City Lodge Hotels Announces The Sponsorship Of The SA Global Pizza Challenge!

May 22, 2023

City Lodge Hotels Announces The Sponsorship Of The SA Global Pizza Challenge! City Lodge Hotel Group has taken a slice of the sponsorship pizza pie in support of this exciting culinary competition and in honour of the great strides taken in food and beverage across the group’s 59 hotels spread across four hotel brands and four countries.

Lindiwe Sangweni-Siddo, chief operating officer at City Lodge Hotel Group, explains: “We chose to get involved in this exciting culinary competition as another step in the food and beverage journey at our hotels. With the expansion and enhancement of our food and beverage offering across our Courtyard Hotels, City Lodge Hotels, Town Lodges and Road Lodges, we want to ensure the public know we take mealtimes seriously. We also want to give our hard-working kitchen teams exposure to the exciting world of culinary competitions, which showcase new ideas, presentation trends and opportunities to learn and grow. By inspiring and motivating our staff to enter and attend events such as these, we spread the learning as they go back to their kitchens and share their enthusiasm with the team. For us it’s all about delivering on our motto of ‘People caring for people’.”

This annual event, endorsed by the South Africa Chefs Association (SACA), is part of global recognition of the huge role pizza plays in share of stomach in the sit-down, takeaway and retail markets. Chefs, cooks and independent pizza makers – whether a representative of a stand-alone pizzeria, restaurant, take-away outlet, hotel, suburban hot spot or plain home enthusiast – will be tossing up a cooking sensation throughout the three show days, with the event culminating in the announcement of the winners.

The overall winner will receive a cash prize of R10,000, a winner’s trophy and their name engraved on the floating trophy. There is also a prize of R3,000 for the best vegan pizza and R5,000 for the best use of Soweto Hot Sauce.