Blosson Tea at the Gran Hotel Inglés
During the semester, the graduates of the Professional Program of Madrid Flower School have been able to design for the Gran Hotel Inglés. Coordinating the order under a color palette, receiving and conditioning the flower, and then designing, has been their first brush with reality. Until Sunday, November 14, they will be attending Blossom Tea Pop Up, our first ephemeral flower shop in a beautiful corner of the entrance hall. Meanwhile, the LobByto restaurant will be serving tea service with delicacies from 4:00 to 7:00 pm. Its director, Miguel Angel Doblado, is a lover of flowers and knows the impact they have on customers.
At Madrid Hotel Week, I received an invitation to talk about flowers and hotels to managers, directors and owners of the industry. The first thing I want to do is ask the audience: who likes flowers? Secondly, how many people buy flowers on a weekly basis? I know the picture will be bleak. Because of a cost ratio that they have in their head, flowers do not enter into the equation of the Spanish business model.
While in the UK and France, a hotel without floral decoration would not be worthy of opening its doors, here they find the item annoying and polish their stars with plastic flowers. Why? Because it means time spent on something they have no idea how to handle. Not even the prestigious Les Roches Marbella school dedicates space in its curriculum to it.
But well, I'll tell you about my adventure, because the table of the Hotel Business Association of Madrid will also sit a real bullfighter!
