Former England cricketer Sir Ian Botham is to roll out a new steakhouse and seafood concept called BEEFY'S after the launch of the first site at the Hilton Ageous Bowl in Southampton last week.
London Union, the new parent company of street food market Street Feast, officially launches today with the pledge of changing 'the capital's food landscape forever'.
Imbibe Live, the annual exhibition for anyone who sources, buys or serves drinks in the licensed on-trade is back. Here's our round-up of what's on at this year's show.
Sharing a brand story and telling customers why a product is special using imagery to create an emotional connection will increase sales and encourage brand loyalty.
Sat Bains from two-Michelin starred Restaurant Sat Bains with Rooms in Nottingham was awarded the top accolade at The Craft Guild of Chefs Awards held at the Hilton Park Lane in London last night (15 June).
A boom in pub and restaurant operators opening new sites outside of London saw collective like-for-like sales across the sector grow 2.1 per cent in May against the same month last year.
Leon co-founders Henry Dimbleby and John Vincent, Red Hot World Buffet director Helen Dhaliwal and the co-owners of The Riverside Restaurant in Dorset were among those awarded in the Queen's Birthday Honours List 2015.
London-based independent coffee and cocktail group Grind & Co has today (15 June) launched a CrowdCube campaign to raise £1.5m towards national expansion and allow the company to take control of its own supply chain.
In the first of our In Operation with... video series BigHospitality talks to Graham Hall, the managing director of CAU about the business, its aims and what helps to make it a success on a daily basis.
Andrew Ball, head of hospitality at chartered accountants Haysmacintyre discusses what hospitality business owners should be considering when joining an aggregator.
Including plenty of photos and displaying room rates in the right currency are some of the ways hoteliers can guarantee that guests book direct through their own websites rather than with OTAs.
The Arora Group has partnered with Greenwich Council to launch a recruitment and apprenticeship campaign which is designed to encourage employment for its new hotel - InterContinental London - The O2 - from within the Royal Borough of Greenwich.
Australian TV chef and food writer Bill Granger has achieved considerable fame with his intelligent yet laid-back approach to cooking and peerless breakfast dishes. But with an expanding international restaurant group he wants to be known for more than...
Restaurants including Nando’s, Wagamama, Costa, Pret A Manger, Starbucks, KFC, and Subway will be supporting Apple Pay when it launches in the UK next month.
Pret A Manger and the Spirit Pub Company were among hospitality businesses recognised for their sustainability efforts at the Footprint Awards last week (4 June).
One of the UK’s most influential restaurant chains is finally gearing up for serious growth and intends to build a healthy presence outside its London heartland within the next few years.
London businesses are set to be benefit from another record year for tourism with visitor spending set to rise to £13bn in 2015, according to the Mastercard Global Destinations Cities Index.
Loungers, the Bristol-based cafe/bar group, is forecasting run-rate turnover for its current financial year to rise to £78.8m producing a run-rate site EBITDA of £17.4m, as it expects to reach 83 sites by the end of April 2016.
Technology in pubs, bars and clubs is perceived as improving the customer experience by 52 per cent of people and as many as 67 per cent of people in the 24-35 age group, as consumers’ expectations have shifted to view technology as a necessity not a...
'Super budget' hotel operator EasyHotel is moving forward with plans to expand both its owned hotel portfolio and its franchise business after seeing sales more than double during the last year.
Former Fat Duck chef James 'Jocky' Petrie has joined Gordon Ramsay Group (GRG) as its group executive development chef to help 'develop and nourish the talent and creativity' across the group.
As the global culinary community descended on London's Guildhall last night to find out who made the list of the Worlds 50 Best Restaurants, BigHospitality was on hand to report the action.
