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The Lamba family have created a welcoming environment for all at The Cow Shed at The Ship Inn including families, drinkers, diners and dog-owners and its a popular pub for both locals and destination customers.
Innovative operation
Its strong food offer, focusing on an American smokehouse menu, including breakfast, the pub’s Sunday roasts (featuring 12-hour slow cooked beef brisket), set-price lunch menu, garden fire pit grill and barbecue offer and food delivery service run with its own delivery drivers, as well as is well-rounded drinks range, including impactful promotions, were also praised.
Impressive innovations included offering a one-stop shop for events, even having its own in-house cake making business, how it adds the wow factor to customers’ special occasions, its mobile catering business ‘The Cow Shed On the Hoof’, parcel lockers and imaginative range of events, including film screenings with themed dinners, Puppy Pawty featuring dog retailers and activities and ‘Breakfast with Santa’ for dogs.
Team resilience
Judges were also impressed with the resilience shown by The Cow Shed team over the past few months with dealing with the challenge of having part of the front of the pub boarded up after a car came through the front of it, which has had a big impact on passing trade.
The pub also has a strong community focus, hosting darts teams, quiz nights, charity meat raffles and regular live music events, whilst also supporting lots of local projects and charities, including providing thousands of free meals to vulnerable children across Kent and sponsoring youth football.
Its strong marketing initiatives, team training and benefits also impressed.
