18th century hotel reopens thanks to NatWest funding

The Maynard Arms, an 18^th century hotel in Grindleford, Derbyshire, has reopened under new management thanks to NatWest funding.

The hotel is now run by Robert Hattersley. The ballroom, garden, restaurant and bar area have all been modernised. The restaurant now seats 110 people. A bridle suite and another bedroom is also under development, which will bring the total number of bedrooms to 12.

The new owner, Robert Hattersley, secured £70,000 funding to carry out the refurbishment. It is hoped that an additional 10 part-time members of staff will join the team during the summer.

Hattersley said: “I knew I wanted to eventually have my own project in the Peak District. I grew up in the area and my parents owned a restaurant in Bakewell, so I always hoped I’d return some day.

“When the Maynard Arms became available, I decided to use my 15 years’ experience in hospitality to take it over.

“It’s such a beautiful building with so much character and it’s surrounded by amazing walks – the interior only needed modernising.

“We’re really pleased with the work that’s been done so far, particularly in the restaurant, and we’d like to thank NatWest for its support throughout.”

The hotel industry employs a diverse mix of casual, temporary, agency, part time and full-time permanent staff in order to staff the hotel around the clock. If there was ever an industry which suffers from still using paper timesheets to record working hours, it is this one.

Keeping track of shifts, especially on night shifts or other times when the manager isn’t around, is very difficult with high volumes of staff using timesheets. Employees regularly forget to hand in their timesheets by the deadline and agency staff hand theirs straight to their agencies, meaning that sometimes the employer never even sees it to approve it.

This means that there is a very real danger of employees falsifying their timesheets; either just by a few minutes here and there, or outright claiming shifts they were never present for.

Purchasing a workplace management system from Time and Attendance North West will solve these authorisation issues. If employees have to clock in at the clocking terminal before entering and leaving, there will no longer be any ambiguity about working hours and no need to sort through hundreds of timesheets at the end of the week or month.

Supervisors and managers can also check all of the timing data for their assigned team members easily within the software, which gets rid of squinting at bad handwriting, and also gets rid of the need to chase people up for handing them in late.

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