Plant-based fast food brand Clean Kitchen Club has closed its Notting Hill site and is to refurbish its Camden restaurant as part of an overhaul of its estate.
This week's top news stories include TriSpan acquiring a stake in Mowgli, Hrishikesh Desai's next venture, and the Thesleff Group's latest acquisition.
Overall staff headcounts in hospitality were 5% higher in December 2022 compared to 2021, but remain 11% lower than in 2019, according to the latest figures from Fourth.
Hospitality recruitment initiative Hospitality Rising has hit 55,000 job applications 12 weeks after the launch of its ‘Rise Fast, Work Young’ campaign.
The team behind Manchester restaurant, pizzeria and venue Ramona and the Firehouse will open a 5,000-capacity entertainment destination later this year.
Chef and restaurateur Andy Sheridan will open a second site of his Black & Green neighbourhood restaurant - albeit under a new name - as well as a pub in Gloucestershire this spring.
Los Mochis owner the Thesleff Group has acquired long-running Italian institution Sale e Pepe on Sloane Square in London's Knightsbridge ahead of the restaurant's 50th anniversary.
Businesses expect a further rise of 82% in their energy bills when the Government’s support is significantly reduced in April, a new hospitality sector survey reveals.
The UK hospitality sector has high staff retention levels compared to other European countries despite the current staffing crisis it faces, according to new research.
Hospitality representatives in Scotland have called on the country's government to provide the sector with more financial support after three quarters of operators warned they may not last the year.
The average price of food items has risen across all channels with total food menu inflation at 4.1% between the third and fourth quarter of 2022, according to Lumina Intelligence.
Hospitality businesses are being encouraged to take part in Be Inclusive Hospitality's 2023 Inside Hospitality Survey, which launches today (31 January).
Advances in areas such as AI, robotics, the metaverse and payment technology look set to have a major impact on the restaurant space over the coming years.
The hospitality sector has recorded the fastest-rising wages in the UK over the past decade with average weekly earnings for full-time workers rising 53% between 2012 and 2022.
After years of political back-and-forth, legislation intended to ensure hospitality staff receive all the money left to them in tips by customers is now closer than ever to becoming law.
Yuma Hashemi, the chef-owner and sommelier behind Clerkenwell restaurant The Drunken Butler, will bring his second venture to east London this March with the opening of a new wine bar.
A campaign calling on restaurants to take farmed salmon off of menus has received the backing of chefs including Silo's Douglas McMaster and The Palmerston's Lloyd Morse.
Soon-to-launch Hyde Park Corner hotel The Peninsula London will be home to a contemporary European restaurant from two-star chef Claude Bosi as well as an ‘innovative’ Chinese restaurant.
McWin, the private equity backer of high street bakery chain Gail's, is to acquire a majority stake in German restaurant brand L’Osteria with a view to driving further European growth.
Fast-growing bar and restaurant brand Coyote Ugly will launch a site in London’s Piccadilly Circus this spring having secured a former souvenir shop on Shaftesbury Avenue.
