Plan Your Visit to Food & Bev Live 2020

The venue for Food & Bev Live is conveniently located 20 minutes from both Dublin International Airport and Dublin City Centre… The venue - Citywest Hotel, Conference & Event Centre is situated off junction 3a of the N7 Dual Carriageway. Citywest Hotel offers superb access to both Dublin and major Irish road links. For more information about our the Citywest Hotel's sustainability policies, please read below.

The full address for Food & Bev Live 2020 is…

Citywest Hotel, Conference & Exhibition Centre
Saggart,
Co. Dublin
Telephone: 0818 903  539
International dialling: +353(0) 1 401 0500
Reservations contact number: +353(0) 1 401 0500

Directions

BY ROAD:

Directions from Dublin International Airport…

  • Exit the Airport and follow the signs for the M50.
  • Take the M50 Southbound and follow it through the toll bridge and take second exit to the N7 (towards Limerick & Cork).
  • After approximately 4 miles you will see signs for Citywest Business Campus.
  • Take the next exit marked by brown traffic signs for Citywest Hotel.
  • Exit off the N7 and carry straight on for about a mile.
  • Citywest is on your right.
  • Call Citywest Hotel, Conference & Exhibition Centre on +353(0)1 401 0500 if you need help.

From Dublin City Centre, Dublin Port and Dun Laoghaire Port:

  • Follow signs for 'The West' or 'The South'
  • You will come to the M50 ( Dublin orbital )
  • Follow signs for 'The South' and exit the M50 onto the N7 ( towards Limerick and Cork )
  • After about 4 miles you will see signs for Citywest Business Campus, ignore this exit and take the following exit marked by brown traffic signs for Citywest Hotel.
  • Exit off the N7 and carry straight on for about a mile.
  • Citywest is on your right.
  • Call Citywest Hotel, Conference & Exhibition Centre on +353(0)1 401 0500 if you need help.
 
From Limerick, Cork and Kerry:

  • Follow the N7 through Naas towards Dublin.
  • After about 6 miles exit left following the signs for Saggart.
  • Drive into Saggart and turn left at the crossroads following the signs for Citywest Hotel.
  • After half a mile Citywest is on your left.
  • Call Citywest Hotel, Conference & Exhibition Centre on +353(0)1 401 0500 if you need help.
 
From the rest of Ireland:

  • Follow signs for Dublin and you will come to the M50 (Dublin orbital).
  • Follow signs for 'The South' and exit the M50 onto the N7 (signed for Limerick and Cork).
  • After about 4 miles you will see signs for Citywest Business Campus, ignore this exit and take the following exit marked by brown traffic signs for Citywest Hotel.
  • Exit off the N7 and carry straight on for about a mile.
  • Citywest Conference & Exhibition Centre is on your right.
  • Call Citywest Hotel, Conference & Exhibition Centre on +353(0)1 401 0500 if you need help.

PUBLIC TRANSPORT

Take the LUAS:
Visitors to Food & Bev Live 2020 can take the RED LINE LUAS to Citywest Hotel, Conference & Exhibition Centre. Take the LUAS Red Line from Dublin City Centre Connolly Train Station to Saggart. Click here for more information.
Take the Bus:
Dublin Bus route 69 goes directly to Citywest Hotel, Conference & Exhibition Centre. Alternatively Routes 77a + 65b go to CityWest Shopping Centre which is just a 5 minute journey away from the venue. See www.dublinbus.ie for more details.

