The Best Places to Work in Hospitality awards identify and showcase the Top 30 operators who lead the way in people engagement and workplace culture.

Now in their tenth year, the awards are a celebration of employment best practice, featuring companies large and small, established and entrepreneurial, and holding them up as exemplars in employee engagement.

In 2024, the Best Places to Work in Hospitality top 30 will highlight those organisations that are delivering on what really matters, as well as checking engagement levels and identifying the key areas for retaining employees.

The top 30 list is not influenced by leaders, operators or marketing. The companies are recommended by their own employees, who answer the ultimate five ‘killer’ questions, as well as identifying what’s important to them at work and how well their employer is delivering on that goal.

The survey outcomes will provide essential information to inform strategy in the continuing ‘war for talent’, helping you to employ and retain the people required to deliver your services and to support a positive future.

Entries for this year's event are now closed. You can register your interest for 2025 here.

BOOST EMPLOYER BRAND
Attract, engage, and retain the best talent

UNIQUE EMPLOYEE SURVEY
Revealing industry insights and benchmarking against other entrants

UNDERSTAND YOUR PEOPLE
Identify the factors that truly motivate your people

INDUSTRY RECOGNITION
Become an employer of choice

STRATEGIC, PRACTICAL SOLUTIONS
Identify strategies to boost your people plan and deliver business results
Register your interest for 2025

A partnership between The Caterer and workplace culture experts Korero, proudly sponsored by Umbrella Training.

WHAT DO PAST ENTRANTS HAVE TO SAY?

We found this a really useful process last year. It was a great opportunity to engage with our colleagues and hear their views. We have incorporated their feedback into our planning for this year.

Vicky Freeman director of people and training Thomas Franks

Achieving 6th place in 2019 has been a proud moment for Aloft Liverpool and has spurred our team on to deepen our people agenda with a dynamic approach. Our management team are now at the stage where they are asking what’s next and how can we make our team become even more engaged within their roles.

Takis Melitsiotis general manager Aloft Liverpool

Winning the award cemented our belief that we were heading in the right direction. Retention and recruitment figures say so too, so we will keep doing what we’re doing.

Jo Freeman head of brand Paris House Restaurant

Seeing the difference in perception of long-term staff compared to newer staff was really interesting and opened up areas where we have subsequently communicated our culture better.

Josh Blinston Jones head of people The Palomar

We have always strived to be the best employers we can be. We entered to learn more, improve ourselves, and to attract people to our team.

Kieran Waite founder Season + Taste

I think the survey was really good, and I liked that we were reminded that we needed more responses, so communication was great!

Josh Chadwick general manager The Tawny