Cleaning solutions provider P&G Professional has released a new washing-up liquid ‘designed to tackle the toughest cleaning needs’ for restaurants, hotels and pubs.
The management team of The Mere Golf Resort & Spa in Cheshire has revealed its intention to set up a hotel management business next year that could see it take its successful operational blueprint to other properties across the North West.
Jamie Oliver has announced his original Fifteen restaurant will be re-launched at the end of April with a more relaxed, neighbourhood restaurant feel following a full refurbishment.
Oxfordshire-based pub operator Brakspear has opened its first managed pub in Henley-on-Thames and has said it is not ruling out operating further managed sites.
LivingSocial, the social e-commerce platform that helps restaurants find and retain customers, has released research which reveals that 89 per cent of British consumers now go online to discover new businesses.
London-based brewer and pubco Fuller's has announced current group managing director Simon Emeny will become the company's chief executive later this year.
The Hospitality Action charity (HA) is calling on organisations and professionals from all sectors of the hospitality industry to unite for the fifth annual Hospitality Action Week which takes place from 13-19 May.
London-based Italian restaurant group Made in Italy will re-launch its 'signature' restaurant Luna Rossa next month as part of development plans for the business.
Foodservice businesses across the UK are being urged to take more responsibility for serving the right type of fish after a survey has found that seven per cent of cod and haddock sold in restaurants was actually another species.
The Ivy House pub in Southwark is set to reopen this summer after a co-operative group completed an acquisition of the venue which they successfully listed as a community asset under the Localism Act.
International restaurant group Hakkasan has closed its fine-dining Japanese restaurant concept Chrysan just six months after opening the site on Broadgate West.
What skills do you need to be a hotel manager? Following a special media masterclass for select hospitality journalists, this was the question posed to Arie van der Spek, chief executive of Glion Institute of Higher Education.
The Key - a mysterious new cocktail bar, restaurant and live music lounge situated in a ‘hidden location’ in London’s West End – is set to open in May as the first in a series of themed bars across the capital from a new collective of nightclub and private...
Nadia Santini, head chef at Dal Pescatore in Italy, has been named as the 2013 Veuve Clicquot World's Best Female Chef by The World's 50 Best Restaurants, sponsored by S.Pellegrino and Acqua Panna.
Jason Atherton is planning to launch two further London restaurants by the end of this year, adding to the spring openings of Little Social and Social Eating House.
The Campaign for Real Ale (Camra) has hailed the scrapping of the Beer Duty Escalator in last month’s Budget as ‘a new beginning’ for the British pub and brewing industries as the consumer group launches a month-long celebration of British community pubs.
Eric Zwiebel from the Summer Lodge hotel and spa in Dorset has been named as the fourth best sommelier in the world at the finals of the prestigious Association de la Sommellerie Internationale (ASI) contest held in Tokyo.
Chef and restaurateur Jason Atherton talks about his growing restaurant empire and comparisons with his former boss Gordon Ramsay in an exclusive interview with Restaurant magazine this month.
Northampton-based Frozen ready meal firm Classic Cuisine has added a variety of desserts to its product range after acquiring desserts specialist Jon George.
MasterChef 2010 finalist Alex Rushmer and his business partner chef Ben Maude have opened their second restaurant in a Cambridgeshire pub owned by members of the local community.
Chris Wheeler began his career as Jean-Christophe Novelli’s right-hand man at Le Provence in Lymington and went on to work for the French celebrity chef for 10 years. He joined Stoke Park in 2003 and has been building up the hotel’s culinary reputation...
Sunaina Sethi, sommelier at one Michelin-star restaurant Trishna, is set to open The Pearson Room, her first solo restaurant, in Canary Wharf later this month.
Latte Pro, a stainless steel milk frothing jug that removes the need for use of a stick thermometer and helps turn out frothed milk of a consistent quality, is set to come to the UK after being awarded the right to be launched globally.
James Robson, the owner of British brasserie Mews of Mayfair, has taken over the site of Rocket in Mayfair and turned it into his own pizza restaurant.
