The Isle of Wight Council is looking for a catering company to come forward to offer a refreshment service for visitors to Dinosaur Isle in Sandown.
The museum, which currently has no facilities to offer refreshments, is inviting expressions of interest for the provision of a temporary catering service.
It is hoped that proposals from experienced operators will be forthcoming, with the aim of offering catering outside the museum during its opening hours from Easter though to the end of October.
The arrangement is to start as soon as possible and whilst this is for an initial period of 1 year there is an option to extend annually until March 2028.
They’ve GOT to have those dinosaur shaped chicken nuggets on the menu. Massive failing if they don’t.
It seems pretty obvious from this that the Council don’t have any plans for Browns!!! Surely it would make more common sense to sort the golf course and cafe out first.
What’s the point,u r in and out with in a hour,there’s a good little cafe in yaverland carpark people can use
IOW council said in their pre budget statement they were going to outsource the catering arrangements and raise £10,000 per annum, now we see they have no caterer in place and are hoping for expressions of interest, most if not all professional catering businesses will already had their business plan in place for 2023 and the IOW are hardly negotiating price from a position of strength when they have publicily said how much they hope to raise, look forward to the figures coming out next year as to how much they actually got from this franchaise.
About 20 years too late. There should have been catering in the museum when it was built. The profit could have been used to help maintain the facility.
Where do people eat?
Sorry IW Council, you’ve got this one badly wrong. There is (or was until you turfed them out) a perfectly good food venue right next door at Brown’s. If there are no facilities within DInosaur Isle, any franchisee will have to build them and that won’t happen on a one-year lease. Or perhaps you’re proposing a burger van outside? That would certainly be in keeping with the general chav style of the new Sandown.
To reduce costs, they could ask businesses to tender that they have given a 1 star rating for food hygiene to. Should be much cheaper and lots of beige food options.
Ummm this is the Isle of Wight – people bring their own food and drink to avoid spending.