The team behind food start-up business support programme Kitchenette are to launch a summer pop-up in Islington which will give potential entrepreneurs the chance to hear from some of the industry's success stories including MeatLiquor founder Yianni...
Less than a year after launching its first restaurant on Regent Street, Japan Centre Group has doubled up on its Shoryu Ramen concept with a permanent site replacing its pop-up venue on Denman Street in Soho.
The lineup for the Annual Hotel Conference (AHC) 2013 has been revealed and Kevin Roberts, chief executive of Saatchi & Saatchi, will open the event, while Robert Cook, chief executive of De Vere Hotels and De Vere Village Urban Resorts, will be the...
Revolution bar operator Inventive Leisure has announced it is to spend £6.6m on rolling out a new format for its venues following successful trials in eight sites.
With less than a week to go before Mark Sargeant takes over the F&B operations at the Great Northern Hotel in King’s Cross, the former Claridge's chef has admitted that he will be staying firmly out of the kitchen as he looks to concentrate on...
Consolis Payments has launched a small, low-cost EPoS system for small and medium sized businesses to enable customers to pay bills in a variety of ways.
The seafood maestro and co-owner of The Seahorse in Dartmouth has just opened a second site of his casual seafood brand, Rockfish Seafood and Chips, in Plymouth.
Leo Rodley, executive chef at 76 Portland Place, has launched a campaign - Real Food - in order to encourage event catering chefs to showcase their use of quality, seasonal produce and change the negative stereotypes surrounding meeting and event food.
Southern-inspired American restaurant group The Diner has acquired a site in Old Spitalfields Market for a seventh restaurant which is set to open this August.
Thistle Hotels is on a mission to become the UK’s leading meetings, incentives, conferences, and exhibitions (MICE) brand with the announcement of a multi-million-pound investment into two of its largest properties and a new conference-focused F&B...
Sadek Ahmed and Tom Johnson, who met while working for Tragus Group at the Café Rouge in Cheltenham, have opened Tarragon - their first restaurant - in the town.
Battersea neighbourhood restaurant Ransome's Dock will close its doors next month after 21 years in business to allow chef-patron Martin Lam and wife Vanessa to take some time off.
The restaurant arm of Pizza Hut UK believes raising service standards through staff training and performance reviews is the first step towards the future success of the business.
Damson & Co, a new British concept which combines an independent coffee shop with a British-themed deli bar, has just opened the doors of its first outlet – a 20-cover venue on Brewer Street in Soho.
Just weeks after planning ‘Tax Parity Day’ for the hospitality industry, Jacques Borel’s VAT Club has written to every pub in the country, calling for their support in its on-going efforts to reduce VAT to 5 per cent.
Jerry Brand of integrated technology provider Caternet suggests ways hospitality managers can cut the hours they spend dealing with paperwork after research it commissioned showed that 86 per cent of food and beverage managers were spending too much time...
With the hospitality industry suffering from low levels of staff retention, nearly three-quarters of businesses working across the sector now believe that training holds the key, with an increase in budgets required to reduce turnover rates.
Cornish cider-maker Rattler has created a lower-alcohol draught version of its 6% abv cloudy cider Rattler Original in response to demand for a draught cider that can be served at festivals and on-trade outlets.
Constancia, a family-run Argentinian restaurant in Bermondsey, has just opened a pop-up venue in Shoreditch Food Village with a view to eventually securing a bricks-and-mortar site in East London.
Suffolk-based hotel group TA Hotel Collection has stepped up to run the Chef's Academy at North Suffolk Skills Academy (NSSA) in a bid to secure future talent for the hospitality industry.
Renowned British designer Sir Terence Conran is doubling up on his British café concept Albion, with the opening of Albion NEO Bankside on London’s South Bank later this month.
Chefs and restaurateurs have been advised to keep their menus simple and look at streamlining processes within the kitchen to help keep their business thriving while food prices continue to rise.
P&G Professional has created special cleaning packs for operators who are just starting out in the hospitality sector which it says will help them create the right impression from the start.
The serviced apartment sector has more space to grow in Europe, but will only do so if operators can continue to appeal to the 'cost-conscious' consumer a new report suggests.
Market research firm BDRC Continental, a leading provider of hospitality intelligence, has combined its three main customer experience programmes for hotels and meeting venues under one brand - VenueVerdict.
Five Guys, the popular US burger chain, which launched its first UK site to long queues last week in Covent Garden, is understood to have secured a third site here, at Westfield London in Shepherd’s Bush.
Starwood Hotels & Resorts has completed an extensive renovation of The Park Tower Knightsbridge hotel which is part of The Luxury Collection brand operated by the US-based company.
Companies and professional bodies in the hospitality sector are to be asked to support a new series of vocational qualifications for 16 to 19 year-olds.
Yotam Ottolenghi has revealed he has decided not to renew the lease on his smallest site on Holland Street in Kensington and will be closing the deli with a view to opening a larger site next year.
The hospitality and tourism industries have welcomed news that VisitBritain's funding is to be cut by less than expected and VisitEngland's budget is to be frozen.
Nespresso has partnered with French Michelin-starred chef Mauro Colagreco to create Crealto - a Nespresso Grand Cru coffee inspired by gastronomy - which will be exclusively available to business customers for a limited period this summer.
Zaks, the Norfolk-based American diner restaurant group, has revealed details of a franchise scheme which it hopes will see 30 new diner restaurants open in the next five years.
Manchester United star Ryan Giggs and former United defender and pundit Gary Neville have together launched a football-themed hospitality company with a restaurant being launched in Westfield Stratford later this year and a hotel opening in Manchester...
New York restaurateur Danny Meyer, who opens the first branch of his burger restaurant Shake Shack outside of the US in London tomorrow, believes there is plenty of space within the market for more burger restaurants, saying he welcomed the arrival of...
The eight chefs who will battle it out at The Restaurant Show to be crowned National Chef of the Year 2013 have been revealed after four toughly-contested semi-finals.
Lancashire-based root vegetable grower Huntapac has launched a packet of crisps using its vegetables which will be exclusively available to wholesale buyers.
The co-owner of a new restaurant in Watford has said the domination of branded restaurant chains and fast food outlets is making it increasingly difficult for independents to stay afloat and contributing to Britain’s obesity crisis.
Warwickshire-based business CD Pub Co has added a third venue to its portfolio of food-led pubs, having purchased the freehold of The Lygon Arms in Feckenham from Enterprise Inns.
Property developer Patrick McKillen has today suffered ‘a complete and total defeat’ at the hands of the billionaire Barclay brothers after losing his latest appeal in a two-year dispute over the ownership and control of the Maybourne Hotel Group.
Less than a week after DoubleTree by Hilton entered Dundee, Hilton Worldwide’s upscale hotel brand has added the DoubleTree by Hilton London Hyde Park to its growing portfolio, following a £10m refurbishment of the 228-bedroom property.
Despite being continually battered by a perfect storm of high taxes, cheap supermarket alcohol and grim economic times, pubs across the UK remain resolute in their work with charities, raising more than £106m in the past year alone – an average of £2,742...
