Promotional Staff from LOLA at the DELL Expo

Here are our lovely promo girls and promo guys working at the DELL Expo at Emirates Stadium last week! Each member of our promotional staff team was looking after a 20 seater theatre area where DELL seminars were taking place. LOLA staff were directing visitors to their seats, handing out literature, collecting feedback forms and assisting the guests – always with the smile on their faces!

LOLA’s Olympic Staff Medallists 2012!

A big round of applause goes to Dixon Castro (GOLD), Deimante Luksyte (SILVER) and Chiemele Akoma (BRONZE) who were chosen the top performers of London’s 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Event Staffing Season!

Dixon Castro – GOLD medallist of London 2012 in ‘LOLA’s Best Event Staff Member’

Dixon has received an impressive number of positive feedbacks from clients and LOLA senior team during the Olympics and Paralympics. Dixon worked on a bar at 2 of the busiest venues of the Summer 2012: the House of Nations – Tower of London and at H. Forman & Son’s Restaurant. Dixon adapted really quickly to the vibrant atmosphere of both venues being one of the most pro-active and hard-working staff members there. Other members of LOLA’s catering staff team describe Dixon as a ‘great team player’ and our supervisors say he ‘gets on with any task you throw at him’. Dixon is a very good barman and the clients are always impressed by his diligent work.
Well done Dixon! We’re happy to offer you a pay increase. Also a little something will be coming your way.

Deimante Luksyte – SILVER medallist of London 2012 in ‘LOLA’s Best Event Staff Member’

Deimante was one of the top performers at the VIP Olympic Hospitality Centre in the Olympic Stadium for SMART Hospitality. On the busiest days at the venue, Deimante was invaluable in helping to make the service run smoothly. She was always eager and proactive. The clients have also described Deimante as a very intelligent worker ‘working ahead of things that needed to be done’. Deimante is not only an excellent catering staff member but also a good friend to all of her colleagues. No matter how hard the shift is, everyone loves being around always smiley Deimante.
Well done Deimante! We’re very happy to offer you a pay increase.

Chiemele Akoma – BRONZE medallist of London 2012 in ‘LOLA’s Best Event Staff Member’

Chiemele was an absolute star during the Olympics mainly working at the Africa House and for Sodexo Prestige at the Olympic Park. Chiemele made himself irreplaceable very quickly with event managers often asking him to stay to the very end of the event. He is very hard-working and always willing to offer a hand. Chemiele is an outstanding member of our bar staff and waiting staff teams. His friends from our catering staff team say he’s a ‘real joy to work with’.

LOLA catering staff at The Royal Hospital Chelsea

Last Thursday the catering staff from LOLA worked at a fantastic costumed event for Mustard Catering at The Royal Hospital Chelsea. Our waiting staff were serving over 200 guests during the splendid fundraising dinner for Sir John Soane’s Museum. The venue looked outstanding and so did our staff. Waiters and waitresses from LOLA wore the outfits especially designed for them by the London School of Design. Everyone seemed to enjoy the special atmosphere of the evening and our staff received lots of praise. A special mention goes to Belle Taylor whose service was particularly impressive for the guests and for the client. Well done Belle!

Promotional Staff from LOLA at the ITV Game Show - 'My Man Can'

Our promotional staff have recently worked on the new ITV Game Show with Mark Wright and Melanie Sykes! The exciting brand new show is called ‘My Man Can’ and is due to be aired in 2013. 

‘My Man Can’ is an exciting project where girls send their boyfriends onto the show to compete in various challenges. Promotional staff from LOLA were involved in those challenges competing with the contestants.

LOLA promo girls did an amazing job taking part in the Culinary Challenge. International foods were brought in by our promotional girls representing countries from around the world including China, Britain, Germany, France, India and Morocco. Each of our promo girls looked stunning wearing a traditional dress of the country they represented. Take a look at the pictures! 

Promotional guys from LOLA did a great job too taking part in the Arm Wrestling Challenge (!) Boyfriends (the contestants) had to compete against our promo guys - all varying sizes. Apparently it was lots of fun – we can’t wait to see it on TV!

Our promotional staff had a great time and the ITV guys were a pleasure to work with. Not to mention that Mark Wright was very popular with the boys and girls. 

We bet ‘My Man Can’ will become your favourite show as soon as it’s aired on ITV! LOLA Team most certainly won’t miss one episode!

LOLA Come Dine With Me 2012

IT’S ALL OVER!

Last night, after more than six months of intense competition we finally concluded ‘LOLA – Come Dine With Me 2012.’

Never before has a workplace competition seen such ferocity from the combatants and never again will we see such a closely fought tussle. Adding to the drama throughout were lost receipts, over-spends, accusations of foul play, low and high balling, lost scores and re-scores and a litany of twists and turns.

In the end only 1.22 points separated first and last place, and only 0.13 points separated our gold and silver medallists. Such tiny margins illustrated the very high level of cooking, hosting and fun-making that each of our competitors from all around the globe brought to the table.