The line-up for this year's Caffè Culture Show has been revealed and the focus will be on giving hospitality industry professionals business advice and practical tips on everything from perfecting a hot chocolate to raising beverage standards.
Hotels outside London have experienced revenue and profit growth for the first time since 2009 according to the latest UK Chain Hotels Market Review by market intelligence firm HotStats.
In spite of what is expected to be the coldest Easter since 1910, hotels, restaurants and pubs are gearing up for the ‘eggs-tended’ weekend with as over 2.5m Brits plan to take at least one overnight holiday trip here in the UK.
Simon Vincent, the European president of hotel operator Hilton Worldwide, has welcomed the Home Office's decision to split the responsibilities of the UK Border Agency and has called on the Government to use the move to simplify the visa process...
InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) has announced it has agreed to sell the famous InterContinental London Park Lane hotel for £301.5m to Constellation Hotel (Opco) UK, an affiliate of Middle Eastern private investment group Constellation Hotels.
Duncan Bannatyne has told BigHospitality he thinks many hospitality businesses across the UK have ‘a serious lack of training and knowledge’ when it comes to first aid provision, after the Dragons’ Den star experienced his own emergency last year.
Italian restaurant group Carluccio's is celebrating a 'record year' after its annual results brought pre-tax profits of £6.8m, a 15 per cent rise on the previous year.
An entrepreneur in south London has turned to crowdfunding website Kickstarter to help raise funds to set up London's first self-sustaining community gastropub.
Adnams, the Suffolk-based brewer, distiller and retailer, has revealed its profits jumped by 3.5 per cent in 2012 but has admitted difficult pub trading conditions are continuing and are making it difficult for the company to be 'too positive'...
Husband and wife business partners Charlie Raworth and Emma Hutchinson, who run the two Shepherd’s Bush live music and events venues Bush Hall and The Music House for Children, are set to launch a neighbouring all-day restaurant this spring.
Coffee brand Taylors of Harrogate has developed a range of coffee pouches for foodservice that contain just the right amount of ground coffee to produce a 1.5 litre jug of filter coffee.
In the third part of our special feature on non-alcoholic drinks, BigHospitality sat down with leading mixologist and bar owner Tony Conigliaro for an exclusive video on how to make money from mocktails and to discover some current trends and practical...
De Vere Village Urban Resorts is placing an extra focus on attracting the family market with the launch of Vinny & Vito, a new healthy casual dining Italian restaurant brand which the hotel group hopes will appeal to what it calls an ‘increasingly...
London-based bar operator ETM Group has just agreed terms to open a modern European restaurant and cocktail bar on the ground floor of the One Canada Square skyscraper in Canary Wharf.
Street Kitchen – the Airstream caravan concept from Jun Tanaka and Mark Jankel – has just opened up a third venue on Shoreditch High Street, which will run until the end of the year ahead of a potential permanent site within the upcoming Shoreditch Village...
Hotel giant Accor has today announced the launch of Adagio – its European aparthotel brand – into the UK, with the first property opening in Liverpool tomorrow (27 March) and more to follow in Birmingham, London, Edinburgh, Manchester and Glasgow.
Cocktail bar group Be At One opens its first site outside London this week in Reading and is set to open up to 10 venues outside the capital as it looks to grow to 30 sites within three years.
Take five and catch up with the latest innovations in tea and coffee within the industry in the second installment of our focus on non-alcoholic drinks.
German coffee machine manufacturer WMF has launched the 1200s coffee machine in the UK to give operators of the smallest hospitality businesses the chance to offer bean to cup coffee to their customers.
Pan Asian restaurant chain Cosmo, which currently has 12 sites across the UK, is set to open its first outlet in the East Midlands next month with the conversion of a 15,000 sq.ft cinema in Derby into an all-you-can-eat buffet, serving 180 dishes from...
The Bristol Thali Company is set to open its biggest restaurant to date this week with a view to expanding further and opening its first UK venue outside Bristol by the end of the year.
With alcohol consumption going down and the Budget pushing prices up on wine, cider and spirits yet again, there is arguably no better time to push non-alcoholic drinks like tea and coffee.
