Taking the decision to leave his position as operations manager at successful bar and restaurant group Rising Star Leisure, Jayke Mangion opened his first solo venture, Entrée, in Battersea Rise just seven weeks ago
Restaurants, hotels and pubs, including Benares and Paradise by way of Kensal Green, tell us about the extra activities they're planning to attract customers
David Cameron has pledged to ‘stand fully behind every effort’ to boost British tourism, as he aims to make Britain one of the top five tourist destinations in the world
We look at how the restaurants at St. Martin's Courtyard, London's newest dining destination, are operating, and how they expect to trade once the area opens to the public
Cantina Laredo, the US-based upmarket Mexican restaurant chain, has opened its first restaurant in Europe, in the St Martin’s Courtyard development in London’s Covent Garden, and stated that it intends to open a total of 35 sites across the UK and Ireland
David Ramsden, chief executive of the Edinburgh-based Dogs restaurant group, on making the transition from fine to casual dining, finely tuned margins and ambitious expansion plans
Health Secretary Andrew Lansley may force restaurants and pubs to display calorie counts on their menus if they do not respond to attempts to instate a voluntary system
Restaurants, hotels and pubs, including Mango Tree and Corrigan's Mayfair tell us about the extra activities they're planning to promote the Glorious Twelfth and game season
Action Against Hunger has launched an emergency response to help the 2.5m people affected by severe flooding in Pakistan, and is asking British restaurateurs and diners for their help
Orient-Express Hotels has received more than £3m in damages from the owners of the former Cipriani restaurant in London’s Mayfair, according to its latest results
Labour leadership hopeful David Miliband hopes to give tenants the choice to opt out of the beer tie and reinstate a pubs minister under a new campaign to save the British pub
Harry Miles is the head concierge of the London Marriott Grosvenor Square Hotel. Miles has clocked up an impressive 31 years service at the hotel (previously the Europa) and has seen a huge amount of change, in an ever evolving role
Restaurants, hotels and pubs, including El Pirate de Tapas and Peckforton Castle, tell us about the extra activities they're planning to make their businesses more appealing
Most people rarely get things spot on first time around, and setting up a restaurant, pub or hotel business is no exception. But if you don’t get the design and branding on your second or even third site perfect, you’re in trouble of damaging your business.
If you have funding in place to grow your single restaurant, pub or hotel into a chain, the current economic uncertainty presents an opportunity to gain a foothold in the property market and start along the road to building your empire.
A clutch of operators that took part in a Food Standards Agency trial of labelling menus with calorie information have decided not to continue with the scheme
With many a bank notoriously reluctant to lend to the hospitality sector in the past, how do you pay for expansion and who is likely to lend and help you build your restaurant, pub or hotel empire?
BigHospitality puts one reader's question about what to look out for when acquiring a new restaurant, pub or hotel property to Simon Chaplin, director at property agent Christie & Co
Restaurants, hotels and pubs, including Harvey Nichols and those at Westfield London tell us about the extra activities they're planning to make their businesses more appealing
The chief executive of Orchid Group, the biggest start-up the pub industry has seen, saw his company fall into and subsequently emerge from administration to become the largest food-led pub operator in the R200 list
The World Cup and recent spate of good weather has given a boost to trade at Enterprise Inns (ETI), the leased and tenanted pub operator revealed this morning
Following speculation last week that the Food Standards Agency would be axed, the government has today announced the industry body will continue running, but without its responsibilities for nutrition and labelling
Gourmet Burger Kitchen operator Clapham House Group has reported a 50 per cent increase in profits, although it expects trading to remain ‘challenging’ for the rest of the year
Restaurants, hotels and pubs, including Dean Street Townhouse and Tamarai, tell us about the extra activities they're planning to make their businesses more appealing
Tim Gardner is director and co-owner of The Lonsdale Bar and Restaurant in London’s Notting Hill. After a career spent working for others the revitalised cocktail bar is Gardner’s first solo project
A selection of R200 members and industry experts, including Jo Barnes from Sauce Communications and Steven Pike from the Mystery Dining Company, give their advice on running a multi-site operation post-recession
