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Casual Dining Design Awards 2015 opens call for entries

Casual Dining, the award winning trade event for the UK’s flourishing casual dining sector, is now accepting submissions for its prestigious 2015 Design Awards.

Reflecting the importance of design to successful casual dining operators – from conveying brand identity to creating ambiance and attracting/retaining custom – the awards will enjoy a prominent showcase at Casual Dining 2015, which returns to Business Design Centre in London next month on 25-26 February.

Design-AwardsThe deadline for award entries is 24 January, with selected design projects competing for the top spot in the following three categories: Best Designed Independent Restaurant, Best Designed Multiple Restaurant, and Best Designed Casual Dining Pub.

Projects will be judged on their innovation and uniqueness, brand consistency, impact, the degree to which the final design reflects the brief, and proven evidence of the success of the design/re-design in increasing revenue and/or customer satisfaction levels.

Casual Dining operators who have completed a design/re-design during the past 12 months are invited to enter the awards online at www.casualdiningshow.co.uk/design-entry.

The winners will be announced following a dedicated design panel session in the show’s Keynote Theatre on Wednesday 25 February.

“Restaurant design today is increasingly about understanding the customer as an individual and creating a comfortable dining experience,” says Simon Kincaid, associate director of Conran and Partners, one of last year’s judges.

Winners of Casual Dining’s 2014 Design Awards included:

  • Best Designed Independent Restaurant winner: Graze Bar, Brewery & Chophouse in Bath (operated by Bath Ales, designed by Simple Simon Designs)
  • Best Designed Multiple Restaurant winner: Vapiano with sites in Austria and Germany (operated by Vapiano Franchising International GmbH, designed by Matthew Thun, Milan)
  • Best Designed Casual Dining Pub winner: No 11 Pimlico Road, London (operated by Darwin & Wallace, designed by Buro Creative/Fusion DNA)

Casual Dining returns to the Business Design Centre, Islington, London, on Wednesday and Thursday 25-26 February 2015. To register for a free trade pass, please visit www.casualdiningshow.co.uk and quote priority code CDPR1 (www.eventdata.co.uk/Visitor/CasualDining.aspx?TrackingCode=CDPR1).

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Media enquiries & press pass requests to:
Emma-Louise Jones, Head of PR
t: +44 (0)1273 645134 e: ejones@divcom.co.uk
Website: www.divcom.co.uk
Twitter: www.twitter.com/DiversifiedUK
Facebook: www.facebook.com/DiversifiedUK

Exhibitor enquiries to:
Chris Brazier, Group Event Director
t: +44 (0)1273 645123 e: cbrazier@divcom.co.uk
Website: www.casualdiningshow.co.uk
Twitter: www.twitter.com/CasDiningShow

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Topics

  • Gastronomy

Categories

  • casual dining 2015
  • casual dining design awards
  • interior design
  • casual dining sector
  • brand identity
  • best designed independent restaurant
  • best designed casual dining pub
  • best designed multiple restaurant
  • restaurant design
  • pub design
  • design agencies
  • hospitality design
  • hotel restaurant design
  • food and drink design spaces
  • restaurant business

Notes:

Casual Dining was the first launch show (UK and international) in over five years to win ‘Best Tradeshow Exhibition under 2,000sq.m’ at the Association of Event Organisers’ Excellence Awards 2014.

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Diversified Communications UK Ltd (Diversified UK) is a fast growing trade event organiser and publisher based in Brighton, Peterborough, Leamington Spa, and Nailsworth, Glos. Diversified UK’s portfolio includes Casual Dining; lunch!; The Natural Food Show (part of Natural & Organic Products Europe); Nordic Organic Food Fair in Malmö, Sweden (co-located with Natural Products Scandinavia); camexpo; office*; SITS – The Service Desk & IT Support Show; Natural Products magazine; the Natural Beauty Yearbook; Geo Business; Ocean Business (including Offshore Survey Conference & Ocean Careers); MARELEC Marine Electromagnetics conference in Philadelphia, USA; Euro Bus Expo; Coach and Bus Live; Best of Britain & Ireland; Route One; and Coach Monthly. For more information, visit: www.divcom.co.uk

Diversified UK is part of Diversified Communications, a leading international media company providing market access, education and information through global, national and regional face-to-face events, eMedia, publications and television stations. Diversified serves a number of industries including: seafood, food service, natural and organic, healthcare, commercial marine, and business management. Based in Portland, Maine, USA, Diversified employs over 800 staff, with divisions in the Eastern United States, Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, India, Thailand and the United Kingdom. For more information, visit: www.divcom.com

Contacts

Emma-Louise Jones

Press contact Head of PR +44 (0)1273 645134

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