Andy Oliver and Mark Dobbie of Som Saa, a popular Thai cuisine pop-up operating in London, have overreached their crowdfunding target and are ready to move the restaurant to a permanent location within the capital.
Hotel operators should leave food and beverage (F&B) operations to outside contractors and focus on filling rooms to boost profits, says The ONE Group CEO Jonathan Segal.
The hospitality industry’s desperate need for more staff has been highlighted in the latest Report on Jobs by the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) and KPMG.
Small and medium-sized hospitality businesses (SMEs) such as restaurants, pubs and bars are more optimistic about future growth than those in other major sectors.
Jamie Oliver and campaign group Sustain have today (4 September) launched a Children’s Health Fund to encourage restaurants and cafes to impose a tax on sugary drinks.
Over a quarter of the British public are either ‘unhappy’ or ‘fairly unhappy’ at the idea of being given a disabled-accessible hotel room, research released by German bathroom and sanitaryware supplier HEWI shows.
Hospitality businesses reported healthy profit growth for the three months to August and remain positive about the future despite concerns over staff shortages.
Almost 5m Brits are shunning the continent and planning a UK break this bank holiday, generating over £1bn for the British economy, according to figures released by Visit England.
High street chains are beginning to use increasingly eclectic ingredients inspired by independent and street food operators in a bid to attract customers, a new study shows.
International tourists who visit the UK primarily to shop spend 80 per cent more during their stay than those visiting for other reasons, according to research by VisitBritain.
Hotel owners in Europe will be more likely to opt for franchise agreements with brands than management agreements over the next five years according to property advisor CBRE.
More than 70 per cent of restaurant and pub operators believe the introduction of the National Living Wage for the over-25s next year will have a negative impact on their businesses, according to a survey carried out by M&C Allegra Foodservice.
A study by HospitalityGEM has shown that 87 per cent of diners would not return to a pub or restaurant if they have experienced slow service from staff.
Restaurants, pubs and hotels all saw a rise in sales in July, but it was a month of two halves due to the changing weather, according to analysis by Barclaycard.
The number of candidates applying for jobs in the hospitality industry has fallen despite a rise in job vacancies, according to a report by recruiting website CV-Library.
Hotel prices in Edinburgh have risen above London, Geneva and Venice to be the most expensive in Europe this month, according to hotel search site Trivago.
Giving incentives to staff and customers for gathering and giving feedback and making it a quick and easy process for all involved are the best ways to capture worthwhile data from customers, according to pub, restaurant and hotel operators.
A new wave of chefs are moving into the pub sector as restaurant sites – particularly those in central London – become both prohibitively expensive and difficult to get hold of, writes Joe Lutrario in the August issue of Restaurant magazine.
A report has found that 80 per cent of people say that word-of-mouth has the biggest influence on where they decide to eat, four times more than social media.
A Glasgow hostel has invested £750,000 in bespoke suites in the year in which ‘poshtels’ are predicted to become one of the most dynamic sectors of the UK hotel market.
International hotel group Accor's restructuring of its property portfolio and overall 'cultural transformation' of the business helped push up pre-tax profits by 68 per cent to 91m Euros in the first half of the year.
Over a quarter of consumers would like to see improved technology in pubs to allow them to work away from home, according to the latest Greene King Leisure Spend Tracker report.
The number of single-cover reservations has risen by 110 per cent in the last two-years, according to a study by online restaurant reservations group OpenTable.
Britain’s eating out sector experienced an unexpected dip in June with consumers dining out infrequently and spending less money, according to Horizons' latest report.
Premium wines are continuing to buck the trend of overall declining wine sales in restaurants, pubs and gastropubs, with the sector experiencing double digit sales growth year-on-year.
