JCDC bartenders' trophy retired to SuperClubs

Erwin Burton (right), director for the Food Trading Division, hands over the Grace, Kennedy Bartender of the year trophy to SuperClubs marketing executive, Bert Fowles. It was decided to retire the award to SuperClubs, who has copped the award for the past four years, at the annual Professional Culinary Competition organised by the Jamaica Cultural Development Commission.

FOR THE past five years Grace, Kennedy & Company sponsored the Bartenders Competition at the Jamaica Cultural Development Commission's Professional Culinary Show. And, every year during that period it was awarded to a bartender from the SuperClubs Group of hotels. In fact, for three consecutive years, from 1997 to 1999, Ms. Claudette Daley, a female bar supervisor at Trelawny Beach Hotel won the award.

Ms. Daley's creative use of avocado and carrot in the non-alcoholic beverage, Endangered Species won the award in 1999 affording her the opportunity to be part of the Jamaican Team that represented the island at the Taste of the Caribbean in Florida later in the year. Here she was awarded a silver medal and placed among the top five bartenders of the Caribbean.

In recognition of the achievement of Ms. Daley and her colleagues who kept the trophy in the SuperClubs Family for the past five years, it was decided to retire the trophy to SuperClubs this year. Erwin Burton, Director for the Food Trading Division of Grace, Kennedy, handed it over to the Marketing Executive, Bert Fowles at a brief ceremony at Grace's corporate headquarters.

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