Kitchen Infrastructure for four Pub in the Park Events

Brand Events is one of the UK’s premier event production companies, establishing many large scale events, including the Taste Festivals, Top Gear Live and the Fast and Furious Live Show.

In 2017, the company wanted to create a new food-based experience with celebrity chef Tom Kerridge, aiming to create the world’s best pub garden, Pub in The Park. Combining food, drink and great music, the team wanted to create an event that would welcome families and foodies alike.

At the event, ten pubs were invited to produce high quality, affordable food that would show off the best that pubs in the UK had to offer, alongside some of the world’s best drinks brands.

The event was launched in the Summer of 2017 in Tom’s home town of Marlow. Brand Events contracted PKL to work with the 10 pubs they had invited to the inaugural event to create a basic kitchen design that each pub could adapt and augment as they saw fit.

The event was a massive success. Tickets sold out in 48 hours and the feedback from visitors was very positive.

The success convinced the organisers to expand to four events for 2018, in Marlow, Bath, Tunbridge Wells and Knutsford.

Continuing the good relationship the two companies had built up the year before, PKL scaled up the original model to design and install 42 bespoke kitchens throughout the four events, individually installing more than 500 pieces of equipment.

Neil Levene, Events Director for Brand Events said: “Our relationship with PKL is very positive. They work closely with our partners to produce individual designs for each kitchen, showing their expertise as equipment specialists, which gives us and our partners great confidence. We are hoping to expand Pub in the Park in future years, and look forward to working with PKL again for those events.”