Market research firm BDRC Continental, a leading provider of hospitality intelligence, has combined its three main customer experience programmes for hotels and meeting venues under one brand - VenueVerdict.
Five Guys, the popular US burger chain, which launched its first UK site to long queues last week in Covent Garden, is understood to have secured a third site here, at Westfield London in Shepherd’s Bush.
Starwood Hotels & Resorts has completed an extensive renovation of The Park Tower Knightsbridge hotel which is part of The Luxury Collection brand operated by the US-based company.
Companies and professional bodies in the hospitality sector are to be asked to support a new series of vocational qualifications for 16 to 19 year-olds.
Yotam Ottolenghi has revealed he has decided not to renew the lease on his smallest site on Holland Street in Kensington and will be closing the deli with a view to opening a larger site next year.
The hospitality and tourism industries have welcomed news that VisitBritain's funding is to be cut by less than expected and VisitEngland's budget is to be frozen.
Nespresso has partnered with French Michelin-starred chef Mauro Colagreco to create Crealto - a Nespresso Grand Cru coffee inspired by gastronomy - which will be exclusively available to business customers for a limited period this summer.
Zaks, the Norfolk-based American diner restaurant group, has revealed details of a franchise scheme which it hopes will see 30 new diner restaurants open in the next five years.
Manchester United star Ryan Giggs and former United defender and pundit Gary Neville have together launched a football-themed hospitality company with a restaurant being launched in Westfield Stratford later this year and a hotel opening in Manchester...
New York restaurateur Danny Meyer, who opens the first branch of his burger restaurant Shake Shack outside of the US in London tomorrow, believes there is plenty of space within the market for more burger restaurants, saying he welcomed the arrival of...
The eight chefs who will battle it out at The Restaurant Show to be crowned National Chef of the Year 2013 have been revealed after four toughly-contested semi-finals.
Lancashire-based root vegetable grower Huntapac has launched a packet of crisps using its vegetables which will be exclusively available to wholesale buyers.
The co-owner of a new restaurant in Watford has said the domination of branded restaurant chains and fast food outlets is making it increasingly difficult for independents to stay afloat and contributing to Britain’s obesity crisis.
Warwickshire-based business CD Pub Co has added a third venue to its portfolio of food-led pubs, having purchased the freehold of The Lygon Arms in Feckenham from Enterprise Inns.
Property developer Patrick McKillen has today suffered ‘a complete and total defeat’ at the hands of the billionaire Barclay brothers after losing his latest appeal in a two-year dispute over the ownership and control of the Maybourne Hotel Group.
Less than a week after DoubleTree by Hilton entered Dundee, Hilton Worldwide’s upscale hotel brand has added the DoubleTree by Hilton London Hyde Park to its growing portfolio, following a £10m refurbishment of the 228-bedroom property.
Despite being continually battered by a perfect storm of high taxes, cheap supermarket alcohol and grim economic times, pubs across the UK remain resolute in their work with charities, raising more than £106m in the past year alone – an average of £2,742...
Hawksmoor, Be At One and Luminar were among the big winners of the inaugural ‘Late Night Awards’ from the Association of Licensed Multiple Retailers (ALMR), held at a special ‘Dusk ‘til Dawn’ event in London’s Café de Paris earlier this week.
Chef Scott Hallsworth, who announced new Japanese izykaya Kurobuta earlier this week, has said he plans to roll the concept out to other sites once the original is established.
“I still worry that it’s all going to come tumbling down. I still feel like I’m 17 and I’ve got it all to prove. I have to pinch myself when I sit down and think about everything that’s happened to me. But I don’t get complacent about it,” so answered...
Futura Foods, which earlier this year launched its Yamas! range of Greek and Cypriot cheeses into foodservice, has launched a Chilli variant of its Halloumi Burger Slices.
The battle for control over the budget hotel market has today taken another turn as Whitbread has announced the launch of ‘Hub by Premier Inn’, a new city centre brand offering rooms around 25 per cent cheaper than standard Premier Inn pricing.
Electrolux Professional has updated its 'green & clean' hood dishwasher with new innovations including an efficient water pre-heating system and an automatic de-lime cycle.
Chef Bruno Loubet's new restaurant Grain Store, which unusually places vegetables, instead of meat or fish at the heart of its dishes, is put under scrutiny in the July issue of Restaurant magazine.
Staff at Gordon Ramsay at Claridge's held their last service yesterday (Sunday 30 June) before the restaurant closed its doors for good after 12 years residing at the five-star London hotel.
Chefs and front-of-house staff from The Ritz, Le Manoir aux Quat'Saisons and Gleneagles are among the winners in the Royal Academy of Culinary Arts' 2013 Awards of Excellence.
Marco Pierre White has given the thumbs up to an initiative in Nottingham which will see its restaurants, pubs and other eating-out venues placed centre stage as part of a move to promote independent businesses in the city.
Cloud-based hotel management and distribution system provider Guestline has launched a mobile module for its Rezlynx web-based Property Management System (PMS).
The shortlist for the Restaurant & Bar Design Awards 2013 has been announced and 86 UK venues, including The Tramshed, Sushisamba and Cabana, have scooped nominations.
On the same day that we announced a former MasterChef: The Professionals finalist would be opening a 14-cover restaurant in Notting Hill, BigHospitality has heard from another London-based restaurateur who is opening a similar-sized venue in Bermondsey.
Worcestershire-based hotel group Cotswold Inns & Hotels has acquired the 19-bedroom Close Hotel in Tetbury, Gloucestershire, taking the company's estate of hotels up to eight.
Coffee has become a 'growing part of the sales mix' at pub and bar group TCG according to chief operating officer Nigel Wright whose company has just formed a new partnership with a coffee supplier to boost its sales further.
A marketing graduate who gave up a lucrative career in insurance to work as a chef in some of London’s top restaurants has just opened the first restaurant of his own near Ramsgate in Kent.
Jamie Jones, one half of Manchester bar consultants The Liquorists, has been named as the world's best gin bartender in an annual, week-long, invitation-only contest held in France earlier this month.
Marianne Lumb, a finalist in the 2009 series of MasterChef: The Professionals, is to launch her first restaurant – an eponymous 14-cover venture in Notting Hill – in September.
A former lawyer, Julia Hands founded Hand Picked Hotels in 1999 with her private equity financier husband - Guy Hands. Her hands-on approach has helped the collection grow to 17 purposefully individual hotels which will soon be joined by two recent acquisitions.
The Balvenie, a range of single malts crafted by ‘malt master’ David Stewart, has launched Balvenie Tun 1401 Batch 8 - a one-off’ single malt married from 12 casks of the distillery’s precious stocks of aged spirit.
Strong sales of food, wine and coffee across Greene King's pub and restaurant estate over the last year helped push sales up 4.8 per cent to £1.194m and pre-tax profit up almost 7 per cent to £162m it reported today.
The team behind a number of successful London bars and nightclubs including Barts and Bunga Bunga have brought ‘70s Manhattan’ to Soho with the launch of underground nightclub, Disco.
The new head chef of the Hambrough is on a mission to take the hotel and restaurant ‘to the next level’, following Robert Thompson’s departure from the Isle of Wight business earlier this year.
Budget hotel chain Travelodge has pledged to offer 50 work experience placements to young people in London this year in a bid to tackle unemployment and find future staff for the industry.
