Hotels, restaurants and pubs in the UK's coastal locations are set to cash-in this summer as more Brits than ever are planning to spend their summer holiday or take a mini-break at a seaside resort.
As more corporate guests decide to extend their stay in many hotels for a leisure break, Mark Anderson, deputy manager of the Royal Garden Hotel in Kensington, London, gives his top tips to tapping into the 'bleisure' market.
Michelin-starred chef Nathan Outlaw and pastry consultant Will Torrent have teamed up at Outlaw’s at The Capital to create a new afternoon tea in honour of the Queen.
International hotel group Accor is planning to plant 10m trees by 2021 using money saved by guests reusing towels instead of sending them to be washed.
The hospitality sector risks heavy penalties for non-compliance when rules surrounding the EU General Data Protection Regulation change, a law firm has said.
Spanish-style group Tapas Revolution is to open its biggest site yet in Newcastle as part of a wider expansion plan throughout the UK, founder Omar Allibhoy has said.
Harry Cragoe, owner of The Gallivant restaurant with rooms in Camber, pays all his staff a minimum of £9 per hour and has launched the #toohiptotip campaign to ban service charges in restaurants. He believes more hospitality businesses need to use a similar...
Geoff Booth, centre director for the School of Hospitality at Westminster Kingsway College in London, is to leave his role at the end of the academic year to focus on his chairmanship with the Professional Association for Catering Education (PACE).
A report by the House of Lords is calling for an urgent investigation into the way online platforms, such as online travel agents (OTAs) and reviews websites are allowed to operate to ensure greater transparency for consumers and fairer competition for...
A number of restaurant and pub groups believe that 2016 is going to be a tougher year than 2015 as they deal with a slowdown in sales growth and uncertainty around the forthcoming EU referendum.
Compass Group UK & Ireland is working to tackle the shortage of female chefs in the industry by pledging to have at least 50 per cent of its chef workforce made up of women by 2020.
The UK representative for an international event designed to encourage health and well-being is rallying hotels and restaurants to get behind it and make the most of its promotional opportunities.
Italian craft beer specialist The Italian Job has overreached its crowdfunding target of £350k by £72k giving the company the chance to push forward with plans for its second site.
One in three people would visit restaurants more often if they served a range of British craft beer, new independent research for the Society of Independent Brewers (SIBA) has revealed.
Holborn Dining Room, the restaurant at Rosewood London, has opened a gin bar which its owners claim stocks the largest collection of gins in the capital.
Asian hotel operator Compass Hospitality has acquired its second hotel in the UK since receiving a funding boost from The Royal Bank of Scotland earlier this month.
Jason Atherton’s the Social Company is to host chefs Tom Kerridge, Sat Bains and Claude Bosi at this year’s second annual fundraising ‘Social Sunday’ for industry charity Hospitality Action.
The number of short breaks Brits intend to take within the UK is set to increase this year as worries about personal safety overseas curb appetites for holidays abroad.
Restaurant and bar group Drake & Morgan is to open three new sites over the next 12 months, including its first and second openings in Manchester, and a venue in West India Quay.
Lancashire-based food, drink and accommodation business The Seafood Pub Company will open its eighth site this summer after acquiring former pub The Forest Inn in Pendle.
Chef Jason Atherton – of sites including the Michelin-starred Pollen Street Social and City Social in the UK ‒ has said that bullying in restaurants is still an issue in today’s industry.
The Craft Guild of Chefs has announced its 2016 Chefs Awards nominations, including top chefs Allan Pickett from the newly-opened Piquet, Steve Groves from Roux at Parliament Square, Will Holland at Coast Restaurant, and James Mackenzie at the Pipe and...
Indian chef Cyrus Todiwala, with his wife Pervin, is the chef-proprietor of Café Spice Namasté, Mr. Todiwala's Kitchen, and Assado, including sites at the Hampton by Hilton in London's Waterloo and at the Hilton London Heathrow Airport T5. He...
Alongside established restaurant Café Spice Namaste, Indian-born chef Cyrus Todiwala owns two hotel restaurants - Assado at Hampton by Hilton London Waterloo and Mr Todiwala's Kitchen at the Hilton Heathrow T5. He shares his thoughts on hotel restaurants...