Major restaurant groups including Hawksmoor, D&D London, Corbin & King and Mowgli have temporarily shuttered their sites as the Coronavirus pandemic intensifies.
Matthew Dewen, director at hospitality insurance company Full-Time Cover, on why the vast majority of restaurants can’t claim for business interruption during the ongoing Coronavirus crisis.
The government has announced that the business rates holiday is to be extended to all businesses in the retail, leisure and hospitality sector for the next 12 months, to help those struggling with the ongoing Coronavirus.
Over 60,000 people have signed a petition calling on the Government to offer guaranteed support to the hospitality industry as Coronavirus continues to hit businesses.
Restaurant operators are unlikely to be covered by insurance if there was an official government lockdown on bars and restaurants because COVID-19 will not be included in many businesses’ insurance policies.
The restaurant industry has reacted with a mix of anger, confusion and dismay at the Government’s advice that people stay away from pubs and restaurants as containment of the Coronavirus picks up pace.
Restaurant operators need to start asking themselves how they will be able to keep their staff employed while being closed for five to six weeks, according to the co-founder of Big Mamma Group.
Hotel group Best Western Great Britain says it will consider turning hotels into temporary hospitals if the NHS needs additional bed space during the Coronavirus outbreak.
James Campbell and April Lord of law firm Pillsbury on the legal implications the Coronavirus has for restaurants, including risk assessments and force majeure in contracts.
Restaurant companies including Harts Group and Kricket are asking their customers to purchase gift vouchers to combat the Coronavirus’s potentially disastrous impact on their cashflow.
In light of the ongoing COVID-19 health situation William Reed Business Media, publisher of BigHospitality, has taken the difficult decision to postpone the NEC UK Food Shows.
Large hospitality businesses were “utterly ignored” in yesterday’s Budget despite being on the “front line” of the Coronavirus impact, UKHospitality has said.
The Irish private equity firm which bought Patisserie Valerie out of administration last year has merged the café chain with its Bakers + Baristas business.
A number of restaurants in London’s Chinatown appear to have temporarily closed in a bid to limit the impact of the Coronavirus outbreak on their bottom line.
Trade body UKHospitality has warned that more than 200,000 job vacancies across the sector will be left unfilled if the Government’s new immigration bill is enforced in its current form.
My Neighbours the Dumplings head chef Joe Allen and fellow chefs and friends Trung Nguyen and Aaron Thomas are organising a charity dinner to raise funds for Meningitis Now.
After five years and one aborted attempt, Hawksmoor is about to open the doors of its first international restaurant, in New York. What possessed the owners of a meat-focused restaurant to make a play in the home of the steakhouse?
Popular pop up TÁ TÁ Eatery is to end its residency at Tayēr + Elementary in Shoreditch this month, with founders Ana Gonçalves and Zijun Meng looking to take the opportunity to further develop their spin-off katsu sando concept TŌU.
Brakes has put in its best-ever performance at the Chefs’ Choice Awards taking home nine category wins and six awards for Highly Rated products as well as the overall award for best product.
The possibility of an automatic rise in alcohol duty in next week’s Budget has sparked warnings over the impact of price increases from industry trade bodies.
Research revealing it’s often cheaper to book hotel rooms directly, rather than online, has led to renewed calls for a ban on rate parity clauses used by Online Travel Agents (OTAs).
Colman’s has a rich British history and has been a firm staple with the much-loved roast for many a year. But what makes this brand great is the story behind the locally sourced ingredients which deliver its bold, distinctive flavour…
Here, in the first in a series of articles as BigHospitality's guest legal editor, Catherine Gannon, founder of Gannons Solicitors, walks operators through everything they need to know about renegotiating their rent with landlords in a difficult...
Following several residencies and a successful crowdfund, siblings Ifeyinwa and Emeka Frederick have found a permanent home for Chuku’s – London’s ‘first and only’ Nigerian tapas restaurant.
The annual Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants awards event, which was due to the held in Japan next month, will now take place as a live ‘virtual’ awards ceremony.
Restaurants will have to adapt to managing with fewer staff once post-Brexit immigration rules come into force, according to D&D London’s chairman and CEO Des Gunewardena.
Dishoom, Hawksmoor and the Rick Stein Group are among the restaurant operators featured in the Sunday Times 100 Best ‘Mid-sized’ Companies To Work For list 2020.
Industry figures including Hoppers director Karan Gokani, chef Asma Khan, and Oklava founders Selin Kiazim and Laura Christie have spoken out against the Government designating hospitality workers as ‘low skilled’.
London fish and chip group Kerbisher & Malt looks set to disappear from the high street after putting its final bricks and mortar restaurant on the market.
Casual Dining Group (CDG) has offloaded the final four La Tasca restaurants on its books, bringing to an end its ownership of the brand less than five years after originally acquiring it.
The Government’s proposed points-based immigration system will make it less costly for Indian and other Asian restaurants to recruit specialist chefs from abroad.
