Peter Lederer

1. What was your best subject at school?

English

2. What was your first job?

Processing customer research

3. What was your first job in catering?

Serving at a bar in local pub

4. What do you normally have for breakfast?

Tea

5. What do you do to relax?

Drive my Caterham 7 along Scottish roads - quickly!

6. Which is your favourite restaurant?

Lock 16, Crinan Hotel, Crinan

7. What is your favourite drink?

Lagavulin, 16 years old

8. What ingredient do you hate most?

Tapioca

9. What do you always carry with you?

Pen and keys

10. How would you describe your desk?

Tidy

11. Which people in catering have you most admired?

Ian Munro, Ramón Pajares

12. Which person gave you the greatest inspiration?

Isadore Sharpe, of Four Seasons/Regent Hotels and Resorts

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

The radio for news

14 . What daily newspapers do you read?

The Scotsman, the Herald and the Courier

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

A Formula One team owner

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

Working as a psychologist

17. Describe your ultimate nightmare?

Having a nine-to-five job

18. Where and when was your last holiday?

The Keys, Florida, in November

19. Tell us a secret…

No, wait for the book

20. What irritates you most about hotels?

Service with no personality and stuffy hotels where you have to whisper

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

The last time my wife made them - they're the best