Peter Webber

Peter Webber, group managing director of My Kinda Town, spills the beans

1. What was your best subject at school?

History

2. What was your first job?

Room service breakfast waiter

3. What was your first job in catering?

Receptionist - Metropole Hotel, Brighton

4. What do you normally have for breakfast?

Cereal, grapefruit juice, tea

5. What do you do to relax?

Walk, read

6. Which are your favourite restaurants?

Lameloise in France, and Chez Max, River Café and Mr Kong in London

7. What is your favourite drink?

Diet coke

8. What ingredient do you hate the most?

Sun-dried tomatoes

9. What do you always carry with you?

My front door key

10. How would you best describe your desk?

Very neat and tidy

11. Which people in catering have you most admired?

Michel and Albert Roux

12. Which person gave you the greatest inspiration?

Bob Payton

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

A walkman and my jazz tapes

14. What daily newspaper do you read?

The Times

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

Terence Conran

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

I would have always ended up in this business

17. Describe your ultimate nightmare?

Losing my appetite

18. Where and when was your last holiday?

December in Mallorca

19. Tell us a secret

I'm shy

20. What irritates you most about hotels?

A long queue at checkout time

21. When was the last time you had a hamburger?

Today at Henry J Bean's in Chelsea