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THE TRITON TEAM

The Triton team are one of the establishment's star attractions. They are often the reason our customers select us for their fine dining experience, and why they come back time after time. The Triton's first class reputation was built on top quality service, and for many years was the flagship of the Jackson's' chain of Eating Houses, which included the Ferguson Fawcett at Walkington, the Pipe and Glass at South Dalton and the Dacre Arms at Brandesburton.

Leading the team are owners Paul and Anne Rusling. They have run several pubs in London & the south east such as the Halfway House in Dunstable (a huge place, now the headquarters of the Beefeater chain), the Black Lion on the banks of the Thames at Chiswick Mall, The Crystal Palace Hotel in south London where they promoted reggae concerts with artists such as Desmond Dekker and other music genres, the Swan Hotel on the Pantiles in Royal Tunbridge Wells and the Punch Tavern in Whitstable, a well known pirates' haunt, which was used as a base for a radio station set up by Screaming Lord Sutch.

Anne has managed several well known local restaurants and night clubs, from Berni Inns, through Wakefield Tiffany's, to five star silver service establishments, while most of Paul's non-catering work has been in radio. He began working as a Disc Jockey in night clubs while still at school and has been resident DJ in Hull at such well known establishments as the Bier Keller, Tiffany's (The Locarno in Hull), Scamps and Baileys. His broadcast career includes stints on Radio Caroline where he hosted the breakfast show in the early 1970s and with Laser 558, Sky Radio, Classic FM, Virgin and several European stations. A radio adventurer, Paul has worked on new radio ventures in various countries, from the Isle of Man to Lithuania via Holland, Gemany and Poland.

When Paul and Anne took over the Triton it was closed and had no staff, enabling them to build a new team from scratch. Having been regular customers at the Triton themselves, as well as at selected other restaurants in the area for around twenty years, they were able to carefully select the first class team the Triton needed, using the best staff available, capable of achieving and maintaining high standards.

Just after we reopened The Triton we poached Guy Tolland from Medici's, a very well known restaurant just up the A63 at North Ferriby and many of our customers remember him from there. In the last three years he has put in more hours than anyone else and helped make the Triton what it is today. We were very sorry to lose him recently to further his acreer - he is now Director of Hospitality at the College of Agriculture in Bishop Burton, but still pops into the Triton quite often.

Vince

Responsible for bar operations is Vince McPherson, who has a wealth of expertise under his belt working at such famous bars as the Victoria in Fife and The Crypt in York for example.

Vince has been at the Triton since before we reopened and as our first manager was a key member of the team who helped rebuild and relaunch The Triton. Vince literally helped design the new look for The Triton, travelled the country searching out suitable furniture, fixtures and fittings and then physically helped install much of what you see today.

He is also something of an expert in nutrition, a bit of a keep fit fanatic who likes to go running every day and is very knowledgable about cars - his dad John is a fitter at the country's leading bus company in Scotland.
Luke

Assistant Manager Luke Duerden is a Tigers AND Liverpool FC fan and if he is missing on Saturdays its because he is traveling the length and breadth of the country watching either the Tigers or those boys in red. His Sundays off are spent playing soccer for one of the local football teams, either Elloughton or South Cave United. Luke is now a PE teacher at the East Riding College in Bishop Burton.

Nathaniel

The newest member of our management team is Nathan Greenfield, who has recently been managing Brimbles Restaurant on Princes Avenue in Hull and before that was at the Railway Inn in Old Ellerby. His family are steeped in puibs and restaurants and has a bright future in our industry. (Yes, we are trying to get a better picture of him - if anyone has one please send it to the triton)

We have what we believe are one of the strongest and most experienced brigades of chefs in the East Riding, capable of preparing either traditional pub fare, or first class a la carte meals and banquets.

Our Head Chef is the excellent NICK LYON, who joined us from Dante Restaurant in West Hull.

Nicks career in catering began at the legendary Wortley Arms Hotel in Scunthorpe as a commis chef. He then ran his own Buttercross Restaurant in Lincolnshire for many years before joining Lincolnshire's best Italian eating house, Elio's Restaurant in Barton on Humber.

Nick spent eight exciting years with Elio before hopping across the bridge to become Head Chef at the renowned Casa Mazonni. Arguably Hull's best fish restaurant, its definitely sadly missed by many of its former patrons. He spent eight very happy and successful years there before helping set up a new venture in Hull, called Dante's.

Nick has now moved to East Yorkshire's best place to eat and be seen (that's The Triton by the way!). We hope he is here for at least 8 years too!

A recent signing to our brigade of chefs is Christian Fletcher. He has worked at many top class restaurant across East Yorkshire.

One of our key Sous Chefs is Scott Foxhall, seen on the left here, topping up his tan on the pass! Scott is an ace driver and all round nice guy, and probably one of the keenest young chefs in the entire county. We trhink he is a future Michelin star chef - so come and sample his food now, while its still affordable!

