READ AND WIN! COMMENT > GO IN THE DRAW TO WIN SP MERCH! + CHECK THE WINNERS LAST TIME! DETAILS AT THE END.
Hey everyone! We’ve caught up on the profit sharing meetings, so now it’s time to cover the other big events from late last year – the awards parties! Let’s start with Auckland on Tuesday 22 October. Check out the festival atmosphere, amazing costumes and wonderful prize winners!
Awards parties are real highlights of our year, and we love bringing the St. Pierre’s family together. The Auckland party was held at the Imperial Palace in Panmure, with around 420 staff packing out the venue. All upper North Island shop staff are invited, and some came from as far away as Whangārei, Tauranga, Rotorua and New Plymouth to the Auckland bash.
Awards parties are about celebrating all shop staff, and in particular recognising the high performers over the last year. A total of 15 awards for a wide range of achievements were awarded, including for part time and full time crew of the year, best service, and best food quality and shop of the year
The evening culminated with the Specialty Manager of the Year, for bento, seafood and K10 managers, and the $3,500 prize for Sushi Manager of the Year!
Some national award winners are based in Wellington or Christchurch, so we’ll post a separate article featuring all the winners nationwide!
What makes our awards parties really special is the mix of the serious (awards) and not too serious (costumes). Fancy dress is encouraged, and some staff go to great lengths! This year’s theme was “animation,” with attendees encouraged to dress as their favourite character from anime, cartoons, or any other animated art form. And did our staff deliver! We saw all sorts of amazing outfits, from geisha to fairies to ninja turtles to maids to Mario to classic anime characters like Kiki and Noface… and just about everything else imaginable!
Enjoy the photo parade!
And the good news is, there’s more to come! The Wellington awards party was on Tuesday 29th and the Christchurch party on Wednesday 30th October. We’ll be covering those in separate articles – look out for them soon!!!
READ AND WIN RESULTS
Congratulations to these staff!
Aldila from Oteha Valley
Michael Worboys from Hornby
Andrea Moreton from Christchurch Wholesale
We’ll send your prizes to your shops with the next office items delivery 🙂
THIS WEEK’S QUESTION:
We’re again giving away three pairs of these limited-edition 40th anniversary gold chopsticks to St Pierres staff only. If you’d like to win a pair, comment below with
1. Your name and shop
2. Your answer to this question:
What prize did Eugene from Hastings win as Specialty Manager of the Year?
Entries close at 12 noon on Monday 10 March 2025.
Apinya Tam Kunakonteerakul, Newmarket Eatery
$2,500 Travel prize
Eugene won $2500 travel prizes.
Leo wang from northlink
Name: jing Lin
Shop: ormiston shop
Answer: 2500 travel prize
Kim from St. Pierres Mt Roskill
Eugene from Hastings won the Specialty Manager of the Year title
Heui kyung(Mel) Moon
South city
Answer : $2,500 travel money
(national winner)
Name: zhoupeng Liu
Shop: Pukekohe
Answer: 2500 travel prize
Jenny Caduhada
Napier Carlyle Bento
2500 travel prize
Nine Silverdale
2,500 travel prices