I will take away memories of real Polish vodka, torturous gardens, Beyonce, Arabian nights and many more inventive and exciting concepts that I never thought possible in a small, bland boardroom. But my favourite lasting memory must surely be John-Michael in Eve’s leopard print onesie! Spectacular!  

Everyone was a winner, but more accurately, only one person was a winner and all the rest were the losers. So here are our top 3 – congratulations to:

1^st Place GOLD – Diana Sanni and her glittering, glamorous LOLA Awards Dinner

2^nd Place SILVER – Madre Visser bringing us back to our earthy roots with her English Pub theme

3^rd Place BRONZE – John-Michael Robinson who whisked us off on an Arabian adventure

Special mention must also go to Paula who had the unenviable task of going first and subsequently was lumped with this year’s Booby Prize. Well done Paula!

Thank you to all the team for the wonderful effort you made in what I suspect was both our inaugural and only LOLA Come Dine With Me. Now the question remains – what next….?

Duncan

 

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LOLA promotional staff for vInspired 'Do Something' campaign

August 2012 marks the year anniversary of the riots the public saw spread throughout the streets of London. Since then vInspired (‘an independent charity dedicated to helping young people volunteer in ways that matter to them’) has developed the ‘Do Something’ campaign which is aiming to reverse the negative perceptions of young people in the UK after the London Riots last year.

LOLA, once again, was right in on the action working alongside vInspired to promote the ‘Do Something’ campaign. LOLA’s beautiful promotional staff worked throughout central London getting the youth of today involved by capturing images of girls and guys holding up messages of their positive contributions they have made to society.

This campaign has had amazing involvement from youths of London and Celebs alike leading to the unveiling of the House of Reeves in Croydon which had every square inch covered in the pictures which LOLA’s promo staff helped collect in the months prior to the unveiling of the House of Reeves.

LOLA is very proud to have taken part in such a worthwhile cause. Our promo girls and guys have loved every moment of it.

If you want to know more about vInspired and their ‘Do Something’ campaign have a look at their website: http://vinspired.com/dosomething

Guardsmen from LOLA Staffing welcome French & Belgian Olympic Teams

Guardsmen from LOLA Staffing welcome French & Belgian Olympic Teams! Here are the pictures of our promo guys with Iwan Thomas - sprinter who represented Great Britain and Northern Ireland at the Olympic Games in the 400 m! The Olympians travelled to London by Eurostar trains and were warmly welcomed by our promotional staff yesterday at St Pancras International. Click HERE to read an article and find out more!

RLifeLIVE music and entertainment platform launch at St Pancras Renaissance

LOLA waitress - StPancrasRenaissance

Last night Diana and Madre from the LOLA office had a chance to be part of an exclusive audience with urban soul singer of the moment - Maverick Sabre at the magnificent St. Pancras Renaissance Hotel.

Hackney-born, Ireland-raised singer was there to launch the new live side of Renaissance Hotels' R Life LIVE music and entertainment platform that allows guests the chance to discover the latest musical talent that is set to take the industry by storm.

LOLA waiter-StPancrasRenaissance

Maverick Sabre was supported by Dead on TV, the UK winner of MTV and Renaissance Hotels’ competition to find the ‘Best Band in the House’ to perform at the MTV 2012 EMAs, held in Frankfurt this November.

There were about 600 guests across Hansom Hall and the Lobby enjoying the night of live music at the amazing St Pancras Renaissance. Diana and Madre from LOLA had an amazing time and our bar staff and hospitality staff very much enjoyed working at their favourite London venue last night.

LOLA Promotional Staff at World Pride 2012

Here are our fun promotional staff team working at the event for Hilton Hotels & Resorts in association with World Pride 2012. Promo girls and guys from LOLA were using iPads to collect people’s e-mail addresses in order to register them for the Hilton Newsletter. The client was looking for promotional staff who were comfortable approaching, interacting and talking with the audience at the LGTB event. LOLA provided them with 17 of our most outgoing, approachable, fun, flirty, attractive and physically good looking promotional staff to work at this event. Result? 100% client satisfaction :) check out their comments below:

‘Just wanted to say what a great bunch of people you sent us on Saturday...very impressive - most of them were really up for it and were pretty much willing to do anything - including wearing very short, very tight, very sparkly shorts!
We are currently waiting for the figures to come in to tell us how many people they managed to get signed up and who managed to collate the most - there will be a prize for the winner - a $300 voucher which can be used at any Hilton hotel across the globe.
Thanks again for all your organisation and we look forward to working with you again in the future - we will certainly recommend you.’
Lou

Employee of the Month - June

BIG congratulations to Ksenija Taranenko who is our LOLA Employee of the Month for June and to the ‘LOLA Star’ Anais Lalange. 

