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10 out of 10 for Glee 2016 from garden centre owners and buyers
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Hot weather drives sales down in garden centres
HTA Marketing Forum - Maximising Your Potential
Bradford garden centre proves a little bit of charity goes a long way
GardenSite wins 'Best Online Garden Retail Buying Team'
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Wyevale Nurseries sees 45% increase from garden design sector
Great British Cards raise £18,000 for industry charities
Woodlodge raises £1,000 for Greenfingers Charity with fire pit raffle
Winner of Squire's competition gets £500 worth of plants
Nursery Growing Supervisor
Grounds Maintenance Operative
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Garden Centre Seasonal Manager, Christmas & Furniture
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Onions and Christmas spuds outsell winter veg
Bulb planting and houseplant care drive growing media sales
Large sales jumps for Violas and Primulas
HTA Garden Futures Conference and Dinner: ‘Business Agility in a Disruptive World’
Bestsellers Top 50 charts every week
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GTN's Greatest Awards 2016
All the latest news from the world of garden centre catering
Celebrating 15 years of Fresh Flavours at Bents
lunch! 2016: The UK’s biggest food-to-go show returns
New catering manager at Stewarts Garden Centre
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Celebrating 15 years of Fresh Flavours at Bents


The Fresh Approach Restaurant at Bents Garden & Home has celebrated many achievements over the years, but 2016 marks one of its most significant milestones; its 15 year anniversary.

To celebrate the occasion a giant home-made cake was cut and shared with customers, along with celebratory glasses of bucks fizz.  And Bents’ famous scones, which are still made to a secret recipe with over 2000 sold per week, were available throughout the day at 2001 prices.

Says Matthew Bent, Managing Director at Bents Garden & Home:  “Where has the time gone?  It seems like no time at all since we were making plans for our new restaurant and now here we are already celebrating its 15th anniversary.  We are hugely proud of the Fresh Approach Restaurant and the fantastic team who work tirelessly to deliver what we think is the best food and service in the industry!”

When it opened in September 2001 the Fresh Approach Restaurant was unlike anything seen in a garden centre before; a £1m investment, 400 seat restaurant, offering only the freshest food all homemade on the premises.  This dedicated approach to garden centre dining has not only attracted many loyal customers but it also initiated major change throughout the industry.

It has gone on to become an award winning destination and now boasts at a brigade of 22 chefs and 60 front of house colleagues, all dedicated to providing a first class service to the now 900 seat restaurant.   It forms the centrepiece to Bents’ extensive dining offering which includes a further five dining options including: Café Lago, Caffe nel Verde, Tapas Bar and The Pet Place; in total providing over 1210 covers and serving an average monthly footfall of 110,000 customers.

The Fresh Approach Restaurant welcomes several regular customers, some of whom visit every day and have been doing so since the days of the Balcony Coffee Shop; the forerunner to The Fresh Approach Restaurant. 

Says Matthew:  “Our Balcony Coffee Shop was opened to sceptical comments within the industry but it soon established a reputation for quality homemade food, all freshly prepared on the premises with great customer service; all of which formed the building blocks for the Fresh Approach and are as important as ever as we celebrate our 15 year anniversary.”

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