                                                 CITYWEST HOTEL SUSTAINABILITY POLICY
The Citywest Hotel recognises its responsibility to respect the environment and is committed to achieve environmental best practice, where practically possible throughout its business activity.
We continually seek ways to conserve and protect natural resources, to minimise wastage of raw materials and energy, whilst providing a consistent and quality product and service to our guests.
We conduct internal environmental reviews and annually assess our progress towards an improved environmental performance and revise as necessary.
Our customers and guests are made aware of our sustainability policy and to give them the option to help us achieve them.
To ensure our team of staff are aware, involved and encouraged to be proactive in wanting to work to and improve our environmental policies.
Activities that are established at The Citywest Hotel include: –
Energy Conservation
  • Instillation of new boiler systems to reduce the energy output and lower carbon footprint.
  • Use of Energy Saving bulbs
  • Encourage a “switch off policy” with staff and guests
  • Ensure staff are aware of requirement to turn down/off radiators thermostats when rooms are not booked out
  • Endeavour to print literature on recycled paper and an aim to go paperless where possible.
  • In periods of low occupancy, appropriate sections within the hotel are isolated so heating can be turned off and lighting reduced to emergency levels only
  • Regular boiler checks
  • Purchasing of energy efficient equipment
  • All Bedroom wings have a key entry card system which automatically turns off the power when the room is not occupied
  • Reducing Waste Recycle/Re-use
  • Use fabric napkins as much as possible not paper ones
  • Use recycled products wherever possible
  • Move towards using environmentally friendly products in our catering outlets, paper straws, paper cups, wooden cutlery etc.
  • Move towards using environmentally friendly cleaning materials, and Micro fibre cloths
  • Recycle Kitchen oils
  • We have our own in-house water bottling system whereby filtered water is supplied in branded re-useable glass bottles, significantly reducing our glass bottle wastage and reducing the need for plastic thus reducing our carbon footprint
Water Consumption
  • Laundry, by reducing the quantity of towels we wash, we reduce water consumption, energy and use of detergents
  • Good maintenance program – mending leaking taps
  • Full loads in washing machines and dish/glass washers
Food Consumption
Food is produced and sent to the Hotel/restaurant. Preparation waste or uneaten food no longer fit for consumption is placed into red Food Surplus Management, FSM 240L bins. Thrice weekly FSM call and collect the complete bins and replace them with clean ones which have been washed through their customised bin washer line. They do not empty the bins on site in the traditional bin lorry manner thus avoiding the need for regular onsite washing, which is better for the environment. Also, clean bins every time encourages staff to place the food waste in the correct bin thus minimising environmental impact.
The food waste is brought to the FSM plant in Co. Meath using specialised double decker vehicles to maximise payload and collection efficiency. There the bins are washed, and the food waste is transferred to bulk vehicles for onward shipping to the A.D. anaerobic digestion facility.
At the A.D. plant, the food is broken down in large sealed tanks by bacteria, (much like what happens in the human digestive system). This process produces methane gas and a residue known as digestate.
The bio-methane gas is then fed into engines which produce electricity to be fed directly into the national grid.
The digestate is used to produce a compost like fertiliser for use in Agriculture. How food waste within Citywest Hotel is recycled and managed.
Management of food waste
The process for managing the food waste is detailed above however there is also an additional element in Citywest Hotel around awareness among all staff members.
  • Internally all staff are briefed on the Food Waste processes and the benefits and reasons for it
  • Staff are trained on managing food waste and the bin usage.
  • Communication Briefing are carried out regularly along with informational posters displayed at staff noticeboards.
Recycling and waste minimization are just some of the ways Citywest Hotel is fuelling it's eco-friendly policy. Citywest Hotel are using bio-degradable straws, forks and knifes in the coffee dock. We reuse 80% of our coffee beans in our flower beds and also mix coffee beans into our sand and seed mix which we then use twice a week to fill in divots made by golfers through the golf course.
The exchange of the bins (3 to 4 times weekly) increases hygiene levels and encourages greater diversion of food waste from general waste as chefs and kitchen porters are not “put off” by the accumulation of food waste and odours that can arise using the traditional brown bin emptied on site.
 
 
In the last 12 months:
255.2 tonnes of catering waste from the hotel was diverted from landfill resulting in the following outputs:
  • Renewable energy produced – 102.0 Mwh
  • CO2 emissions savings by diverting from landfill – 127.6 tonnes
  • Fertiliser digestate produced – 51.0 tonnes
 
The above was compared to the first 6 months from 2018:
144.5 tonnes of catering waste from the hotel was diverted from landfill resulting in the following outputs:
  • Renewable energy produced - 57.8Mwh
  • CO2 emissions savings by diverting from landfill -72.2 tonnes
  • Fertiliser digestate produced - 28.9 tonnes
Responsible purchasing (to reduce the environmental impact of the hotel caused through travel)
  • Use of all local Irish produce where possible.
  • Develop and increase responsible purchasing methods to include sourcing products using suppliers that maintain ethical practices: Keywaste, Bowley’s Coffee, Food Surplus Management
  • The use of Fair-Trade Coffee “Bowley’s”, Organic and Rainforest Alliance certified products where possible
Guest contribution
  • Laundry, we give guests the option to not have their towels laundered everyday
  • We request for equipment not to be left on standby or prolonged charging
  • To turn down the heating before opening the windows
  • We are open to any suggestions from guests that will aid our sustainability
Environmental
  • Wildflower garden developed to encourage bees and natural habitats
  • Bug unit in our garden to encourage natural inhabitants.
  • Aim to install Beehives on our land to produce our own honey.
  • Bat Boxes installed to improve local bat population.
 
Achievements to date:
2005 – 2019 Citywest Leisure Club has won the white flag award for achieving an impeccable sustainability standard.
2019 – Winner of the South Dublin Chamber Sustainability Award 
2018 – Citywest Hotel Repak Award Runner up – Food Waste Management