Doug Crouch joined our brigade last year - he has extensive culinary expertise going back to the early 1990s when he joined the Army. Another key member of the team is Big Ben - very quiet, shy and reserved, so we wont say much about him, but he turns out some ace desserts and starters.

Welcome

'Front of House'

Welcoming you to The Triton is likely to be one of our 'Front of House' team. Members of our FOH team are all welcomers (a very important job at the Triton), waitresses, bar staff and table clearers - we all do the same jobs.

Several of our staff are usually away at University during term time and we only see them during the holidays. It's a good job they get such long holidays!

Our team always try and make everyone welcome at The Triton - we won't always greet you at the door with a glass of Bucks Fizz on the red carpet, but you will always be asssured of a warm welcome from Luke, Vince, Nathan, Dawn, Dave, Tom, Lewis, Patrick, Albert, Michael, Leanne, Georgina, Stephanie, Rachel, Maddy, Caroline - not to mention Paul and Anne.

Georgie Girl

Georgina Tognola knows Brantingham quite well as she spent about three quarters of her life living here. An old girl of Pocklington school, she's now studying at Northumbria University in Newcastle, but with the long holidays that students get we do see her here at the Triton quite a bit - and a very welcome pair of hands she is too.

Georgina is currently practicing hard to take up juggling, so please don't be alarmed when she scatters our best champagne glasses across the floor!

One of our recent recruits is Ashleigh Dunn who previously worked at Langlands Garden Centre in Shiptonthorpe and is now a media student at the renowned Hallam University in Sheffield. Ashleigh did a year of media at college in York last year and is thinking of making a film about her car and its breakdowns on the A1034. She has one of the biggest brightest widest smiles and loves seeing people enjoy themselves. She is busy planning to tour across the USA in a motorhome (or RV as our Yanee couins call them) and is keen to hear suggestions about where she should visit to pursue a possible carerr in film or TV filming.

Caroline Wride is also a welcome addition to our team - she worked at the prestigious Black Horse in Ellerker so knows her way around a menu, as do her fellow new recruits. Ask her to do her famous Zombie dance from Michael Jackson's Thriller video - she could be Michael Jackson's sister!

Patrick

Completing our front of house team are several more great young guys: Patrick Carty, (right) who previously commanded a team of five waiters - so if he gets a bit bossy, you know why. Patrick is usually only with us at holiday times as he is now a student at Northumbria University.

Look out also for the newer boys Matthew Stow,(seen above, hovering somewhere above Ashleigh's head!). He's a great bon viveur and socialite of the area as well as an accomplished skier.
Maddy

NEW RECRUITS

Recently joining The Triton's team is Madeleine Smith. She previously worked at the Griffin, a well known pub on Sancton Road in Market Weighton and attended the legendary Market Weighton High School.

Madeleine is now training to be a chef at Hull College, so if you want to see her dancing around the tables front of house, now is the time, before she gets whisked off into the kitchen for some serious grill work (Chefs always get whisked away or poached, although some of ours occasionally get scrambled!).

Albert

Albert Weatherill, on the left, who is also a 'holidays mainly' member of team as he is at Nottingham University where he reads (not sure of the subject, but he mostly reads his own Facebook site). Albert is a great worker and another Old Hymerian.
Dave

David Woodhead is one of our best discoveries who is new to the business but is already loving every minute of his time at The Triton. He is one of East Yorkshire's best young golf players and widely regarded as the area's top scratch players.
Dave is probably the ideal publican - a likable personality, great smile, popular with the ladies and a font of information about sport. He also has the best tan of all our team, thanks to his long days on the golf course. Look out for him in an Open in the next few years!

David's brother Tom Woodhead joined us from Hull; City where he was a goal-keeper on the youth team late last year and then went off to Australia to pursue his career as a professional sportsman, playing soccer in Australia. After a great half season with Sorrento FC, he is now back in Yorkshiure and playing between the sticks for Scarborough - now revitalised side and back on the trek to league soccer. Tom, still comes in to help us out, so look out for him in The Triton.

Michael Willey is one of East Yorkshire's best young footballers who scored dozens of goals for North Ferriby over a five year period. He also played for Barnsley but his game was ruined by when he broke his arm in four places playing rugby for school. It took a whole box of screws and a year to fix, he will show you his scars if you catch him on a good day. He can now even carry two plates at once and sometimes remembers to clear the tables as well!

So thats five of our team are also Old Hymerians and all are keen to welcome YOU to the Triton. We also have Stephanie, Rachel and Callum who are all too shy to have their picture on here - just in case any of their friends see them!
FWA

Returning to the Triton once again is our dear old pal, Richard Fwa, who many of you will remember worked here last year. He ran away to join the police force for a while, but is now back 'behind bars' at The Triton, or whirling his way around the dance floor, as the mood takes him.

One of lifes great characters, Richard is always jetting off to some exotic land and is currently down in Nigeria helping his family launch a new hotel, but we're sure he will be back at The Triton again in the not too distant future, so perhaps one of you ladies could grab him, marry him and settle him down so we can have his services here a bit longer?

Richard Fwa
seen here giving dancing lessons
to Alice from Tranby!