Honeywell high-tech air cleaners

Award-winning licensees use air cleaning technology to strike ideal balance between smoking and non-smoking.

National-award-winning licensees David and Gillian Heyes are using clean air technology to strike an ideal balance between smoking and non-smoking at the Garsdale Country Inn and Restaurant, near Bury, Lancs.

"Our two Honeywell high-tech air cleaners are brilliant - you can't smell smoke even though people are smoking," said Gillian.

"Non-smokers never complain about smoke and can socialise with their smoking friends without discomfort." Husband and wife, David and Gillian jointly won the British Institute of Innkeeping's "Licensee of the Year" in 2004, so are experts in satisfying their customers.

These include regulars for whom the Garsdale is their "local" to diners from a wide area who travel to enjoy the highly-acclaimed restaurant.

"We don't want to ban smoking and concentrate on food because we'd lose our 'local' customers, most of whom smoke," revealed Gillian.

"With the Honeywell air cleaners no-one suffers".

"One air cleaner ensures a healthy and clean, smoke-free atmosphere in the bar area, where we allow smoking.

The second ensures the lounge near the restaurant also remains pollution-free, not only between the dining hours of 12-2pm and 6-9pm, when we don't allow smoking there, but also at other times when it can be full of drinkers including the local football team and football fans, most of whom smoke.

We don't allow smoking in the restaurant, which is a separate room.

"We have a service contract for the cleaners with Inn-House Technology, a 'full-service' distributor authorised and trained by Honeywell".

"Their service is superb and very competitive".

David, a qualified chef, and Gillian, who had her own catering company, took over the Garsdale in April 2001.

Their mission was to turn the scruffy "local" pub into the best destination food and family pub in Bury.

They wrote a five-year business plan and began intensive refurbishment, cleaning and recruitment.

They have more than tripled its turnover and, in only their second year, the Garsdale was awarded Best Family Pub and Business Development Pub by the Morning Advertiser, followed a year later by their "Licensee of the Year" award.

Their adoption of a smoking policy and active smoke removal using the Honeywell cleaners is one piece of evidence that David and Gillian both understand and respond to their target audience and the market place in which they operate.

Honeywell air cleaners actively remove pollutants and supply the clean air over a large area, unlike ventilators which only move air and unlike air conditioners which only cool air and adjust humidity.

With their electrostatic cleaners, air indoors can be cleaner and healthier than outside, says Honeywell.

Staffs are happier, less prone to illness and hay fever, and enjoy a smoke-free workplace.

Customers are more comfortable, so stay longer and spend more.

Millions of Honeywell air cleaners are in daily use worldwide, in cafes, bars, restaurants, offices, hotels, leisure centres and other venues.

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