsal dinners have long been a very American concept, but plenty of British nearly-weds are getting in on the act and there are plenty of good reasons to do so.
The rehearsal dinner provides the various members of the wedding party with the opportunity to get acquainted before the big day. This is obviously important in the States, where families can be spread across a huge country. Still, the modern UK family could be fairly well split up too and in-laws might never have met before the wedding celebrations.
