Hospitality operators are being forced to set up their own development and training schemes and even adapt roles to fit around candidates’ strengths as a shortage of skills hampers recruitment plans.
Fresh from seven years with Clare Smyth at Restaurant Gordon Ramsay, and two years with Andrew Pern at the Star Inn, Steven Ellis is raring to go with Oxford Blue, opening in Windsor in late summer within two 19th century cottages that used to belong...
Brazilian restaurant group Cabana is gearing up for an ‘amazing summer’ as it aims to bring the spirit of the Rio Olympics to the UK through its restaurants and beach pop-up.
Front-of-house staff at Hawksmoor's Spitalfields restaurant have been trained in British Sign Language (BSL) to enable them to better communicate with each other and with their deaf and hard of hearing customers.
East-Anglian based hospitality business The Chestnut Group is planning to add another six sites to the business over the next four years as it looks set to complete its ‘largest capital raise’ so far.
A top Soho restaurant has become the first fine-dining venue in London to permanently offer a fully vegan tasting menu in response to growing customer demand.
Clare Smyth, the first female chef in England to hold three Michelin stars, is in advanced talks on a site in London’s Notting Hill for her own restaurant, according to BigHospitality's sister site MCA.
More than £53m is to be ploughed into a Kent-based town centre regeneration scheme that will see the opening of a Travelodge and six restaurants next autumn.
Leased pub owner Punch is pushing forward with plans to boost its accommodation business across the UK after seeing success with a pilot scheme in Scotland.
Interstate Hotels and Resorts Europe has signed 13 new management contracts for hotels in the UK, bringing its total number of UK-based operational and signed pipeline hotels to 74.
Trade at the first Punch Taverns pub to partner with Harry Ramsden’s has doubled since the iconic fish and chips brand took over its operations according to its head of pub operations Gavin Mansfield.
The organiser of an initiative which gives people with disabilities the chance to test their hospitality skills in a commercial setting is looking for support from more independent restaurants following the success of its pilot event.
Travelodge has acquired three mid-market branded hotels - Ramada Encore hotels in Milton Keynes and Chatham and a Days Inn in Derby - boosting its estate to 530.
Randy’s Wing Bar, the pop-up chicken wing concept, has become the latest operator to confirm its opening in the Canalside area of Hackney’s Here East development.
Perle Hotels, the owner and operator of three hotels on the Isle of Skye, is selling The Broadford Hotel to enable it to focus on its other properties.
Jamie Oliver's commercial social enterprise and restaurant Fifteen Cornwall turns 10 this year. Its chief executive Matthew Thomson talks about celebrating a milestone birthday, the benefits of running a social enterprise in hospitality and what...
