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Most people rarely get things spot on first time around, and setting up a restaurant, pub or hotel business is no exception. But if you don’t get the design and branding on your second or even third site perfect, you’re in trouble of damaging your business.
A new report from Allegra Strategies suggests that the UK informal eating-out market will grow by 1 per cent to reach £40.5bn by the end of the year, despite growth being pegged back by recession
Carlson, the US-based hotel and restaurant chain, has acquired the remaining 60 per cent stake in TGI Friday’s in the UK for $50m (£31.96m)
An outbreak of herpes has devastated Pacific oyster stocks off the Kent coast at Whitstable and Faversham
Edinburgh-based Chinese restaurant Chop Chop has announced plans to grow to 12 sites over the next three years