Hotels guests are becomingly increasingly demanding about the heritage, preparation and taste of their morning coffee. Hotels guests are becomingly increasingly demanding about the heritage, preparation and taste of their morning coffee.

Meet the Experts:

Tony Billingham, CEO, Boncafe Middle East LLC.
Boncafe Middle East is a specialist roaster of premium coffees and supplier of Bonice Tea Mixes, Bonchoco and Torani products, as well as domestic and commercial fully automatic and traditional Italian-style coffee machines and equipment. The company also operates a 24-hour service maintenance support and calibration service.

Robert Jones managing director, Coffee Planet.
Coffee Planet is one of the leading coffee roasters in the UAE with fully HACCP-certified facilities that roasts coffee from 20 countries around the world. Together with the distribution, installation and maintenance of fully equipped coffee equipment, Coffee Planet delivers food service solutions to customers such as hotels, offices, restaurants and airlines.

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Darya Yurkina marketing manager, La Marquise International.
La Marquise International has been supplying world leading Horeca brands to the UAE & GCC for the past 10 years. Its portfolio has a wide range of professional equipment, F&B products and ingredients for pastry, bakery and gelato brands such as La Cimbali, WMF, Pellini Caffe,MEC3, Barnier, IceTeam and Irinox. It also provides customers with full product support including 24/7 emergency equipment maintenance as well as professional training facilities and courses.

Andre Biedenkopf, director of sales and operations, Ronnefeldt Trading.
The Ronnefeldt Tea Company was founded 190 years ago and specialises in importing and blending high-quality leaf teas from all of the major tea-growing regions including India, Sri Lanka, China, Japan, Taiwan and Africa. Ronnefeldt is also the creator of the TeaMaster training programme, which endows the hotel industry with a well-rounded knowledge of tea and tea-culture.

Majid Zaman, Middle East beverages head, Unilever Food Solutions.
Unilever has worked in the food industry since the 1880s and is now home to some of the world’s favourite brands: Knorr, Hellmann’s, Lipton and more. Unilever Food Solution aims to provide hotels with ingredients that save precious preparation time in the kitchen, without compromising on flavour or flair and constantly provide ideas and inspiration that keep menus fresh and exciting. Its tea brand Lipton is supplied to businesses of all sizes, from independent restaurants through to hotels chains and contract caterers, across 74 countries.

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