The Cheltenham scene
Montpellier and the Suffolks carry a genuinely strong independent restaurant and bar scene for a town of this size, and the racecourse's Festival week is one of the single biggest concentrated hospitality events in the UK calendar.
Where teams here come under pressure
Festival week distorts everything — recruitment, rotas, expectations and stress — and a lot of Cheltenham's annual turnover happens in the six weeks after it. Managing the comedown is as important as managing the week.