Punch Taverns, the UK’s second largest operator of tenanted pubs, has become the latest hospitality business to join Jacques Borel’s VAT Club which seeks to reduce VAT to five per cent as a way of stimulating job creation.
Michelin-starred Birmingham chef Glynn Purnell has announced he is to close The Asquith restaurant in September with plans to re-open the site under a new bistro brand.
In our new-look Ideas from your Peers column, we evaluate the effectiveness of special offer, promotions and initiatives that hospitality businesses are running in an attempt to boost business. This week, we’re looking at ETM Group’s Docklands pub, The...
In the final part of our special feature on securing investment for your hospitality business our focus turns to private investment: from love money courtesy of friends and family to equity houses and venture capital.
Thai restaurateur, chef and TV cook Khun Patara Sila-On founded her first restaurant in Bangkok in 1973. Since then the S&P syndicate global restaurant, bakery and frozen business she created has opened hundreds including her first in the UK in 1990.
An array of senior travel and tourism industry bosses from Brazil, Russia, India and China are heading to Britain for VisitBritain’s World Travel Leaders Summit taking place on 4-6 August.
Kerbisher & Malt, the fish and chip restaurant in Brook Green, has opened the doors of a second London venue in Ealing, featuring advanced bookings, table service and al fresco dining.
Steve Easterbrook has left Pizza Express after less than a year as chief executive, joining fast-casual noodle chain Wagamama as successor to Steve Hill.
Chef Aiden Byrne has joined forces with Living Ventures, the Manchester-based pub, restaurant and bar group in a bid to help the company regain the city a Michelin star.
Bounce, a 12,500sq.ft ‘social ping pong club’ combining 17 table tennis tables with cocktails and high-end dining, is set to open in London’s Holborn in October.
The London 2012 Olympics have so far failed to bring the benefit of extra trade to restaurants in London’s West End and City areas with some actually reporting a sales drop of up to 70 per cent.
Hotels in London recorded the worst financial performance of 2012 in June, with the extended holiday for the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee combined with Government warnings of transport disruption and fears over accommodation pricing before the Olympics leading...
Meatailer, the company behind MeatLiquor and MeatMarket, is hoping to open a further three outlets - two in London and one in Brighton - according to M&C Report.
Whether you’re a budding entrepreneur with a bold idea for a new restaurant concept or a successful hotelier with plans to expand an already popular business, there’s one thing you’ll always have in common – a bank account.
Jonathan Sheard, UK & Ireland managing director of the Accor brands MGallery and Mercure, has told BigHospitality there are 10 possible locations around the country suitable for an upscale MGallery hotel to join venues in London and now Bath.
Budget hotel chain Premier Inn has exceeded one million sq.ft of new hotel space constructed or contracted since March and the business in on track to deliver its development target of three million sq.ft by the end of the year, with 14 properties in...
Dixcart Bay hotel on the island of Sark has become the most highly rated business by the Sustainable Restaurant Association (SRA) so far this year after scoring highly in areas such as waste management and sourcing.
Independent wine merchants Corney & Barrow has officially re-launched with a fresh brand identity and a three-pronged hospitality offering in London comprising C&B Bars, Cabin Travel Bars and Terrace Restaurant and Bars.
Death by Burrito – a contemporary Mexican grill and cocktail bar conceptualised by Shay Ola of fine-dining and events group the Rebel Dining Society – is set to open at the Catch bar in Shoreditch this September.
The founders of Brighton nightclubs Madame Geisha and Haunt have unveiled plans to open a new Victorian-style experimental dining, drinking and live entertainment venue on London's Upper Street this autumn.
The five candidates who will battle it out for the chance to represent the UK in the 2013 World Chocolate Masters competition were revealed at a special launch event at London's Gherkin last week.
Managed pub operator Orchid has given full control of its Premium Bars & Restaurants (PBR) division to Eclectic Clubs & Bars in a bid to ‘focus on the core business and the assets that it owns’.
UK hospitality operator and brewer Young’s is set to open The Foley - a modern-day coaching inn, comprising a 17-bedroom boutique hotel, pub and dining room, in the Surrey village of Claygate.
