Pizza Hut Delivery is to hire 2,500 staff in a recruitment spree after its plans for rapid expansion were boosted by surging demand for takeaways during the pandemic.
The Prime Minister is set to announce that hospitality businesses facing tougher tier restrictions from this week will receive additional financial support from the Government.
We round-up some of the main hospitality news stories from the past week including Sat Bains launching a Punjabi food business; and hospitality businesses having to face tier 2 and 3 restrictions.
Husband and wife duo Sam and Georgie Pearman will open gastropub The Double Red Duke in February next year with help from Hawksmoor and PittCue veteran Richard Turner.
Hotel and restaurant Auchrannie Resort on the Isle of Arran will not reopen until 29 January because of the Coronavirus restrictions imposed on the area, its owners say.
UKHospitality has warned that the landscape of the sector will be 'fundamentally degraded for the foreseeable future' if the Government fails to provide businesses with further financial support.
More than 31,000 pubs, bars, restaurants and cafes will remain closed in England after the second national lockdown lifts on 2 December thanks to the Government’s tier system.
More than 50 UK pub and brewing businesses have written the Prime Minister saying that pubs are being ‘scapegoated’ and warning that they could be lost forever unless he takes action.
Hospitality businesses across large swathes of northern England and the Midlands, including in Manchester, Lancashire, Newcastle, Birmingham and Leicester, will be forced to remain locked down under tougher Tier 3 restrictions.
The impact of the Coronavirus pandemic will wipe £14bn from the pub sector in 2020, although the market is set to tentatively recover next year according to Lumina Intelligence.
Individual Restaurants, which owns the Piccolino, Restaurant Bar & Grill, Opera Grill and Bank high street restaurant brands, has been acquired by the directors of Iceland supermarket, in a transaction worth more than £40m.
Harvester and All Bar One operator Mitchells & Butlers has confirmed 1,300 staff have been made redundant as a result of the impact to trade caused by the Coronavirus pandemic.
Most regions in England look set to be placed into the toughest two tiers of the Government's Coronavirus alert system with hospitality businesses bearing the brunt of the tougher restrictions.
The Chancellor's Spending Review has been met with disappointment by the hospitality sector for not doing enough to support businesses as they prepare to face tougher tier restrictions.
Hospitality businesses claimed £849m through the Chancellor’s Eat Out to Help Out scheme (EOHO) according to new data from HMRC, discounting more than 160 million meals,
Two Lights, the neighbourhood-style restaurant in London's Shoreditch from Clove Club alumnus Chase Lovecky, has announced it will close permanently due to ongoing Coronavirus restrictions making the business 'untenable'.
A second hospitality demonstration in Parliament Square is to take place early next month to protest the tougher restrictions set to be imposed on the sector by Government next week.
Publican Tim Foster says he will break lockdown restrictions and open his pub The Wire Mill in Surrey unless the Government can provide proof that it is unsafe to do so.
Two experienced chefs and an operations and franchise expert have teamed up to launch a collection of virtual delivery and dine-in food franchise brands.
Government plans to relax Coronavirus restrictions nationwide over the Christmas period have been branded a 'mockery' after it emerged the tougher restrictions imposed on hospitality venues would remain in place.
Hotel groups Accor and Ennismore are entering into negotiations to form what has been described as ‘the world’s leading lifestyle operator in the hospitality sector’ through an all-share merger.
Well-regarded Edinburgh fine dining restaurant Aizle has announced it will close 'until further notice' due to the impact on trade caused by the ongoing Coronavirus restrictions.
Former Restaurant Story head chef Angelo Sato plans to open an 'intimate' yakitori bar in January on the site formerly occupied by pan-Asian restaurant Freak Scene.
Voices from across the hospitality sector have demanded the Government provide evidence to explain its decision to target the industry with tighter restrictions under the new Coronavirus tier system.
Alex Ghalleb is spearheading a multi-faceted restaurant venture within the grounds of a Grade I-listed former church that will include a restaurant headed by high profile Israeli chef Elior Balbul.
Restaurants and pubs in Tier 3 areas will be restricted to takeaway only under tough new measures announced by the Government that have been described as being 'a restrictive straitjacket' on the sector at best and 'a lockdown in all but...
Bosses from some of the UK's biggest night-time economy operators will meet with the Business Secretary this week in an attempt to secure a potential lifeline for the sector.
UKHospitality has written to Rishi Sunak warning that additional financial support is vital to ensure hospitality businesses survive winter and are able to help power economic growth next year.
Plans for a tougher tier system in England that will see restaurants and pubs in Tier 3 areas restricted to takeaway only have been described as 'a bullet in the head' for hospitality.
Hospitality venues made up just 4.1% of Coronavirus exposure ‘common locations’ for the first two weeks of November, according to the latest figures from Public Health England (PHE).
We round-up some of the main hospitality news stories from the past week including Mitchells & Butlers announcing a raft of closures and TGI Fridays launching a new bar concept.
A petition has been launched calling for the Scottish Government to ‘tweak the tiers' and support the hospitality sector through what is guaranteed to be a tough festive season.
This month's selection of product news stories includes Sous Vide Tool's speedy new Imola induction hob, cutlery ranges from Pinti Inox and Tabasco's sriracha sauce.
More than a third of businesses in the accommodation and foodservice sectors fear they will not survive the next three months, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
Hospitality operators across the country are sceptical that they will be allowed to reopen on 3 December, the current date set for the lifting of the second lockdown in England, according to a new survey.
Tens of thousands of hospitality workers in Northern Ireland have been left with 'no hope' after the Executive announced that lockdown restrictions on the sector would be extended further.
