The Ferry Boat is proud to be part of the Ever So Sensible Group, established in 2001.

We are a small independent East Midlands based restaurant company specialising in running high quality pubs, restaurants, and hotels that serve fantastic food & delicious drink to our truly awesome customers.

We believe it all starts with our people, so our aim is to be the best employer in our industry, which in turn helps our teams provide the best experience to our customers.

Here are some of the things we do:

Industry leading employee satisfaction survey scores

Live by our values of Care, Pride, and Recognition

Offer the best working hours, training, and opportunities to all of our teams

Pay all of our employee’s above minimum wage

Company profit share every year

Staff hardship fund during Covid to providing financial support to our teams

Increased pay acoss the whole company to help with the cost-of-living crisis

Awarded Investors In People Gold, and are one of the highest scoring companies in the hospitality industry

 

Our teams are so fantastic that they achieve loads of incredible things.  Here are just a few of their favourites so we don’t embarrass them too much:

Top ratings on Google & Trip Advisor

CAMRA Good Beer Guide

Cask Marque accredited

Dining Pub of the Year – Lincolnshire Life Awards

Best Bar Finalist – North Nottinghamshire Food & Drink Awards

Hotel of the Year – Hotels.com

Leicestershire Tourism Awards shortlisted

Help raise money for Rainbows Hospice, the Ukraine Appeal, MacMillan, and lots of local charities.

Ever So “Environmentally” Sensible

Climate change is a real threats to all our futures, we all need to start doing things differently before it is too late. As a business we actively take steps to be more sustainable.  Whilst we can’t change everything immediately, we have made a start, see below.

 

 

Increasing “plant-based” food items on all our menus.

Reducing food waste throughout our sites.

Switched to eco-friendly straws, napkins, and toilet rolls.

Reviewed our waste recycling, separating our food waste, glass and cardboard.

Working with suppliers to reduce unnecessary packaging.

Switching all our Electric and Gas to a of 100% renewable energy supplier.

Began to change from gas cookers to electric induction cookers in our kitchens.

Where possible, we are installing electric car charging points in our car parks.

 

We will keep looking for changes we can make now and in the future. 

If you can suggest other practical and sensible action we can undertake please let us know