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"Everyone
in the industry should have an online biography" commented
Peter & Colleen Grove, organisers of National Curry Week and
Curry Capital of Britain, after years of continually trying to find
information about top owners, chefs and entrepreneurs for news
articles over a period of years.
"We
suddenly realised that information on all the amazing people who done
so much to build up the Asian restaurant industry is slowly
disappearing and is not recorded anywhere," said Peter. As a
result of this realisation they are using the celebration of 200
years of the "Indian" restaurant in Britain in 2009 as a
target to produce a huge database of the top people in the industry
for the media and members of the public to refer to and enjoy.
Restaurant
owners, chefs and front of house managers and entrepreneurs all over
Britain are now being invited to request forms to complete for their
free entry into The Restaurant Hall of Fame which aims to record
biographies of of the important people past and present starting with
Sake Dean Mohamet in 1809 - the first man of curry.
The first
fifty biographies are already online at www.resthof.co.uk
and are being added to and amended daily. "It would be
terrible if the sacrifices and efforts of so many people were to
disappear so we hope that people in the industry will not only supply
their details but also information of those who have been in the
industry but are no longer with us", Peter explained.
Restaurant
Hall of Fame is the first dedicated "Who's Who" for the
restaurant industry and will not only be a mark of the personal
achievements of those in Britain's more than 9000 Asian restaurants
but also those who supply and service the industry. An abbreviated
version containing a brief entry for each biography will be published
in book form at the end of 2008 with readers having to refer to the
website for the full biography and photographs.
Information
forms can be obtained from 020 8399 4831 or email : groveint@aol.com
and details can be checked online at www.resthof.co.uk.
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