Vince Johnson started out as a waiter before deciding that hotel management was where he wanted to be. After returning to college to focus his skills he worked in HR and operations for a number of hotel chains before landing his first general manager...
A massive 84 per cent of hospitality business owners and managers have said they are not planning to make changes to staffing levels during the Olympics next year despite 15 per cent of workers saying they’d pull a sickie to watch the Games.
Next week BigHospitality is heading to Devon to investigate the region’s bountiful, seasonal produce with a stellar line-up of chefs and restaurateurs – and you could join us.
Twenty-five London chefs, including Richard Corrigan, Michel Roux Jr and Francesco Mazzei, have come out in support of Slow Food UK by attending the launch of its Chef Alliance in London.
International hotel chain Days Inn is set to refurbish its entire Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) estate after a specialist hotel contractor recently completed a multi-million pound fit-out of Days Inn Liverpool.
Austrian-born Stefan Neumann from The Fat Duck restaurant in Bray has won the 2011 Sud de France sommelier competition, held at the Maison de la Region Languedoc-Roussillon in Cavendish Square, London.
Diners are eating out more often each week and having better experience, despite the price of an average meal in London rising by 6.3 per cent in the past year.
International hotel operator Accor is to consolidate its three economy brands – Ibis, Etap and All Seasons - under one name to help it better meet ‘changing consumer expectations.’
Westfield Stratford City, the £1.45bn retail and leisure development located next to the Olympic Park in east London, opens its doors to customers today with almost 70 food and drink sites ready for operation.
Pubs, restaurants and hotels may no longer have to apply for a licence if they want to host live bands or other entertainment if proposals to scrap parts of the Licensing Act are accepted.
Interchange and Consort Hotels, the parent brand of Best Western Great Britain, Beacon Purchasing and Innfutures, has announced the appointment of Richard Lewis as chief executive.
Including calorie information on menus at 181 Harvester restaurants has resulted in diners making small changes to their choices, the operator has revealed.
Roddy Macleod, partner and head of the commercial insurance team at Weightmans outlines where you stand if a customer tries to sue for an accident that happened on your premises, but you don't think your busness is responsible.
JD Wetherspoon has seen total annual sales break the £1bn barrier for the first time, although the managed pub operator blames higher interest charges for a reduced profit before tax and exceptional items of 5.9 per cent.
The Feathers Inn in Hedley-on-the-Hill, Northumberland, has been named the Great British Pub of the Year 2011 after winning the awards’ Best Gastropub category.
Michelin-starred Scottish chef Martin Wishart is behind two fine-dining restaurants in Leith and Loch Lomond, as well as the recently opened The Honours in central Edinburgh.
Over-reliance on temporary staff is costing the hospitality sector £33.4 million a year in initial training and constant recruitment, new research from the government’s industry sector skills council has found.
Over a third of people (39 per cent) say that access to wi-fi internet is a ‘deal breaker’ when choosing a hotel, according to research released by Yorkshire-based broadband provider Plusnet.
Two first-time restaurateurs who previously worked together as documentary makers are to bring a Caribbean dining concept to the huge Westfield Stratford shopping centre, due to open near tratford’s Olympic Park next week.
The Keep It Simple, Stupid approach to food is taking off across the country thanks to a tightening of the consumer purse strings and workers taking shorter lunchtime breaks.
Italian gastronomy event Identità is returning to the UK for the third time next month, the show’s organisers have said, in an effort to “explain the fundamentals of today’s Italian cuisine”.
Most restaurant chain operators are confident that northern UK cities still offer growth potential, despite trading conditions remaining tough in the region.
Six out of ten diners cited being “too full” as the main reason for leaving food on their plates, new research has found, raising questions about whether restaurants are serving overly large portions, contributing to an annual estimated 3 million tonnes...
Earlier this year BigHospitality announced that Jay Rayner, UK chair of the S.Pellegrino World’s 50 Best Restaurants awards would be stepping down from his position of three years.
Representatives from Google are to be among the line-up of companies on hand to offer business advice to the hospitality industry at the Restaurant Show’s Business Bootcamp next month.
The contents of an iconic, 19th Century hotel in Worthing, West Sussex is to be auctioned off next weekend ahead of development plans to transform the building into an upmarket spa hotel and flats.
The British hotel industry is potentially missing out on an additional £39m per night by not allowing pets to stay on the premises, research has shown.
Whitbread, the UK’s largest hotel and restaurant group, has seen sales for the second quarter this year increase by 12.9 per cent, making it one of the fastest growing consumer-facing companies in the FTSE100.
