The crowning of the World's Best Bar, the second launch from Mexican Japanese restaurant brand Los Mochis, and fresh details of Richard Caring's brash Greek restaurant Bacchanalia are among this week's most read stories in hospitality.
Food and drink price inflation in hospitality rose to 15% in August, the first time it has done so in the history of the CGA Prestige Foodservice Price Index.
Top ingredients supplier Wellocks has announced its next Chef & Producer Show, which will held on 18 September 2023 at Lancashire Cricket’s Old Trafford in Manchester.
This week's top news articles include the launch of a major review into Britain's visa systems, the closure of Aktar Islam's Pulperia and a change of site for seminal London restaurant Ikoyi.
The hospitality industry came together in their thousands at Olympia London for The Big Hospitality Expo 2022, the leading UK trade show for the hospitality sector.
Homeless charity StreetSmart is on the hunt for new restaurant partners to join its annual Christmas campaign to raise vital funds to support people living on the streets.
The death of Soho legend Andrew Edmunds and the Government's intervention in the energy crisis for businesses stole the headlines in the hospitality sector this week.
Like-for-like sales at Britain’s managed restaurant, pub and bar groups in August were 2% ahead of the equivalent 2019 pre-Covid period, the latest Coffer CGA Business Tracker shows.
Insolvencies of pubs, bars and restaurants have increased 59% in the past year, according to data from the Insolvency Service, amid rocketing energy prices.
This week's top news stories include chef Tony Parkin leaving The Brickmakers Arms after two months in the role, and a Government review into mandatory calorie counts on menus.
This month's round-up of job news includes new roles for Swedish chef Robin Freeman and former Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park director of restaurants Mark Hastings.
Phil Howard's new London pasta restaurant, the Government's intervention in the energy crisis, and tributes being paid to the Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II are among the most read hospitality stories this week.
The hospitality sector continues to face high levels of inflation despite relief in some commodities, the latest edition of the CGA Prestige Foodservice Price Index shows.
This week's top news stories include warnings the energy crisis could lead to mass business failures, BrewDog shuttering six sites, and Operation: Falafel announcing its London debut.
Delivery and takeaway sales for restaurants and pub groups were down by 19% in July, compared to July 2021, according to CGA’s Hospitality at Home tracker.
Only half of Britain’s 10 biggest city centres are experiencing growth in out-of-home food and drink sales as momentum slows in the sector, new data shows.
UK restaurants saw an 8% increase in transactions during the summer bank holiday (27-29 August) compared with the previous year, according to the latest figures from Barclaycard.
There has been a significant drop in the numbers of high street chain stores closing, with restaurants seeing net growth, according to new data from PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC).
Action Against Hunger UK has signed up over 200 restaurants for its annual Love Food Give Food campaign, which sees diners add an extra £1 to bills to help the charity support people across the world experiencing life-threatening hunger.
Hospitality trade bodies have renewed their call for urgent Government help amid soaring energy costs following today’s (26 August) energy price cap announcement from Ofgem.
The forthcoming closure of Kew restaurant The Glasshouse and the release of figures that show that three quarters of pubs and bar face extinction because of the energy crisis stole the headlines this week.
The managing director of Scoop Restaurants Group on the key role QSR Automations plays in consistently delivering exceptional quality plates of food and a memorable dining experience at his Southeast Asian brand Ka Pao.
The Burnt Chef Project has published a new Work Related Stress Guide, designed to help employers and leaders tackle work-related stress within the workplace.
This week's top news stories include a new high-end Japanese restaurant heading to Manchester, a decline in the number of international workers in UK hospitality, and Robert Wood's latest venture.
A first of its kind event exploring the opportunities in diversifying beyond bricks and mortar restaurants and expanding into new sales channels is being launched.
Britain’s licensed sector has stabilised in the second quarter of 2022, the latest Market Recovery Monitor from CGA by NielsenIQ and AlixPartners reveals.
As many as 196,000 international workers including some 120,000 EU workers have left the UK hospitality sector since 2019, a new report from specialist hospitality hiring partner Caterer.com reveals.
UK inflation hit a new 40-year high of 10.1% in July, official figures show, with industry voices demanding the Government finally introduce a reduction on VAT for the sector.
Job vacancies in the hospitality sector dipped slightly between May and July this year, according to the latest official figures, but remain at a record high.
July’s like-for-like (LFL) sales at Britain’s top managed pub, bar and restaurant groups held steady against pre-Covid levels of July 2019, the latest Coffer CGA Business Tracker reveals.
The City of London has seen a net decline of one in seven licensed premises since March 2020, the new Market Recovery Monitor from CGA by NielsenIQ and AlixPartners reveals.
This week's top news stories include the JKS Restaurants brining its Arcade food hall concept to Battersea, the closure of Bristol's Pony Bistro and the reveal of the 10 chefs that will vie to become the 2022 National Chef of the Year.
With the help of OpenTable, DC-inspired restaurant and bar venue Park Row in London's Soho has the tools it needs to boost demand and increase bookings.