Corporate Cuisine York

‘Corporate Cuisine York’ was created in 2006 as a joint venture between Hilary Finney – Harmony House and Food Solutions, and Gail Carter - Business Support Services - and offers a range of workshops and courses to fulfil client/individual requirements.

Hilary Finney holds a Diploma from the Cordon Bleu School of Cookery in London, professional qualifications from The Hotel, Catering & Institutional Management Association, Intermediate Certificate in food hygiene from the Royal Institute of Public Health & hygiene, and a City & Guilds certificate in teaching adult education.

Hilary started her career at the Holbeck Hall Hotel in Scarborough as 3rd chef, before being employed by Bateman, now Compass Catering, managing staff restaurants and events for many companies in the City of London and then managing the catering for ICL in Wakefield and Wendy Wools in Guiseley. Food Solutions was founded in 1986 under the name of Blue Ribbon and has been privileged to look after events for Defra, BMW, York University & Innovations Centre, British Sugar, NHS, Dyslexia Institute, IOD, YPI, CLA, NFU, Barclays and Yorkshire banks amongst others. Hilary is also honoured to work at Carlton Towers for the Duke of Norfolk, Hovingham Hall, Burton Agnes Hall, Lythe Castle, Selby Abbey, Yorkshire Gents Cricket Club and York Medical Society. Hilary has also spent many years teaching adult education courses.

Harmony House was bought in 2006 and works together with Food Solutions to provide solutions and support for food and hospitality including workshops, courses, demonstrations, residential courses etc.

Gail Carter developed her decisiveness and positive approach whilst working as a British Airways air stewardess in the 1980s. The lessons Gail learnt complemented her varied experience of how businesses and organisations operate. Gail’s skills were further enhanced whilst working at Momentum Consultants, a management consultancy which provided business culture change training/coaching and competency awareness. Gail continued to grow and learn and this made her an astute observer of commercial trends and she identified the need for a new type of business!