Edwards Bar and Dining Ltd is run by experienced restaurateurs that wanted to expand into a new marketplace with a prime location in the centre of Worcester.

With a desire to create a relaxed environment where people can get food and drink in elegant surroundings, they planned to get a bespoke the front bar for their new business to give more to their potential customers and beat the local competition.

Corporate Catering Solutions Ltd provide a professionally managed catering services to clients in Business and Industry within the Midlands.

This independent, family-owned business has the unique ability to accommodate each client’s individual requirements no matter the size; they work with range of companies that have from 20 to 1,000 staff members.

Nestled on the banks of river Wyre in Lancashire is The Cartford Inn, a stunning 17th century coaching inn that offers 14 boutique, individually styled luxury bedrooms and dining that has been praised by both The Good Food Guide and Michelin.

The inn boasts two dining Lounges; the fire lounge and the popular new river lounge with a dining terrace. Here customers can try locally sourced French and English cuisine or have a bar snack and local ales, including their own ‘giddy kipper’, by an open wood fire in the quiet bar lounge area.

Situated in the heart of Liverpool, Blackburne House Education Centre for Women is a unique institution that has been pioneering training for women in non-traditional areas of work for over thirty years.

This magnificent Grade 2 listed building also hosts an accredited conference centre and an award winning café bar that serves locally sourced food.

Blackburne House wanted to prove its commitment to quality by bringing the Café bar up-to-date with a new counter and kitchen technology to help with increased customer demand and to improving efficiency.

The Culpeper is a London pub that offers a mix of traditional British and French provincial cuisine situated close to Petticoat Lane market and Spitalfields market.

Taking its name from the 16th century botanist Thomas Culpeper, it features a unique rooftop vegetable farm that supplies both the restaurant and herbal tinctures for cocktails at the bar.

To compete with stiff competition and offer more to the customer The Culpeper knew they needed to pull out all the stops and get a complete refurbishment, including a brand new kitchen.

Park Resorts are a nation-wide and widely-recognised brand in the UK, specialising in providing and hiring out caravan parks, with 41 locations spanning across 2,400 acres in the UK. Known for their parks near the sea-side, the resorts are primarily located on the south and east coasts of England, with a few locations also in Scotland, Wales, and the Isle of Wight. The resorts see over 760,000 rental guests at their parks every year!

Based in Hemel Hempstead and employing just under 1,800 people, Park Resorts are a multi-million pound turnover business and have gone from strength to strength in the 13 years since they were established by private equity firm CBPE.

Chilli Banana are a well-established and well-respected chain of Thai restaurants in the North West of England, with restaurants in Liverpool, Wilmslow, and Macclesfield and are known for their excellent Thai food and customer service.

Their 75-cover Wilmslow restaurant has a lounge, bar, and also provides takeaway services. Run by husband and wife duo Steven and May Wakefield, the Chilli Banana brand has become a franchise, with the two other premises (Liverpool and Macclesfield) run by individual restaurant operators.

Johnson Reed are delighted to announce the opening of a new restaurant and cafe bar in Derby, called Seven.

Based in the iPro stadium, home of Derby County FC, and focusing on “modern British” food, Seven comprises a 100-cover restaurant, plus space for private dining.

We have been involved with Seven for a little while, helping to finance their launch and all equipment based costs including catering, furniture, fixtures and fittings, a sound system, security system, and EPOS.

The Marketplace Fish Bar is a well-established father and son operation, having been traded in the family for 30 years, and has an excellent reputation locally for incredible food and excellent customer service. The restaurant has recently undergone a full refurbishment, and now looks stunning!

We were approached by The Marketplace to help them get equipment finance for a new frying range to help continue making the renowned food, and to help the owners pay for the premesis refurbishment, rather than having to fork out upfront cash lumps for equipment. By using leasing, The Marketplace can use their operational budget to pay for the equipment over a fixed period of time, rather than having to pay upfront. This also gives some pretty great tax benefits!

When it comes to food preparation, having sub-standard processing equipment can often lead to sub-standard food, and in some cases can even present a danger to its operators and customers.

So when we were asked by a locally-renowned butchers in Dudley to help provide finance for a new state-of-the-art mincing machine, we knew how important it was that this butcher could get the new equipment needed, and in a timely fashion.