New CGA research provides 'cautious optimism for strong December trading' with young adults, in particular, set to embrace pubs, bars and restaurants for Christmas celebrations.
This week's main hospitality news stories include fears of fresh Coronavirus restrictions, changes to business rates in the Autumn Budget, and La Tasca leaving the UK highstreet after 28 years.
Publicans Maria and Scott Hunter will open sustainable pub Pig’s Head in Clapham next month, kickstarting a new string of projects for the duo under their newly-formed Antidote Projects business.
London-based fried chicken brand Coqfighter will open two new bricks and mortar restaurants before the end of the year, with a further four in the pipeline.
London business owners including Andrew Love, senior advisor at The Ritz London; Simon Thomas, CEO at The Hippodrome Casino; Doris Greif, managing director at The Langham, London; and CT Tang OBE, chair at London Chinatown Chinese Association are calling...
The future of respected restaurant guidebook The Good Food Guide has been secured with its purchase by UK hospitality industry membership network CODE Hospitality.
The one-year business rates discount for sectors including hospitality and leisure announced in the Chancellor's Budget has been described as 'a sticking plaster' that 'will not help the bigger firms'.
The hospitality trade has broadly welcomed today's Budget announcement, but expressed disappointment at the Chancellor's decision not to permanently lock in a lower rate of VAT for the sector.
Chancellor Rishi Sunak has set out his plan to 'ease the burden' of business rates in a Budget that promised more frequent revaluations and a one-year discount for the sector.
New data from the Night Time Industries Association (NTIA) reveal that trading levels for Scotland's night-time economy have been decimated in the first week of the country's ‘vaccine passport’ scheme.
Chef Ferdinand ‘Budgie’ Montoya is to launch a new restaurant concept under his Filipino barbecue and lechon brand Sarap at rotating pop-restaurant 10 Heddon Street in London’s Mayfair next month.
Ahead of today’s (27 October) Autumn Budget, here are five things to look out for that will have a significant impact on hospitality as it recovers from the pandemic.
Pret A Manger and fast food brand A&W Food Services of Canada have reached an initial agreement to introduce the Pret brand and products to A&W restaurants in Canada.
Restaurant brand La Tasca has closed its last remaining restaurant, bringing to an end its presence on the UK highstreet 28 years after it first launched.
The Hoxton in London's Holborn has launched an underground wine bar and and restaurant incubator in the basement space previously occupied by Chicken Shop.
Hospitality leaders in Scotland have described the first weekend of mandatory Covid vaccine certificate enforcement as 'an unmitigated disaster', with footfall falling by up to 40% and staff facing abuse.
More than 200 hospitality leaders have signed a letter to the Chancellor ahead of Wednesday's (27 October) Budget, calling for a permanent reduced rate of VAT for the sector.
This week's main hospitality news stories include D&D London plotting significant expansion, fears over inflation, and Alexis Noble closing her Stoke Newington restaurant Wander due to visa issues.
Joshua Owens-Baigler and Amar Takhar are to overhaul the London Soho space they launched as Golden Gai last year and reopen it as Japanese 'kushikatsu' restaurant Dai Chi.
Some 81% of pub operators are increasing prices in their businesses this year, a poll conducted by The Morning Advertiser - BigHospitality's sister site - has found.
Lewis Hamilton-backed vegan fast-food group Neat Burger is ramping up its expansion in the capital following the completion of a funding round that valued the company at $70m.
Widespread supply problems and increased demand from the hospitality sector combined to push up prices by 1.2% in August, the new edition of the CGA Prestige Foodservice Price Index reveals.
Indo-Chinese fusion restaurant Fatt Pundit has doubled up with a site in London's Covent Garden that's billed as 'an evolution' of the group's Soho original.
