Restaurant comes to rescue as power cut hits school
Published: January 26, 2007
A Ledbury chef cooked for 100 hungry school children when a power cut made it look certain hot meals would be off the menu.
The kitchens at Bromesberrow Primary are used to cook daily dinners for youngsters at both Bromesberrow and Eldersfield schools.
But when storms caused a power cut last week, the ovens went off in the kitchen and pupils were facing an early home time without a warm meal.
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Bronwyn Mabey, head of Bromesberrow Primary, said: “When children have ordered roast beef and Yorkshire puddings, that is exactly what they want. They look forward to it.”
Fortunately, Mrs Mabey and her husband Dave are the owners of the Black Pepper restaurant in Ledbury High Street.
She said: “I phoned some extra, unexpected orders through. Otherwise, we would have had lots of sad, hungry children.”
The semi-cooked meals were driven the four miles from the school kitchens to the restaurant, which was not affected by the power failure.
The heroic Mr Mabey got busy in the kitchen and, with the meals transported back to both schools, the children were able to eat a hot meal at lunchtime.
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