Ksenija Taranenko is part of our catering staff team and has worked at 199 events (today is her 200^th shift!) at many fantastic London venues including Salters Hall, Fulham Palace, TATE Britain, the Hospital Club, Old Billingsgate Market, Glaziers Hall, Olympia, Earls Court, Royal Festival Hall, OXO Tower, The HAC, Wembley Stadium, H Forman and Son’s and many many more…
Friends who have worked with Ksenija at various events describe her as ‘a great girl to work with’, ‘energetic, helpful and attentive to details’.
We keep receiving a lot of positive feedback about Ksenija from our clients and LOLA supervisors who say she is ‘very committed’ and ‘always ready to work and help others’. They praise her ‘positive and friendly attitude and very good customer service’.
Well done Ksenija! A little something will be coming your way.

Anais Lalange
Also special mention to Anais Lalange who has been nominated as the ’LOLA Star’ this month and as a result we’re happy to offer a pay increase.
Anais has provided thousands of guests with her excellent service at some of the greatest London venues including Plaisterers’ Hall, ExCel London, Madame Tussaud’s, Shoreditch Town Hall, Saatchi Gallery and The Mermaid. Her LOLA friends and supervisors say ‘Anais’ got a great attitude and is a hard worker always on best behaviour’. They say they ‘love working with Anais’, who ‘does her duties with pleasure and care’
Great job Anais!
Thanks guys! Very well done!

LOLA Promotional Staff at Badoo LeWeb Party

LOLA promotional staff worked at Badoo LeWeb Party London 2012 and what a blast they had! Hostesses and hosts from our promotional agency were hired to showcase Badoo on iPhones and introduce as many guests as possible to the fun app! LOLA promo girls and guys were also registering guests on arrival and serving delicious drinks to then storm to the dance floor with the guests. Our promo girls looked absolutely glamorous and the LOLA hosts were as handsome as ever! Badoo (the world’s largest social network for meeting new people) has the mission ‘to provide the world’s easiest, fastest and most fun way for people to meet each other locally and globally.’ At their London party that mission was most certainly completed! Take a look at the pictures to see for yourself and enjoy the short video clip too!

LOLA Promotional Staff for Expedia

Take a look at the pictures of our beautiful hostesses working for Expedia. The world's largest online travel company had a party yesterday in their offices in the magnificent Angel Building, screening the England Ukraine match. Promotional staff from LOLA dressed up in football kits were there serving drinks, making cocktails, helping with the food and chatting to guests. They also spent some time with the guests on the beautiful roof palace. Ella and Amy from our promotional staff team contributed to the general ambiance of the party and made the watching of England winning the match and making it through to Euro quarterfinals even more enjoyable!

Employee of the Month - May

BIG congratulations to Andres Novoa who is our LOLA employee of the month for May and to the ‘LOLA Star’ Pratyusha Gupta!

Andres has worked as one of our waiting staff at many fantastic London venues including Eltham Palace, St Pancras Renaissance Hotel, Plaisterers’ Hall, The HAC, ExCel, Novotel London and many more.
Sodexo Prestige, Ferrari, Create, Mustard, BMW and Mermaid are just a few organisations that have benefitted from Andres’ great service and hard work.
LOLA supervisors and friends who had the pleasure to work with him at many events describe Andres as ‘proactive’, ‘always thinking ahead’ and ‘constantly looking for more work’.
Well done Andres! A little something will be coming your way.


Also special mention to Pratyusha Gupta who has been nominated as the ’LOLA Star’ this month and as a result we’re happy to offer a pay increase.
Pratyusha is part of our waiting staff team and one of our Club Wembley regulars – doing a fantastic job at every single shift. Apart from the Stadium, she has also worked at the TATE Modern, the HAC, The Hospital Club, St Pancras Renaissance Hotel and many more – constantly receiving positive feedback from our clients and supervisors.
Great job Pratyusha!
Thanks guys!

LOLA Waiting Staff at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show!

The waiting staff from LOLA had the pleasure to work at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show this May, and got a chance to see some amazing, modern, inventive gardens, new plants and ingenious products.
The Chelsea Flower Show has been held in the grounds of the Chelsea Hospital every year since 1913. It is Britain’s most prestigious flower show and most associated with the royal family, who attend the opening day every year. And guess what! Some of our lucky wait staff members were thrilled to see the Queen at the opening day this year!
We received some FANTASTIC feedback from the client about our precious waiters and waitresses! Check out for yourself! <blush>
‘Can I just say a big thank you to you and your staff for last week. I work at various venues throughout the UK and abroad. On most occasions the quality of Staff are fair to good, some need a bit of on the job training and some outshine others. On this occasion I can honestly say for the 1st time ever all of my staff were shining like stars. It was my pleasure and privilege to work with your staff, they are a credit to your Agency and themselves. I made a joke about being sick and tired of the amount of customers telling me how good they were, of the 4000+ people that came through the restaurant only one complained about the service level That to me was amazing, I talked to about 75% of the customers and those that I missed my other Managers captured. Considering that they were in at 6.00am through to 5pm, they were still smiling at the end of the day, and next morning when they came back, and it showed with the feedback from the customers. Everything we asked of them they did and more as well. I am pleased to say that we exceeded all expectations. I know I will be working with your staff again in the near future, and I am looking forward to it immensely. I did thank everyone, but can you pass on my thanks again.’

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