As the sixth annual National Apprenticeship Week draws to a close, an array of hotels, restaurants and pubs – and even Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg – have supported the initiative which promotes the positive impact that apprenticeships can have on...
The Government is reportedly considering dropping plans for a minimum per unit price for alcohol after pressure from Cabinet Ministers who don't back the policy and concern from the Treasury about the effect it would have on revenues from alcohol...
Food travel firm SSP is set to open a new pub - The Grain Loft - in Manchester airport which will feature high-tech elements including 'sound pods' and self-service beer points.
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has heaped praise on a report from the British Hospitality Association (BHA), which indicates that 300,000 new jobs could be created across the UK by 2020 if the Government works more closely with hotels, restaurants and...
Community Pubs Minister, Brandon Lewis MP, yesterday launched an advice hotline for communities looking for help in taking over the running of their local pub.
Dinner by Heston Blumenthal has been judged to have the lowest level of hidden salt in dishes on its menu compared to other so-called celebrity chef restaurants, according to a new report released by Consensus Action on Salt and Health (CASH).
Chefs and foodservice operators are being advised to use more seasonal ingredients in their menus over the coming months as food inflation and rising British meat prices in the wake of the horsemeat scandal look set to squeeze margins further.
The sixth National Apprenticeship Week kicks off today with organisers, supported by the hospitality industry, promising it will be the biggest yet; a new report has also said apprentices could contribute £3.4bn a year to the economy.
Pub operator JD Wetherspoon has opened its latest hotel and pub in Beccles, Suffolk, and will launch another venue in Whitby later this month ahead of further planned openings.
Frederick Forster, the 2011 winner of the National Chef of the Year contest, has joined forces with Miele to launch a pop-up restaurant which, it is claimed, is totally 'calorie-neutral'.
To mark International Women's Day, mentoring programme Women 1st has announced it has trained 1,000 hospitality leaders with the aid of Thistle Hotels, while Boost Capital has revealed it is launching a £10m fund to support female entrepreneurs.
Leading hospitality trade bodies, including the BBPA, have signed a new partnership with the Department for Work & Pensions (DWP) as businesses are urged to take advantage of the wage incentives available to them.
DoubleTree by Hilton has announced it has signed franchise agreements for three more UK hotels as the brand looks set to operate 25 properties in the country by the end of the year.
The number of UK hotel transactions dropped by 12 per cent in 2012, but there is good news on the horizon according to one industry expert who claims 2013 could be ‘the year of the portfolio deal’.
Ninety-five per cent of hoteliers in the UK plan to either keep room rates the same or increase them this year as travellers finally look to up their travel budget, a survey carried out for TripAdvisor has found.
Long hours, unskilled work and few career development opportunities: the hospitality industry, and pubs in particular, are constantly fighting to change these perceptions of jobs in the sector but now the team behind a new initiative gaining momentum believes it...
‘Technology is driving everything’, according to a recent report based on a survey of company bosses across the eating and drinking out sector, which discovered that two-thirds of businesses will be heavily investing in digital marketing this year.
London brewer Meantime Brewing Company has launched Brewery Fresh, the UK's first tank beer, in three Young's pubs in the capital and is hoping to introduce the system it calls 'beer utopia' to other hospitality businesses.
Brighton chef and restaurateur Sam Metcalfe has blamed rising food costs for the imminent closure of his renowned restaurant Sam’s of Sevendials and has revealed he is now looking for a new tenant for the property.
Marriott International has teamed up with Inter Hospitality, a division of the Inter Ikea Group which owns the famous Ikea trademark, to launch economy brand Moxy Hotels which the operator hopes to rapidly expand to 10 countries.
Thirteen hospitality businesses have made it onto the 2013 Sunday Times 100 Best Companies to Work For list, with TGI Friday’s (3), Hawksmoor (5) and Living Ventures (9) all taking spots in the top 10.
The Association of Licensed Multiple Retailers (ALMR) has questioned the conclusions of a University College London (UCL) report which claimed levels of binge drinking may be higher than previously thought.
Three reports have further outlined the difficulties faced by UK hoteliers in 2013 as widespread agreement now predicts a fall in occupancy and hard work for regional hoteliers despite continued investor interest.
