Mike Fellowes

1. What was your best subject at school?

Geography and PE

2. What was your first job?

Paperboy

3. What was your first job in catering?

Wine waiter

4. What do you normally have for breakfast?

Juice and cereals

5. What do you do to relax?

Motorcycling, skiing, guitar and drawing

6. Which is your favourite restaurant?

The Hunt House, Kilsby, Northants

7. What is your favourite drink?

Depending on the occasion, best bitter or Champagne

8. What ingredient do you hate most?

Coconut

9. What do you always carry with you?

My self-esteem

10. How would you best describe your desk?

A low priority

11. Which person in catering have you most admired?

Barry Gibbons (these days of Burger King fame)

12. Which person gave you the greatest inspiration?

My grandmother - who had a large influence on my childhood

13. Cast away on a desert island,what luxury would you take?

Guitar and sketch pad

14. What daily newspapers do you read?

None

15. If not yourself, who would you rather have been?

Steven Spielberg

16. If you hadn't gone into catering, where do you think you would be now?

A pilot

17. Describe your ultimate nightmare?

Being out of touch with the "sharp end" of the business

18. Where and when was your last holiday?

June this year to Disneyland, Paris

19. Tell us a secret…

As a young waiter, I once spilled cream down the back of a customer's jacket and never owned up to it

20. What irritates you most about hotels?

Snobbery - customers and staff alike

21. When did you last eat a hamburger?

About three months ago