Ali Khedri, Owner

Ali Khedri is a local business man who owns the Pizza Cottage in Whitley Bay. Ali moved to Newcastle in the 1980’s having previously lived in Iran. Ali established the Pizza Cottage in 1984. He and Dave Townsley h...

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Dave Townsley, owner

North East entrepreneur Dave Townsley is originally from Jarrow and has been running his own businesses since the age of 15. After selling his first business, a mobile shop, Dave bought a catering trailer which he develo...

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Debbie Adamson, Operations Manager

Debbie has been operations manager at Tuscany since the restaurant opened in 2007.

Originally from South Shields , Debbie studied a degree in English at Sunderland University before taking an NVQ lev...

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Jessica Thompson – Assistant Restaurant manager

Jessica joined the Tuscany team in March 2007.

Jessica grew up in Wiltshire where she started work in the hospitality trade at 13.

After she finished school, Jessica's f...

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Mark Lawler – Head chef

Mark has worked as a chef within the hospitality trade for more than twenty years.

Mark grew up in the North East and after finishing his studies at North Tyneside College he started his career at La Stella...

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Michelle Bode – Restaurant manager

Michelle joined the team at Tuscany in April 2007.

Before this she worked at Sidney’s Restaurant in Tynemouth for two and a half years.

Michelle studied hospitality administrat...

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Scott Greenwood, Second Chef

Scott is originally from North Shields and is now studying for his NVQ level 3 while working as Sous Chef at Tuscany.

Scott started work at Sidney’s Restaurant in Tynemouth whilst at college and work...

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