Some of the UK’s largest hospitality businesses have signed an open letter penned by UKHospitality urging the rail unions to avoid strikes over the ‘crucial’ Christmas period.
This week's top news stories include Harrods' plan to overhaul its fourth floor restaurant portfolio, the first London site for Danny Trejo’s taco brand, and Merlin Labron-Johnson’s new Kickstarter campaign.
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Hot Stone Group has closed its modern Nepalese restaurant The Gurkhas on London’s Great Portland Street after less than six months of trading and relaunched it as Japanese concept WagyuNSushi.
Mexican brand Breddos Tacos will open its first London restaurant in six years next month, taking over the space above mezcal bar Doña on Stoke Newington High Street.
LSL Capital, the luxury London-based group led by Samyukta Nair, is to establish outposts in Dubai for both its Jamavar and MiMi Mei Fair restaurant brands.
Harrods is in the midst of an international chef shopping spree as it looks to build a restaurant portfolio that matches the lofty ambitions of its retail operation.
The casual dining brand behind Chili’s® Grill & Bar and Maggiano’s Little Italy® on how it uses technology to serve 1,000,000 guests per day without screwing up.
Somerset boutique hotel Number One Bruton will soon expand into a neighbouring pub to create a ‘more expansive’ food and drink offer, more rooms and a communal space.
This week's top news stories include McWin acquiring a majority stake in Big Mamma, Native at Browns closing its doors, and Market Halls' plans for expansion.
UKHospitality has called on the Government, rail unions and companies to resume negotiations as a matter of urgency and try to resolve the ongoing train strikes.
Hospitality entrepreneur Roop Partap Choudhary is to launch a second London restaurant under his modern Indian restaurant brand Colonel Saab near Trafalgar Square.
Restaurant and hotels provided a large downward contribution to consumer price inflation last month, where the annual rate fell to 8.3% in August compared to 9.6% in July.
Nearly half of hospitality operators are utilising tech to improve staffing challenges such as retention and churn, according to the latest Business Confidence Survey from CGA by NIQ and Fourth.
Chef Abby Lee will relocate her modern Malaysian restaurant concept Mambow from Peckham's Market Stalls to a permanent site in Lower Clapton, east London, next month.
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