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Favourite pie still on the menu as McGinty’s takes over catering at Cove Rangers

Alan Aitken, operations director at the McGinty's Group with Cove Rangers director, Grant Moorhouse. Photo by Wullie Marr / DC Thomson
Alan Aitken, operations director at the McGinty's Group with Cove Rangers director, Grant Moorhouse. Photo by Wullie Marr / DC Thomson

Owners of a chain of popular north-east pubs and restaurants including Silver Darling, No. 10 and Under The Hammer will be offering catering for hungry fans at Cove Rangers Football Club.

The football club has unveiled McGinty’s Group as its new matchday hospitality and catering partner at Balmoral Stadium.

However the popular pies provided by renowned Aberdeen pie maker Byron Bakery and esteemed family butcher H&S Milne will remain on the menu.

Starting from today’s match against League One champions Livingston, McGinty’s will provide meals for hospitality guests in the lounge and operate the kiosks and stalls.

The group will also take over the running of the fan zone, which will be revamped for the start of the club’s debut season in the Cinch Championship on 30 July.

Club chairman, Keith Moorhouse, thanked the side’s previous catering company and welcomed the new operators.

Cove Rangers’s Keith Moorhouse. Photo Scott Baxter

“I would like to thank Gary Johnstone and Teri Greig of Haar Rock Coffee for the work they have done in recent years, and I am now excited to work with McGinty’s,” he said.

“With Cove stepping up to the highest level we have played at, we were looking to expand and improve all aspects of the club, and I have no doubts the new partnership will go a long way to helping us achieve that.

“The McGinty’s Group has an outstanding track record in the industry, and I’m sure we will work well together.

“I look forward to seeing their exciting plans come to fruition.”

Allan Henderson’s McGinty’s Group operates a number of pubs and restaurants including Ferryhill House Hotel,  Fourmile, Silver Darling, No. 10 and Under The Hammer.

Allan Henderson, director of McGinty’s, added: “In our venues, we pride ourselves on providing the finest Scottish hospitality and this will be no different at Cove.

“We look forward to engaging with supporters to ensure they can enjoy their match day experience to its fullest.”

A spokesman for McGinty’s added: “While we intend to enhance the corporate hospitality offering with food produced by our chefs from popular venues like No.10, Ferryhill House Hotel or Fourmile, we have maintained an existing working relationship with Byron Bakery and H&S Milne when it comes to popular matchday offering at newly branded ‘The Balmoral Pie Hut’.”

He also confirmed the cost of the pie would remain at £3.

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