Triton Inn - Hull and East Yorkshire pub restaurant: team

THE TRITON TEAM

The Triton team are one of the establishment's key 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 worked at and managed several well known restaurants and night clubs: Spencer Arms in Hull, some Berni Inns, through Wakefield Tiffany's, to five star silver service establishments. 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 at such well known establishments as the Bier Keller, Tiffany's (aka 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 many 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. In the last four years he has put in more hours and hard work than anyone else and helped make the Triton what it is today.

Guy brought a wealth of experiences in catering and hospitality including peroiods as a Training Manager with national hospitality and catering chain Allied Domecq, as the manager of the much missed Exchange restaurant at St Andrews Quay, and the Sailmakers Arms. After three years at The Triton he moved to the East Riding College at Bishop Burton as Director of Hospitality. Early in 2011 however, we were delighted to welcome him back to The Triton. He is still keen on exercise and is currently getting into shape for a 10 kilometer run in the Summer.

He is seen on the left with his lovely wife Sam in the Triton kitchen.

Deputy Manager Tom Woodhead (right) joined us last year from Hull City where he was a goal-keeper on the youth team. Early in 2010 he spent some time in Australia to pursue his career as a professional sportsman, playing soccer for Sorrento FC.

Tom is now back in Yorkshire and we are delighted he has rejoined the team at The Triton, where he is now an important part of our management team.

He has since played for Whitby FC and for Scarborough FC, where he was a leading light of their 2010-2011 season side producing some saves that have been described in the Evening News as "world class".

Tom has now has moved on to Brigg Town FC, who are known as the Zebras where he exercises his cat like abilities between the sticks at Hawthorn Avenue most Saturdays for the Lincolnshire side's first team games.

In the Triton kitchen, we have 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 new Head Chef is the excellent Danny Poole, who re-joined us in early 2011 after working at the Alison Hall restaurant in Hedon for the past year. Danny went to South Holderness School and Wilberforce College and began his career as a commis Chef at the Mason Cafe Bar on Princess Dock Side in Hull, before moving to the Timber Dock Taven in Hull, then across the road to the Platform One Hotel as Chef de Partie. He had a few months at Luciano's restaurant in a similar role and then moved to the Dine on the Rowe in Beverley as Head Chef in Training, before first joining the Triton two years ago. Simon

As well as being a keen rugby League fan (playing and watching) he plays golf (when he gets the time!) Danny is a very conscientious and passionately keen chef who has some great plans for developing our menus and our menu now features many of his own special recipes and dishes. On November 8th, Danny became a father for the first time, to two lovely girls, Imogen and Isabella.

Also a key part of the kitchen team is Simon Mabey, (on the right) who originates in the Kentish part of South East London. After working in London for several years, including a spell at his beloved Millwall FC, Simon moved to East Yorkshire for family reasons.

Simon has been working in kitchens in the East Riding for five years now and joined us after several years at the Hotel Elizabethan at North Ferriby and the Green Dragon at Welton. He lives in a nearby village with his wife Angie and son Alf.

Other key kitchen hands include Tim Gaff, Jordan

seen here on the left, who is shortly off back to Edinburgh University.

Our chefs are assisted by Kitchen Assistants such as Jordan Sayers (seen here on the right) as well as part time assistants Ben and Chris.

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, which is looking after our customers and making them feel welcome.
Jake

Recently promoted to be deputy manager is Lewis Barmby, seen on the left. Lewis has been at The Triton for a couple of years now and is one of our most valued team members.

Jake (Jacob) May (on the right) joined us just before Christmas 2010 and is studying at South Hunsley during the day. He has worked in media and at Medici's as well as at Humber Growers. 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 assured of a warm welcome from Tom Woodhead, Lewis Barmby, Dominic Carty, Albert Weatherall, Ellie Dunwell, Connie Rawding, Fiona Colling, Katie Pearson, Megan Clarke and Charlotte Amers - not to mention Paul and Anne!

Fiona Colling (on the right, in her short-cropped days) is East Yorkshire's keenest female Hull RLFC fan who studied accountancy at Hull College and now lives in Market Weighton. She worked at the Griffin in the town there until she joined the elite Triton team.

Ellie Dunwell (on the left) is something of a high flyer who usually arrives for her shifts in a chauffeur-driven Jaguar! She is also a South Hunsley girl, where she is expecting 13 top Grades in her GCSEs and hopes to do a 5 / 6 year medical degree to qualify as a Predication. She came first in the Lifestyle Awards in 2007 after coming in as a runner up in 2005 and 2006 and has won other awards too, for sport and dance.

Charlie Reid is a full time student at Hull University.

Charlotte Amers and Connie Rawding (on the right) are full time students at the South Hunsley Sixth Form College.

Here below are Charlie Reed, Georgina Tognola (who just left us in January 2012 for a life in Spain, but we are sure she will be back one day) Anne, Ellie Dunwell and Katie Pearson.

Fiona Colling (on the right, in her short-cropped days) is East Yorkshire's keenest female Hull RLFC fan who studied accountancy at Hull College and now lives in Market Weighton. She worked at the Griffin in the town there until she joined the elite Triton team.

Ellie Dunwell (on the left) is a bit of a high flyer who usually arrives for her shifts in a chauffeur-driven Jaguar! She is also a South Hunsley girl, where she is expecting 13 top Grades in her GCSEs and hopes to do a 5 / 6 year medical degree to qualify as a Predication. She came first in the Lifestyle Awards in 2007 after coming in as a runner up in 2005 and 2006 and has won other awards too, for sport and dance.