Hospitality Rising has won official support from the Hospitality & Tourism Sector Skills Board (HTSB) to be the strategic face of the industry’s biggest ever recruitment campaign.
Raymond Blanc's Brasserie Bar Co has been acquired by Alchemy Partners for an undisclosed sum, with the new owners planning an accelerated growth of its White Brasserie Co pub brand.
Richard Caring has said he is 'not intending to pursue' a deal to acquire Corbin & King after the group was placed into administration by its majority shareholder last month.
Food and drink travel hub business SSP says that its group revenues were at around 62% of 2019 levels for the four-month period to 30 January 2022, as the impact of Covid on the travel sector continued to bite.
Hospitality and tourism bodies have renewed calls for the Government to permanently cut the rate of VAT for the sector, saying it will save billions and create millions of jobs.
Hawksmoor has achieved its target to become a carbon neutral company some 11 months earlier than initially planned, and is now setting its sights on becoming a net zero company.
UKHospitality has called on the Government to expand its planned reforms to the alcohol duty system to help further support beleaguered businesses as they recover from the pandemic.
A group of UK publicans and brewers have written an open letter to Chancellor Rishi Sunak calling for a levelling up of the high tax rates that are burdening businesses.
Corbin & King co-founder Jeremy King has described his business as being “under siege” from majority stakeholder Minor International and insists that the restaurant business is in “rude health and as profitable as ever”.
Corbin & King co-founder and CEO Jeremy King has vowed to buy back the group that bears his and business partner Chris Corbin's name after it was placed into administration last night (25 January) by major shareholder Minor Hotels.
Corbin & King has filed a motion in the High Court to stop its majority owner, Minor Hotels, calling in a £35m loan, which would have forced it into insolvency.
It has been confirmed that trading restrictions on indoor hospitality settings in Scotland will be lifted next week, with nightclubs able to reopen again following an enforced four-week closure.
The City of London Corporation is launching a new grant scheme to support Square Mile businesses that have been hit by restrictions introduced in response to the Covid-19 Omicron variant.
The Night Time Industries Association (NTIA) has called for so-called vaccine passports to be scrapped nationwide, saying they are 'neither proportionate nor effective' in controlling the spread of Coronavirus.
Brighton Pier Group has reported a 9% rise in trade over the New Year period at its bar venues, despite trading being impacted due to the additional Covid restrictions.
Caffè Nero has completed a £330m debt refinancing with a syndicate of three banks, effectively fending off the takeover ambitions of the Issa brothers.
The hospitality sector has welcomed the Government's decision to reduce the isolation period in England for those who test positive for Covid-19 from seven days to five.
Wales is set to gradually move back to Alert Level Zero by the end of the month, removing trading restrictions that have been in place since late December.
McDonald’s is launching a rewards scheme that will enable customers to collect points on their purchases and redeem them against menu items or make a charity donation.
Just Eat saw orders on its platform rise to 1.1 billion last year as the pandemic continued to keep people out of restaurants and ordering takeaway food instead.
Delivery and meal-kit business Dishpatch is to launch a new initiative next month aimed at giving a platform to 'lesser-known voices and trailblazers' within the hospitality sector.
Hospitality businesses in Scotland will continue to face tight restrictions on indoor trading for at least another week, with the sector accusing the Scottish Government of leaving it 'in limbo'.
The owners of Scottish-based bar and restaurant brands MacMerry 300 and Abandon Ship have been accused of 'systemic mistreatment' in a collective grievance signed by both current and former staff.
A leading hospitality trade group has called on the Government to further relax England's self-isolation rules, as businesses continue to wrestle with crippling staff shortages.
Tortilla has reported a like-for-like sales increase of 23.8% in the 2021 financial year compared to 2019, with group revenue up 36% across the same period.
