Britain’s top hospitality groups achieved modest like-for-like sales growth of 1.4% in February, the latest CGA RSM Hospitality Business Tracker reveals.
Chick ‘n’ Sours and Chicken Shop co-founder Carl Clarke has launched a food-focused incubator to help entrepreneurs get their products on supermarket shelves.
Award-winning Bristol-based operator Sandwich Sandwich is to make its debut in the capital later this year having secured a site in the City of London.
A new location for Sheffield fine dining restaurant Jöro and a damp squib of a budget for the hospitality sector were among the biggest stories of the week.
Companies House has begun rolling out ‘new and enhanced powers’ to improve the quality and reliability of its data and tackle misuse of the companies register.
The hospitality sector has reacted with criticism to the Spring Budget after Chancellor Jeremy Hunt failed to announce a much-needed reduction to VAT or business rates.
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has frozen alcohol duty until February 2025 in a ‘tax-cutting’ Budget designed to warm up voters ahead of an imminent general election.
Award-winning pub The Guinea Grill has reopened its doors following an expansion of the pub to create additional dining space and two new private dining rooms.
An ambitious food-led pub with rooms will launch in the hills of Wiltshire this summer following a complete restoration and expansion of an existing building.
Rob Hampton and Matt Lovell, the duo behind London seafood bar and kitchen The Oystermen, are to launch their third Covent Garden site later this month.
Hollywood actor Danny Trejo has chosen Portobello Road in London’s Notting Hill to launch the first international outpost of his LA-based Mexican restaurant brand Trejo’s Tacos.
Pour-your-own wine bar group Vagabond is in the process of appointing administrators as it looks to undertake a restructuring to safeguard the business.
Luke French and Stacey Sherwood-French are relocating their Sheffield fine dining restaurant Jöro to a site within the Oughtibridge Paper Mill development.
The CGA Prestige Foodservice Price Index recorded year-on-year inflation of 12.6% in January — a drop of 1.2 percentage points from December's rate of 13.8%.
This week's top news stories include details on Roberta Hall McCarron's next venture, the announcement of the 2024 AA Rosette Awards, and the sad death of Dave Myers at 66.
The return of Jeremy King, the birth of Josephine and new restaurants in Manchester, the Isle of Wight, and Liverpool are among this month’s key openings.