It's a sporting life
Stephen McManus, managing director of Leisure Services Division Ring & Brymer/Town& County/Gilmour & Pether, reveals all
1. What was your best subject at school?
English
2. What was your first job?
Working in a petrol station
3. What was your first job in catering?
Working as a waiter in a restaurant in Cobham, Surrey
4. What do you have for breakfast?
Two cups of coffee
5. What do you do to relax?
Watch sports and play with my children
6. Which is your favourite restaurant?
Café Royal Grill Room
7. What is your favourite drink?
Champagne
8. What ingredient do you hate the most?
Too much garlic
9. What do you always carry with you?
My Amex card
10. How would you best describe your desk?
Always full
11. Which person in catering have you most admired?
Lord Forte
12. Which person gave you the greatest inspiration?
Willy Bauer - my general manager at Grosvenor House
13. Cast away on a desert island, what luxury would you take?
A radio
14. What daily newspapers do you read?
The Times and the Daily Express
15. If not yourself, who would you rather had been?
Ian Botham or Jack Charlton
16. If you hadn't gone into catering, where do you think you would be now?
Working for a city finance house
17. Describe your ultimate nightmare?
The thought of losing my diary
18. Where and when was your last holiday?
Two weeks in Portugal last summer
19. Tell us a secret…
I'm always on a diet
20. What irritates you most about hotels?
Forgetting my wake-up call
21. When was the last time you had a hamburger?
Two weeks ago in McDonald's
