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BBC News
07-04-2025
- Entertainment
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Bath's first-ever waiter race raises money for charity
Waiters in Bath have been taking part in a Parisian tradition, racing against each other while trying to keep a tray working across the city's restaurants and cafes took turns carrying a tray with the traditional Sally Lunn buns from Bath and glasses of water across the famous Royal Herbert, CEO of organiser Bath Business Improvement District (BID) said the event on Monday raised funds for Hospitality Action - "a really good charity for people in the sector".Baker Richard Bertinet said it was a bit of "fun" on a sunny day that made Bath look "just as beautiful" as the south of France. "It's amazing isn't it," he said. "I've got my sunglasses on. Bath looks so beautiful today. It's fun, we're having fun." "They're racing but [also] waiting so they're not allowed to run otherwise they'll spill the drinks," Ms Herbert said ."They had two champagne flutes and a whisky glass on their tray with a Sally Lunn Bun - It's got to be about Bath."Everybody's raising funds for Hospitality Action, which is a really good charity for people in the hospitality sector who have found themselves in really difficult situations."Once points were deducted for spillages, the 2025 champions were winning team of waiters from The Pump Room jokingly said their secret to doing the race well was to drink Bath Spa water "every day".
BBC News
02-04-2025
- BBC News
Ask for Angela: Bath bars train staff to protect unsafe customers
Venues are taking part in training to improve the safety of vulnerable people in bars and nightclubs in Bath Business Improvement District (BID) has offered training to local nightclub managers to improve their understanding of the Ask for Angela Ask for Angela scheme allows people being harassed in pubs, clubs and bars to request help from staff by asking for Angela - a fictitious Mason, site director at Labyrinth Nightclub in Bath, said: "I've seen issues where people have been on dates and they were not comfortable." During a recent BBC investigation in London, half of the venues tested failed to respond when researchers asked for the research, BID offered training to 46 businesses in Herbert, Chief Executive at BID, said: "There's no point having this scheme if not everybody understands this scheme."Businesses will be encouraged to take this back to their own teams."Venues are encouraged to put up posters to make customers aware they can ask for Angela – for a number of different the national initiative started eight years ago, it was mainly aimed at women but it is now also used by men feeling under pressure to drink too much. The training also includes ways to spot predatory behaviour and drink Bessim, at Safer Business Network Training, said: "We could start getting a pattern of offenders because we have the times and locations and we are sharing that information with each other."Police will need that to catch these offenders."
