With some European countries warily starting to ease restrictions on hospitality businesses, what could this mean for when UK restaurants might re-open and what that could look like.
Just Eat will extend the period of time during which it offers a 25% discount for NHS workers after reporting that one million meals had been ordered by NHS staff in the first two weeks of the offer.
The Government is being called upon to offer more support to the thousands of seasonal workers and new starters who do not currently qualify for payments under the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (JRS).
More than 6,000 people have signed a petition calling on the Government to include tronc and service charge payments within the calculated wages of hospitality employees that have been furloughed.
Only 9% of money earmarked to help small companies struggling during the Coronavirus pandemic has so far been paid out by local councils, according to retail estate adviser Altus Group.
High-end restaurant group D&D London has launched an online platform to provide support and guidance for its 2000 employees while the Coronavirus crisis is ongoing.
Four of the industry’s leading trade bodies have joined together to ask the Government to expand and accelerate the distribution of funds from its Retail and Hospitality Grant Scheme.
London-based grime artist Big Zuu, whose only professional experience in the kitchen was working the grill in a Nando’s for six months, is launching his own cookery TV show.
The Restaurant Group (TRG) expects to reopen around 400 of its 600 sites by December under a scenario it has put together in reaction to the ongoing Coronavirus crisis.
Rare Restaurants CEO Martin Williams and former Obikà and Itsu boss David Haimes have teamed up with a group of thirty cross-sector leaders to create ‘All Together’, which offers ‘pro bono’ mentoring and advice for company founders and CEO’s affected...
The Government is being urged to introduce a nine-month rent free period to help businesses that have been forced to close due to the Coronavirus pandemic.
UK Hospitality has launched an online training platform in partnership with CPL Learning to provide access to learning, wellbeing and personal development resources to furloughed employees.
Deliveroo is partnering with supermarket chain Morrisons as it continues to diversify its offering to meet the needs of customers during the Coronavirus crisis.
TiPJAR and Rotaready have joined forces to launch a furlough calculator to help hospitality workers estimate what their earnings will be under the Government’s Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme.
Councillors have been asked to consider ‘a more flexible approach’ to the collection of licensing fees and late-night levy charges while the Coronavirus crisis is ongoing.
The first patients have started arriving at the The Best Western Rembrandt hotel in Weymouth, the first hotel in the country to be turned into a discharge hospital to help the NHS cope with the Coronavirus crisis.
Businesses face a “cliff-edge scenario” according to the latest figures published by the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC), which reveal most are struggling to access the Government’s loan and grant schemes.
Updated guidance regarding the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme says workers will not be entitled to tip payments while they are furloughed, which has led to an outcry from trade body UKHospitality.
The April edition of Restaurant magazine, featuring Luke Selby and his brothers taking on Evelyn's Table at The Blue Posts, Gail's Bakery at 15, and Luke French's Sheffield restaurant Joro is now available to read online.
Martin Williams is back in the saddle at Gaucho leading an ambitious redesign and repositioning project that – all going to plan – will help the 25-year-old Argentine beef specialist appeal to the next generation of diners.
Leon’s grocery and ready meal delivery service has launched today (7 April) with an aim of reach the vulnerable and elderly during the Coronavirus pandemic.
Mark Hix has said that the decision to appoint administrators for his restaurant businesses was done without his support, a move he says will result in his staff being made redundant without being able to be put on furlough.
Bacardi is to launch a virtual bar in partnership with Deliveroo Editions, which will enable bars to deliver cocktails to local customers in London and Manchester from next week.
More than 3,650 small restaurants, pubs, shops and other types of retail, leisure and hospitality premises in England will lose out on £15,000 of Government grant funding because of an ‘anomlay’ in the design of the grant funding scheme.
The future of Mark Hix’s restaurant empire is in doubt after the chef reportedly appointed administrators across three of his businesses late last week.
The Restaurant Group (TRG) has announced a raft of measures designed to get it through the ongoing Coronavirus crisis, including more flexible banking facilities and executive pay cuts.
A website has been launched to connect farmers with local workers as the agriculture industry seeks to fill seasonal roles with people displaced by the Coronavirus crisis.
Greek street food player The Athenian opened its first delivery-only kitchen in London’s Battersea earlier this year, and in the midst of the Coronavirus crisis is looking to establish more. Co-founder Neo Christodoulou explains
East Anglia-based gastropub operator Chestnut says its recently launched takeaway service across it estate will donate revenues to the NHS during the Coronavirus shutdown.
The Government has announced it is extending the Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme (CBILS) it launched last week to larger businesses in a bid to help as many affected by Coronavirus as possible.
On trade wine supplier Berkmann Wine Cellars has launched an online platform - ‘Help 4 Hospitality’ - to deliver wine to consumers while donating a share of the profits to the hospitality sector.
Trade body UKHospitality has written to the Government asking for an immediate extension of the forfeiture moratorium for six months and a widening of the scope to include broader debt enforcement measures, including winding-up orders, statutory demands...
Almost three quarters of people now view deliveries and takeaways from their local pub or restaurant as an ‘essential service’ during the Coronavirus pandemic.