The number of hospitality businesses falling into administration increased by 19.3 per cent in 2011, indicating that the sector was one of the worst hit by the economic crisis.
Restaurants, pubs and hotels, including Macdonald Burlington, Pollen Street Social, Barracuda and Best Western tell BigHospitality about special events and promotions they're running to attract more customers.
Fuller’s, the brewer and pub operator, has announced they are to acquire 15 freehold, tied and tenanted pubs from the pubco Enterprise Inns in a deal costing the London-based company £22.9m.
Jamie Oliver has acquired a site in Winchester for the first Union Jacks restaurant outside London it has been confirmed, while the successful Italian casual dining concept Jamie’s Italian will see five more openings before Autumn amid plans for a further...
Richard Muir has worked in the industry for the past 30 years, starting out as a chef before moving into corporate catering. He was managing director of Sodexo’s UK corporate business and opened restaurants for Gary Rhodes before buying and redeveloping...
Intercontinental Hotel Group (IHG) has revealed ambitions to establish it's managed estate Holiday Inn and Crowne Plaza brands as market leaders in the meetings industry after 14 sites secured accreditation from the Meetings Industry Association...
With two major events happening in Britain this year - the Olympics and the Queen's Jubilee, food trends agency The foodpeople is predicting a rise in demand for classic British dishes on menus in 2012.
Hotels in London are being warned that they could be putting the lives of guests with hearing loss at risk by not having appropriate procedures in place for emergency situations.
Cliveden House Hotel, the former Von Essen property in Buckinghamshire, has been sold to the billionaire property developer brothers Ian and Richard Livingston.
The number of European hotel transactions has risen by nine per cent since 2010 and the UK remains the most active investment market of them all, with total transaction volume of €2.7 billion.
Hoteliers Ian and Christa Taylor have announced plans to invest £1.5m in the hotel they have just bought – the Abbey in Bath – to transform it into an ‘affordable mid-market boutique hotel’ which they say would help strengthen the city’s tourist offer.
In April, the Campaign for Real Ale (Camra) is to launch a new national pubs campaign, Community Pubs Month, to champion local pubs which are at the heart of communities across Britain.
Six months on from the August riots, BigHospitality has spoken to Jan Topcu who, with fellow graduate and business partner Fabio Teixeira, was able to transform a derelict bank into a thriving restaurant in the heart of Tottenham.
Chef demonstrations from Aiden Byrne and Ben Spalding feature in the line-up for this year’s Northern Restaurant & Bar show in Manchester alongside the announcement of the first NRB Top 50 list of industry operators in the North.
Gordon Ramsay and his company Gordon Ramsay Holdings (GRH) have reached a settlement with Chris Hutcheson and three other members of his family over a claim that they were unfairly dismissed from the company, bringing to an end a two-year dispute.
With multi-cuisine, buffet-style outfits continuing to gather pace in the UK, Za Za Bazaar – the big-hitting newcomer which holds claim to the largest restaurant in the country– is set to open its second site, with fellow restaurateurs beginning to take...
TripAdvisor has been told it can no longer claim that reviews posted on its website are from real travellers or are ‘honest, real or trusted’ following a ruling by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA).
Chef Richard Phillips has closed his restaurant at Chapel Down Vineyard in Kent after the local council restricted the number of weddings it could hold.
The number of vocational qualifications being offered to secondary school pupils is to be cut to 125 from the current 3,175 to better improve students’ prospects, the Department of Education has announced.
The Considerate Hoteliers Association has teamed up with the Green Tourism Business Scheme and Greentraveller.co.uk to promote sustainable tourism and hospitality businesses.
With Hotelympia on the horizon the hospitality industry is gearing up to descend on the ExCel centre, but with five days (26 February-1 March) of awards, product launches, chef demonstrations and more it can seem a daunting prospect, so BigHospitality...
Chefs and caterers are being urged to take a second look at their menus, or risk missing out on a potential £700m market of diners hungry for more enticing meat-free options.
Foodservice supplier Compass Group has launched Rapport – a new specialist provider of front and back of house guest services – to run in tandem with the group’s corporate dining arm Restaurant Associates.
Macdonald hotels & Resorts, the UK’s largest privately owned hotel operator, has added the historic 48-bedroom Haycock Hotel in Wansford near Peterborough to its portfolio.
The Green Tourism Business Scheme (GTBS) has become the first sustainable certification programme of its kind to be endorsed by all five National Tourism Agencies of the UK and Ireland.
The London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games (LOCOG) has released around 20 per cent of the hotel reservations it had made for the Games, meaning more than 120,000 hotel room nights in the capital will now be vacant during...
Employers in restaurants, hotels and pubs and bars have been encouraged to take advantage of the extra time that has been provided before they need to comply with automatic pension enrolment obligations.
Love is in the air this week as hotels and restaurants, including May Fair, Blakes, One-O-One and The Royal Horseguards, tell BigHospitality about special events and promotions they’re running to attract more customers this Valentine’s Day.
Masterchef's Gregg Wallace is to open a 1970s themed restaurant in the Bespoke Hotels venue, the Bermondsey Square Hotel, close to the area where the TV host and former greengrocer grew up.
Fuller's, the brewer and pub operator, has reported like for like sales growth of 4.1% for the 42 weeks up to 21 January 2012 ahead of a busy year of sport and acquisition openings for the London-based company.
With six months to go until the London 2012 Olympics begin, the majority of businesses have not prepared themselves for the Games, according to a survey by hospitality skills council People 1st.
In the consumer-led world of hospitality, it is easy to underestimate the power of the internet. But with well over a million Google searches for ‘London hotels’ being made every month in the UK, and an ever-increasing number of restaurant bookings made...
The winners of the 2012 Business Travel Awards have been announced with Whitbread's budget hotel brand Premier Inn and hotel chain Jurys Inn both taking away prizes.
Vegan restaurant group Saf is trialling an ‘express’ concept at London department store Harvey Nichols with plans to roll out the idea to more sites in the future if it proves a success.
Scottish golfing resort Turnberry has started to target the family market to help boost business during golf’s low season as corporate trade remains stagnant.
With another year plagued by a poor economic backdrop, hotels in London were able to record a second consecutive year of profitability growth in 2011, but provincial properties suffered a fourth successive year of profit decline.
Good weather around Christmas 2011 helped keep Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) festive sales buoyant, the managed pub operator has reported, with like-for-like sales up 6.5 per cent for the nine weeks to 21 January.
With more than two-thirds of chefs and kitchen staff incurring injury in the workplace at least once a month, current first aid provision in commercial kitchens needs tightening up according to a survey by food hygiene specialist DayMark.
An industry taskforce chaired by the British Hospitality Association featuring representatives from restaurants, hotels and pubs and bars has submitted a report of recommendations on cutting red tape and regulations to the Tourism Minister John Penrose.
Hilton London Olympia has opened Society - a completely redesigned bar and restaurant featuring Victorian-inspired interior, new menus and a new logo identity.
The British Institute of Innkeeping (BII) has teamed up with Kensington and Chelsea College (KCC) to offer local employers access to a new business-boosting apprenticeship in licensed hospitality.
Jason Atherton’s Pollen Street Social has joined an elite list of restaurants including The Ledbury, The Fat Duck and Gordon Ramsay after being scooping the BMW Square Meal Restaurant of The Year 2011 Award.
As part of Food Allergy & Intolerance Week Allergy UK has called for guidelines or enforced training for restaurants and hospitality businesses on their diners allergens and intolerances.
The UK Border Agency's head of Immigration, Jeremy Oppenheim, outlines how employers can check whether foreign nationals have the right to work in the UK.
