Loungers, the 94-site casual dining group of brands Lounges and Cosy Club, has been acquired in a majority stake deal by Lion Capital, in a £137m deal.
More than 20 chief executives and business leaders from the UK’s leading eating and drinking out chains have penned a letter to the Prime Minister Theresa May asking her to “consider a reduction in VAT, extending transitional relief on business rates...
Dakota - the boutique hotel group created by Malmaison founder Ken McCulloch - has revealed plans to open in all the UK’s major regional cities by 2021.
From service charge controversy at Le Gavroche, and Gary Usher's crowdfunding, to a £403m deal for Punch pubs, we round up the industry's biggest stories this week
The Châteaux & Hôtels Collection – presided over by chef Alain Ducasse – is to partner with Airbnb to offer a range of bedrooms, and gourmet experiences, on the sharing website.
Heineken has moved one step closer to acquiring the lions share of Punch Taverns' pub estate, after three of the pubco’s top shareholders gave their support.
North London-based restaurant and bar operator The Masseria Group has opened a café and deli in Kensal Rise on the site of its former barbecue restaurant Austen's Smokehouse.
Chef Francesco Mazzei, current chef-patron of D&D London’s Sartoria restaurant in London’s Mayfair, is to launch a new Italian restaurant in Islington in March 2017.
Currently more than two-fifths (43 per cent) of workers in the restaurant, QSR, hotel and pub sectors in the UK are foreign nationals, according to latest figures from Fourth Analytics.
Michel Roux Jr, owner with his family of the two Michelin-starred Le Gavroche restaurant in London’s Mayfair, is to scrap tipping in favour of including a service charge on all bills.
Fair tips campaigners from Unite will gather outside Fortnum & Mason later today (Thursday) in protest at what they say is a 'Scrooge-like' raid on staff wages and service charge payments at the luxury store's restaurants.
Somewhere making its way across the Atlantic is a shipping container packed with three metric tonnes of corn. According to the calculator on Sam Hart’s iPhone, that should be enough to make 225,000 10cm tortillas, which should keep his soon-to-open Borough taqueria...
Nick Bennett, who was a finalist in last year’s BBC MasterChef: The Professionals, has been promoted to head chef at Restaurant 56 in the 49-bedroom Sudbury House Hotel in Oxfordshire.
The UK-based Thai Leisure Group – owner of the Thaikhun, Chaophraya and Yee Rah restaurant brands – has been recognised by the Royal Thai government as an authentic source of Thai cooking.
The Gordon Ramsay Group (GRG) is planning to 'enhance' the offering at its Plane Food restaurant at Heathrow's Terminal 5 after securing a 10-year extension of the contract.
Cyrus and Pervin Todiwala of Café Spice Namaste are reviving their Adventure Gourmet programme where they plan to showcase the cooking skills of chefs such as Ben Tish, Simon Hulstone and Francesco Mazzei
The Albion and East Group – from restaurateur Sarah Weir, previously of Mitchells & Butlers and PizzaExpress, and backed by the Imbiba Partnership ‒ is to open its first cocktail bar and dining hall, Martello Hall, aimed at the "Millennial working...
MPs are being asked to consider the challenges facing hotels and other tourism businesses situated in the countryside as the organisation representing them contemplates how rural tourism will be supported post-Brexit.
Caravan, the three-strong restaurant and coffee roaster group, is to open a new roastery, brew bar and café north of London’s King’s Cross in Spring 2017.
Home Grown Hotels and Lime Wood Group, the owner of The Pig Hotels and Lime Wood, have appointed a people director to 'nurture and develop new recruits and long-standing team members'.
Chef Mark Birchall has spoken of his plans to build a 'busy, successful business' as he gears up for next year's opening of his first solo restaurant Moor Hall.
Crieff Hydro has secured contracts to operate two more hotels in Scotland - the Green Hotel in Kinross and Kings House Hotel in Glencoe, growing its hotel business to 10.
Chef Gary Usher – of the restaurants Sticky Walnut, Burnt Truffle and Hispi Bistro ‒ has confirmed plans to open a fourth bistro, this time named Wreckfish, in Liverpool, early next year.
Tom Beasley, founder and CEO of Wired Media gives advice to hoteliers looking to boost direct bookings through their own websites and includes design tricks to help increase direct enquiries.
Soul Food Enterprises, the restaurant company from Bea Vo of Stax Diner and Boondocks, has secured a new venue in London’s Kentish Town to launch new concept The Famous Flames.
Gleneagles, the five-red-AA-star, 232-bedroom luxury hotel resort in Perthshire, Scotland, has announced a new hotel manager, executive chef, and director of leisure.
Aviary, the latest restaurant and bar from the ETM Group, has opened on the 10th floor of the 253-bedroom Montcalm Royal London House, after first being announced in August.
Restaurants across the UK have been warned to watch out for a scammer seeking free food and drink in return for a ‘review’, after a scam email came to light this week.
Boparan Restaurant Group (BPG), the parent company of the brands Giraffe World Kitchen, Ed’s Easy Diner, Wondertree and Harry Ramsden’s, has announced Tom Crowley as new chief executive.
Tom Byng is to step down as chief executive of Byron, the better burger business he founded in 2007 and has grown to a £80m-turnover, 69-strong business.
There’s no doubt that interest in beer, both from the trade and consumers, has grown markedly over the last few years, yet, as a match to food beer is still overshadowed by wine.
