Your customers will be the judges of Greatness.
As customer service and customer satisfaction are the keys to the ongoing success of garden centre catering, the winners of The Greatest Food & Drink Team awards will be decided by the number and quality of customer votes your teams receive before the closing date of September 7th 2025.
Your customers can vote online by scanning the QR code or you can get them to vote in store and then send completed voting forms to the GTN office for counting.
To get your customers voting, all you have to do is download the voting posters and voting forms artwork from the links below display them in your restaurant or coffee shop and add voting links into your websites and social media pages.
GTN's Greatest Food & Drink Team Awards Voting Poster
GTN's Greatest Food & Drink Team Awards Voting Forms
GTN's Greatest Food & Drink Team Awards Voting QR Code
Or, access the poster, voting forms and QR code via this dropbox link
As well as overall Greatest Food & Drink Team Awards for different sizes of garden centre catering operations there will be regional awards too. What better way to promote your Food & Drink offerings during the Autumn than with a GTN Greatest Awards win, especially as it will be thanks to your customers.
Customer voting is live now and runs until midnight on Sunday 7th September, when the votes will be counted in readiness for the presentations at Glee.
Do you serve The Greatest Garden Centre Afternoon Tea?
One of the most eagerly sought after catering awards that GTN ran in the past was for The Greatest Afternoon Tea Team. The judges really had a tough job going out and tasing them all!
This year, if you believe your team currently serve The Greatest Garden Centre Afternoon Tea, you have the opportunity of bringing your Afternoon Tea to Glee to be displayed on the “Feed Your Business Stage” and judged by a panel of experts who will decide an overall Afternoon Tea Team winner plus regional awards too. The judges will also be looking for The Greatest Garden Centre Scone, and The Greatest Garden Centre Traybake within the Afternoon Teas displayed. Both sweet and savoury Afternoon Teas can be entered.
The competition takes place at 3:00pm on Wednesday 17th September with the entered Afternoon Teas taking pride of place on the “Feed your Business Stage”. There will be a food prep area available for your team to compile your Afternoon Tea ready for display and judging.
To reserve your teams place in the display and be in with a chance of winning The Greatest Garden Centre Afternoon Tea Award please send an e-mail to Trevor@pottingshedpress.co.uk stating why you think your team should be part of the competition. Closing date for Afternoon Tea entries is Friday 5th September 2025.
Who has The Greatest Catering Support Team?
Every good garden centre Food & Drink operation is only as good as the back of house support they get from their Wash-up teams, their Marketing Teams and increasingly their EPOS teams.
This award is for The Greatest teams that keep it all going without ever being seen by the customers. For that reason, to enter your Catering Support Teams all you need to do is send an e-mail by Friday 5th September to trevor@pottingshedpress.co.uk with:
- photos of the team
- their names and roles
- plus a 200 word citation as to why they should be crowned The Greatest Garden Centre Catering Support Team at Glee on Wednesday 17th September at 5:00pm.
We can’t wait to receive your nominations Closing date for Support Tea entries is Friday 5th September 2025.
