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31.03.20

A personal message

from the heart to the community

We all know that these are challenging times of which we’re reminded of constantly through various news channels and social media. It’s these times that as a community we need to come together more so than ever before.

We built The Chester Fields with the mindset that it would become a central hub for the community and I really hope that we’ve achieved that. If we have, it’s only because you have all made it happen. We sincerely thank you for that.

This week we’ve stepped out of our comfort zone by offering a home delivery service with a difference.

Importantly we’ve taken into consideration all the safety factors:

  • The restaurant has a 5 star hygiene rating and we follow all in-house procedures in order to maintain it.
  • Our Head Chef, Helder, comes in two days a week to prepare all the food into takeaway boxes and stores them correctly in our walk-in fridge. He is alone in this large separated area.
  • In the restaurant, I am alone to take calls for deliveries.
  • Aimee is separated from us and driving the deliveries.
  • Aimee wears safety gloves and wipes down each point of possible contamination such as steering wheel and boot latch.
  • We provide a pair of gloves with each meal for you to carry the food into your house from your porch.
  • If at any point there is a fear for contamination then all bacteria would be killed when the food is placed in the oven or freezer.

This is the reason why we’re not prepared to serve hot deliveries.

I speak from the heart when I say that we are doing this purely for the community and our intentions are only to cover our fixed costs and make no profit. You’ve all helped and supported us for the last 8 years and I know that you’ve done so because you enjoy the social space that we’ve provided and hopefully also for the award winning food & drink that we provide each day.

In order for us to still be there after we’ve gone through these challenging times, I’m asking you all as a favour to support our service so we are able to celebrate together when this is all over.

Find out more about our Home Delivery Servicefrom pub to porch

Competition

to say thank you

In return, I’m running a competition with a difference:

Anyone who orders home delivery with us will be put into a raffle where we will select 3 names randomly. The first 2 runners up will win dinner for 2 when we re-open. The third will win the following:

  • Dinner for 4 from our newly launched a la carte menu
  • A taxi to and from The Chester Fields (you’ll need it!)
  • Unlimited supply of wine/beer/alcohol to be consumed on the premises! (you’ll need that too!)
  • Unlimited supply of water for the table (you’ll definitely need that!)
  • One catering toilet roll per person signed by each team member (you may not need that!)
  • A welcome hug from one of our in-house Alpacas (bless them, they ain’t got a clue whats going on!)
  • A year’s supply of take-out disposable tin trays (hopefully these will be out of stock)
  • A box of disposable catering safety gloves (500 in a box!)
  • A 1 litre container of hand sanitiser (*if it’s available then!)
As much as I joke,  this is a true competition!

Here to help

community matters

I’ve been in touch with Councillor Margaret Parker and Jane Spence who have informed me of those in the village of Mickle Trafford who may need some help at some point. As a central hub for the community I want to reach out to anyone else who is in desperate need of anything. We are fortunate that as an operating business with our delivery service, we are still able to get hold of certain essential items that some residents urgently need but are unable to get or receive, such as toilet rolls. Just call us and we can see if we can help.

I thank you sincerely for reading this and for supporting us both past, present and future.

I also ask that if our service isn’t required that you please look after the struggling small local shops who really are being bullied out of business by the large supermarkets. One particular local chain returned profits of £2.2b last year and the CEO earned a salary of £1.4m plus a £3m bonus. Need I say any more!

Please stay safe and keep positive thoughts. This is not a black hole, it’s an unexpected tunnel that has light at the end of it.

Fondest regards,

Mark Jarvis

Managing Director