Sunquick joins hands with the National Bartenders Competition 2016
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The hospitality industry of Sri Lanka is getting ready to experience and enjoy the creativeness and innovations of bartenders in Sri Lanka, on 22nd July 2016 at Waters Edge. The competition has been an annual event for the past 24 years.
The Ceylon Hotel School Graduates Association, together with the Sri Lanka Institute of Tourism and Hotel Management and Tourist Hotels Association, are the principal organisers of the National Bartenders Competition 2016.
The joint sponsors of the event are, Imperial Beverages (Pvt.) Ltd, Lion Brewery and Sunquick of Scan Products.
The Bartenders Competition has been ingrained into the Cocktail industry today and it is a popular event worldwide. This type of competition can have a great impact on the standards of the local food and beverage sector and its enhancement in the international arena. The 2016 competition is being held in 8 Regions as shown below.
The Colombo Hotel School competition was held on the 1st of June at the Sri Lanka Institute of Tourism and Hotel Management while the Negombo regional competition was held on the 13th of June at the Club Palm Bay Hotel. The Colombo regional competition was hosted at the Ramada on the 15th of June with the Earl’s Regency hosting the regional competition in Kandy on the 20th of June. Competitions yet to be held are those in the Cultural Triangle, Passikudah, Down South and Deep-Down South which will be held at the Habarana Village, Amaya Beach Hotel, Eden Resort & Spa and the Heritance Hotel in Ahungalla respectively.
A Seminar and Competition is held in each region. The morning session is an enhancement of Beverage knowledge and how to create one’s own beverage designs. In the afternoon it is a chance for innovation seeing our Bartenders create their own ideas with beverages. Sunquick plays an important role in this exercise.
The organizers began the preliminary competition on the 1st of June 2016 and their schedule is to cover eight major regions in the country, giving opportunities to a wide spectrum of bartenders. The lucky winners at the Grand Final will get the chance to represent Sri Lanka at the International Bartenders Competition 2016 and Asia Pacific Competition in Singapore.