Catering for success at Milton Keynes Business Centre

After spending nearly 20 years in the hospitality industry, during which Theresa Collins learned a great deal by working at five star hotels at home and abroad, she felt it time to establish a business of her own. With the opening of the MKTWO business centre came a ground-floor opportunity to be her own boss and to share whatever potential success a thriving business centre right in the heart of Bletchley might bring.

 

Now, firmly established as Dad’s Café and Catering, Theresa’s venture is a favourite spot for many of the 100 or more guest businesses within this thriving business centre. Having spent time roaming the world as a hotel inspector immediately prior to settling in MKTWO, Theresa knows that attention to detail is paramount and has carried this attitude into her own new venture. Not only has she customised one of the industrial units to let within the complex to her own exacting standards but she has also brought with her a wealth of fresh ideas that marks out Dad’s Café as being different to other similar establishments. Knowing that the business centre includes meeting rooms used for conferences and training she offers a catering service for such gatherings and has even devised special menus for the popular breakfast business meetings that are becoming quite a feature at the business centre. It is probably just as well she likes to start the day early as successful breakfast meetings demand that everything needed is discretely put place in good time.

 

As well as providing an over-the-counter service within the main unit located in a solus site by the key entrance to the business centre, Theresa and her staff are kept busy delivering food and drink to satisfy the needs of boardroom and executive meetings throughout the complex. With its mix of many serviced offices and industrial units within the MKTWO business community it is hardly surprising that Dad’s Café has become something of a focal point for many of the hundreds of staff working on site and who look forward to seeing what culinary delights are given pride of place on Theresa’s ever-changing ‘Daily Special’ board. Although, naturally, most of the Café’s custom is derived from within the business centre it is by no means exclusively so as visitors increasingly remember it and call in when able and, calling on her own past events organising experience, she also promotes her own line of party menus for other venues.

 

Without a doubt Theresa’s Dad, in whose memory it takes its name, would be extremely proud of the business acumen displayed by his daughter. A Café is quite an inspired choice of business unit to have establish within a complex as large as the MKTWO business centre and is clearly much appreciated by the many guests located there.