Introducing Team PKL! Part 1

A new year and some exciting new changes to the PKL Blog. For 2013 we are pleased to welcome a number of our project consultants and directors who will be contributing some of their expertise over the next 12 months in a series of guest blog posts.

We will be giving an insight as to what it takes to deliver some of our more complex projects, some of the challenges involved, the range of both temporary and permanent projects that PKL Group is involved in supplying and some of the things you might want to consider if you are thinking of installing either a temporary or permanent kitchen facility. In addition, they are here to answer any questions you may have regarding the installation of temporary or permanent modular catering facilities or any thoughts you may have regarding the provision of commercial foodservice facilities.  

Over the next two posts, and in no particular order, we would like to introduce some of the faces who will be contributing to the PKL Blog in the coming weeks and months.

Lee Vines – Sales and Marketing Director

Lee has more than 13 years of experience working at PKL and is in charge of all sales and marketing activity within the UK. 

Lee has a large amount of experience having worked within the foodservice industry for the past 18 years and previously held the position of Sales and Marketing Director at ServEquip. Lee has worked on a great many projects during his time at PKL, covering the delivery of temporary kitchen facilities, large scale permanent facilities, the contract hire of catering equipment and KitchenPods.

 

 John Robinson – Project Consultant

John is one of PKL’s most experienced project consultants and has worked within the foodservice industry for over 20 years. 

John specialises in the long term hire of temporary kitchens and has delivered a wide range of large scale projects for PKL, in particular for the MOD, the Prison Service and the higher education sector, while has also developed his own design, the “hotel kitchen” for hotels and restaurants undergoing refurbishments that need to continue their foodservice provision during this time.

 Dan Robinson – Event Sales Executive

Dan is relatively new to PKL, being with us for a year and a half and is the youngest member of the team. 

Dan specialises in providing temporary catering solutions to the event market, which includes standalone catering equipment, temporary kitchen units and pop up restaurants. Dan has successfully delivered temporary kitchens to a wide range of customers within the events market, including UK festivals, religious organisations, sporting events, cookery TV programmes, Christmas parties and corporate clients and organisations hosting parties and balls.

 Ed Lyons – Business Development Executive

Ed is also a relatively new member of the PKL team, joining the company nearly two years ago. 

Ed has a vast knowledge of foodservice provision within the education sector, both in terms of the requirements of kitchen and servery facilities, and how schools can go about gaining funding to install them.  Ed has worked on a number of projects to deliver permanent modular KitchenPods and Food Cubes, to a number of schools throughout the UK.

 See part 2 of out meet the team blog, coming in the next couple of days, to see who else will be contributing to our blog over the next year.