In the final part of our series of special articles on technology in hospitality, BigHospitality paid a visit to three of the most high-tech restaurants, hotels and pubs to investigate the business benefits for a special video report.
Hospitality technology developer Talisyn has released Ophelia Interactive - an update to its system which allows hoteliers to directly control a number of information channels on their hotel room's TV sets.
Two-and-a-half-years after Admiral Taverns was hit by the recession, the tenanted pub group has reported a ‘robust’ performance for the 52 weeks to May 2012, disposing of 259 sites for £48.8m and spending £8m on capex to put the business ahead of its...
Managed pub and restaurant operator The Orchid Group has revealed it has completed the first refurbishments of its Great British Carvery pubs as it looks to refresh the estate over the next two years.
Amidst the ‘perfect storm’ of a weak economy, lack of support from Government and low consumer confidence, locally brewed beer has offered a lifeline to Britain’s pubs, with volume sales up by an estimated 6.8 per cent last year - in contrast with on-trade...
The world of technology is, by its very nature, driven by innovation and change. Ordering room service through smartphones, dining with on-table touchscreens and browsing drinks lists on iPads are not visions of the future, they are happening right now.
Provincial hotels risk experiencing yet another year of profit decline unless 2013 brings better economic news, according to a new report released by TRI Hospitality Consulting.
Hannah McIntyre, a hospitality technology expert, has launched mylivehospitality - a cloud-based system which allows operators to view and control all aspects of their businesses in one place.
Petrol forecourt operator EuroGarages has taken on the leases of five former Little Chef sites for conversion to coffee shops under a licensing arrangement with Starbucks.
Technology can sometimes feel at odds with the hospitality industry’s core values. After all, diners and guests will rate their experience in a restaurant, hotel or pub on skills and services that ultimately only human beings can deliver, such as the...
Whitbread, which owns the Premier Inn, Beefeater and Costa Coffee chains, saw a 12.9 per cent sales growth in the 50 weeks to 14 February 2013, and the company is now launching a full investigation into its meat supply chain after falling foul of the...
Pubs and bars operators across the UK could reap ‘spectacular rewards’ if they enhanced their offerings of cider, which is closing in on beer in terms of consumption. But many customers say they are not always aware that the product is on offer.
The Oaka Group, which operates four hospitality businesses in Peterborough and Birmingham, is to open its first site in London - a pub and restaurant combining real ale from Oakham Ales and pan-Asian cuisine.
In the first of a week of news stories detailing launches of technology products for the hospitality industry to support our special feature, BigHospitality reveals details of the latest update to Posera's Maitre’D EPoS software.
Hotels across the UK suffered a drop in RevPAR in the first month of the year with the poor weather and the timing of the New Year Bank Holiday both blamed.
The restaurant industry in 2025 will have to face lower profit margins and greater technological challenges, although robotics will help improve efficiency, according to a new report.
Reading and responding to posts left by guests on online review websites takes up to three hours out of a hotel general manager's working week, a survey has shown.
UK restaurateurs serving Asian and specialist world cuisines have welcomed news they should be able to continue to employ skilled chefs from non-EU countries.
InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) has described 2012 as a year of 'significant progress' for the company as it revealed revenue per available room (RevPAR) grew by 2.5 per cent in the UK.
John Derkach, the chief executive of Tragus, has revealed he hopes to have completed an ambitious project to refurbish the ‘vast bulk’ of the Café Rouge estate within three years in order to make the brand more contemporary.
The UK's booming specialist world cuisine restaurant sector appears to have received a reprieve as the Home Office has been advised to keep skilled chefs on the Shortage Occupation List allowing restaurateurs to continue to employ non-EU chefs.
Ibis, the economy hotel brand from France-based global operator Accor, has been named as the leading hotel brand in Europe with 1,277 hotels now operating under the Ibis name.
Inbound tourism contributed £19bn to the UK economy in 2012 as 31 million international tourists flocked here for the Olympics and the Queen's Diamond Jubilee celebrations, figures from the Office of National Statistics (ONS) have shown.
With the Government currently investigating how horsemeat has made it into processed beef products, restaurant, hotel and pub owners are being urged to take extra steps to know the provenance of the produce they are using to avoid being embroiled in future...
