In September 2017 Conrad Centennial Singapore replaced its small pool-side serving kiosk with a permanent glass box. Since this structure is big enough to cater to up to 300 people for a cocktail or stand-up event, it instantly paid for its installation – and guests at any function inside the box have the added pleasure of looking out, through the all-glass walls, at people swimming in the Olympic-sized pool immediately outside. The box, and pool, are on the fourth floor outside terrace of the 31-floor hotel.
Heinrich Grafe, general manager of the 507-room hotel, wanted to update catering supplies at the same time as the glass box was installed. This was all the more relevant as the hotel manages catering for government and other important events at a nearby heritage venue.
The hotel previously had been using china plates with clips to hold drinking glasses. They chose, instead, oval plates with prominent cut-out slots on one side that hold the bowls of stemmed glasses. The plates are 10 inches long, and they stack neatly.
“I am very pleased with them,” Grafe said. “Set up, one on top of another, in readiness for food service, they look good. Guests can easily pick one up and insert a glass. Servers do not have the same number of spilled and broken glasses as before and, overall, it is all much more efficient.”