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  • Mercure Leeds Centre opens September

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  • Indigo coming to Chester

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  • Dalata plan new Manchester Hotel

    Dalata plan new Manchester Hotel

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    Dalata plan new London Hotel

  • New Hotel opens in Glasgow

    New Hotel opens in Glasgow

81 million meals, 27 million pastries and half a million bottles of Champagne - all in a year of luxury dining

IHG has revealed what it takes to deliver five-star service around the clock at its 183 InterContinental Hotels & Resorts properties around the globe.

The insight into its culinary offering, as part of the brand’s 70th anniversary celebrations.

A year of luxury dining in numbers:
•81 million meals served 
•27 million pastries made for guests
•500,000 bottles of Champagne are popped
•400kg of honey is produced by bees at InterContinental Hotels & Resorts
•166 years is the oldest bottle of vintage wine available for guests to order
•9 Michelin starred restaurants across the InterContinental brand portfolio 

With ten new Intercontinental Hotels opening in the past year including new hotels in London, Dubai, Chennai, and Beijing, as well as the reopening of the InterContinental New York Barclay earlier this year, expect the catalogue to grow in size in future.

Full article: https://www.ihgplc.com/en/news-and-media/news-releases/2016/intercontinental-dining-excellence