The wait is finally over as the London 2012 Olympics kicks off with the opening ceremony this evening. BigHospitality rounds up what the 17-day event could bring for your business and looks at whether it will actually have an overall positive effect on...
Bar and nightclub operator Novus Leisure has been sold to new investors LGV Capital and Hutton Collins for £100m in a deal that will see the new owners supporting the strategy to double its central London portfolio over the next three years.
Rohit Chugh landed his first position in the restaurant industry as managing director of Cinnamon Club in 2004. In 2008, he set-up its sister site, Cinnamon Kitchen. Chugh then decided to fulfil a lifelong ambition to run his own Indian street food restaurant,...
TV shows like Great British Menu have led to a resurgence in popularity among chefs for cooking banquets or developing event catering, so BigHospitality went behind the scenes at a fine-dining three-course meal for 2,000 at the Royal Albert Hall to find...
Brownsword Hotels is to reposition Washbourne Court in Gloucestershire, one of the former Von Essen country house hotels it bought out of administration last year, as a pub with rooms.
Morgans Hotel Group, the New York-based hospitality management company with boutique hotels across the US and in London, has today announced that its new 234-bedroom Hudson Hotel will open in 2015 at Great Scotland Yard in St. James’s, London.
With just one day to go before the London 2012 Olympics opening ceremony, hotels in London have slashed their prices by 17 per cent in the past three weeks in a bid to fill any remaining rooms.
The Savoy Educational Trust is this week urging young people to sign up for Tower Hamlets ‘Futureversity’ summer courses which will help them gain skills and qualifications in the hospitality industry.
Two reports released this week have shown that many hotels and conference venues across the capital believe that the London 2012 Olympics will leave a positive legacy for them after the Games have ended.
Latin American restaurant chain Las Iguanas plans to expand from 27 sites to over 40 across the UK in the next two years, with two new outlets opening this autumn in Plymouth and Aberdeen, BigHospitality has learnt.
A proposal to open a Studio School in Liverpool that will help train 14-19 year-olds to work in hospitality, tourism and culture, has been approved by the Department for Education to open in September 2013.
Two Michelin-starred chef Nathan Outlaw is to open his first London restaurant this autumn after agreeing to take over the restaurant space at Knightsbridge hotel The Capital.
A cross-Whitehall committee or 'Star Chamber' is set to meet in the next few weeks to consider hospitality industry proposals to cut red tape and regulation, Tourism Minister John Penrose has revealed.
Restaurateur Iqbal Wahhab has outlined plans to grow Mooli’s, the Indian street food concept he acquired earlier this year, into a multi-site brand with the ambition of it becoming an ‘Indian Pret A Manger’.
A number of hoteliers are introducing or improving spas at their hotels to entice corporate and international guests as a new report suggests more than a third of people booking a hotel see the presence of a spa as a key decision in their choice.
Pub restaurants have been the greatest beneficiary of UK diners eating out more frequently over the last year according to Horizons' latest QuickBite survey.
In a wide-ranging, exclusive video interview for BigHospitality, Tourism Minister John Penrose has ruled out making a VAT cut for the hospitality industry a long-term ambition for the Government and has said businesses still need to show why a cut would...
Iqbal Wahhab, founder and owner of London restaurant Roast, has joined Gordon Ramsay in urging prisons to do more to arm offenders with skills and qualifications to work in the hospitality industry at the end of their sentences.
Australian hotel management business StayWell Hospitality Group has announced it is to make its UK debut in 2014 when the Park Regis Birmingham opens with further hotels planned in London, Manchester and Edinburgh.
Occupancy among hotels in the capital dropped 9 per cent in June as the Diamond Jubilee failed to cancel out growing economic problems in Europe, however London and the UK continues to lead the continent in pipeline terms.
Almost seventy per cent of hotel guests believe cleanliness and hygiene to be the most important factor when making recommendations about a hotel to friends and colleagues, a survey has found.
Deep discounts, special offers and the use of daily deal websites could soon become a thing of the past for restaurants and pubs as customers are becoming more attracted to outlets which offer rewards for loyalty as opposed to money off, according to...
