Roka, Rainer Becker’s contemporary Japanese robatayaki restaurant brand, is doubling its footprint in the UK with two new venues opening in London next year.
Alan Murchison Restaurants Ltd, which operated the Michelin-starred L’Ortolan restaurant in Berkshire, has been put into voluntary liquidation after running up debts of almost half a million pounds.
Tesco has opened a Giraffe restaurant at its flagship Extra store in Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, and will open two more in its Extra stores before the end of the year.
David Cameron has vowed to support upcoming young chefs in the UK’s ethnic restaurant sector, but the Prime Minister admitted that the difficulties importing skilled chefs from the Indian subcontinent will take some time to solve.
Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) claimed to be on track with its business transformation programme after reporting sales and profit growth in its annual financial results.
Iqbal Wahhab, the founder of successful London restaurants Cinnamon Club and Roast, has received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of West London for his services to the hospitality industry.
Having recently been announced as the chef replacing Gordon Ramsay at Claridge’s, Simon Rogan is not taking his eyes off of his flagship L’Enclume, with the completion of a major investment into the restaurant’s adjacent test kitchen, Aulis.
Premier Inn has unveiled plans to create 8,000 new jobs over the next five years, half of which will be targeted at long-term unemployed 16 to 24-year-olds.
The best managers in the industry have been honoured at the Institute of Hospitality’s 75th Anniversary Gala Dinner, held last week at The Westbury in London
La Sala, the famous restaurant and bar in Marbella, Spain, is planning to launch and roll out in the UK with serial restaurant entrepreneur James Horler on-board as the new company’s chairman.
The newly-appointed Minister for Sport, Tourism and Equality Helen Grant has heaped praise on the hospitality and tourism sector for its financial contribution to the UK and its ‘sharp focus’ on job creation.
Less than a month after being named as ‘the worst hotel chain in the UK’ by consumer watchdog Which?, Britannia hotels has reported a 69 per cent fall in pre-tax profits due to ‘additional demands on the business’.
Clutch, a ‘new breed of chicken restaurant’ is coming to roost in London's East End next month, capping off a year that has seen a host of poultry-led concepts flocking into the capital.
The recent announcement that London Underground trains are to run for 24 hours at weekends has been hailed as ‘excellent news’ for the capital's hospitality businesses.
Indian Summer Kitchen, the Brighton-based Indian restaurant operator, plans to become the UK’s largest Indian restaurant chain and has revealed target areas for expansion to our sister title M&C Report.
By his own admission, US-born banker turned global hotelier Mike DeNoma struggles to even spell ‘hospitality’, but he certainly understands the voice of the customer and is an expert when it comes to market research. As chief executive of newly formed...
The hospitality industry's food waste bill could reach as much as £3bn by 2016 if businesses fail to take action, a new report by the Waste Resources Action Programme (WRAP) has found.
The inflation-busting price rises announced by ‘the big six’ electricity and gas firms are set to hit the hospitality industry hard this winter, with 67 per cent of business owners claiming they will no longer meet their growth targets due to the punitive...
Dominvs Hospitality has announced plans to develop two hotels in Aberdeen after gaining planning permission to build on a four acre site next to the city's airport.
The head chef of Chewton Glen hotel in Hampshire is going solo to pursue his lifelong dream of owning a Michelin-starred restaurant with the opening The Elderflower in nearby Lymington next year.
Tourism has become a ‘bedrock’ of the UK economy, generating a third of the UK’s new jobs between 2010 and 2012 and escalating in value to now be worth around £127bn – 9 per cent of the UK’s GDP.
Creativevents and The Fine Food Company have won a five year contract worth more than £4m to supply catering to visitors of the Royal Horticultural Society's (RHS) Hampton Court Flower Show.
Travelodge has today announced the appointment of a new chief executive, with former Safestore Holdings boss Peter Gowers replacing Grant Hearn after 10 years of service with the budget hotel operator.
A new study into the UK hotel industry has revealed that many businesses are in danger of failing to attract modern-day travellers, with a separate survey confirming that free internet is becoming a must for the vast majority of guests.
The importance of holding meetings to clinch business deals has been emphasised by hotel group Crowne Plaza who has found that those who don’t invest enough time in face-to-face contact could be missing out 24 per cent of additional revenue.
Ibérica Restaurants, the three-strong Spanish group led by two-Michelin-starred chef Nacho Manzano, is actively looking to expand outside of London with plans for up to 10 UK sites in the next five years.
Hospitality House, the Hospitality Guild’s state-of-the-art training and meeting venue in London, was officially opened yesterday by the Minister for Skills and Enterprise, Matthew Hancock.
Hotel companies who want their guests to book with them directly should look at adjusting their pricing, suggests new research, which finds that on average people save up to 15 per cent when booking through an online travel agent (OTA) compared to booking...
The Bespoke Hotel Group has announced plans to develop a historic building in Manchester into the 60-bedroom Gotham Hotel, which chairman Robin Sheppard wants to be 'the sexiest hotel in Europe'.
Britain has ranked for the first time within the top 10 most welcoming nations while also retaining its third place as Overall Nation Brand for the third year running.
Chef Peter Gorton is backing an innovative new Restaurant Academy in Plymouth designed to combine modern brasserie dining with a centre of excellence that will launch the careers of the next generation of young hospitality professionals.
Two-Michelin-starred chef Claude Bosi says he must not turn a blind eye to the increasing ‘casualisation’ of fine-dining as he looks to try and keep people flocking through the doors of his Mayfair establishment Hibiscus.
Brunning and Price, the Chester-based pub company owned by The Restaurant Group, is opening three more sites by the end of the year, with an ‘even busier’ pipeline next year.
The Mayor of London Boris Johnson has this week launched ‘Foodsave’, a new scheme to help foodservice businesses maximise profits by reducing food waste and diverting surplus food away from landfill and towards useful purposes.
Café Football, the football-themed venue from former Manchester United teammates Gary Neville and Ryan Giggs, opens in Westfield Stratford next month with two-Michelin-starred chef Michael Wignall overseeing the new restaurant’s menu.
German-born Petra Wetzel gave up a career in law six years ago to save the restaurant, bar and brewery in Glasgow she'd bought for her ex-husband to run. A self-confessed new-born 'beer nerd' Wetzel has grown the beer hall considerably...
