The Rising Star of the Year award is an individual award and recognises the employee owner who has shown the most commitment and improvement during the year. To qualify for the Rising Star, the employee owner has to have been a General Manager for less than two full seasons.
Alex is the General Manager of the Imperial Hotel, Ilfracombe and for those of you who stayed at the Imperial Hotel in 2021 and got to know Alex, you will no doubt agree that Alex deserves this recognition. This award will be celebrated by those guests who know him but also by his colleagues as Alex is a very popular figure within Leisureplex and rightly so!
If it could go wrong last year, it was going to go wrong at the Imperial. From linen shortages, food shortages, beer shortages and team shortages, Alex faced them all and the biggest compliment we can give is that you would hardly have noticed. If he wasn’t washing towels at home, he was at the supermarket buying supplies and if he wasn’t helping the chef’s in the kitchen, he was out serving tables in the restaurant. Alex did it all in 2021.
Alex says that he is now refreshed after his break and ready for the 2022 season but hopes that it’s easier than 2021 – and this is something that we can all certainly agree with. Well done Alex!