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Chancellor George Osborne has offered help to small and medium-size businesses (SME) in his autumn statement, which also promises to relax red tape around health and safety and make it easier to take on apprentices.
Richard Muir, the owner of Edinburgh restaurant Café Fish, has bought Livebait in Manchester days after the restaurant’s former owner Paramount Restaurant Group went into administration.
Travelodge has announced plans to develop seven new hotels alongside supermarket developments and pub companies as part of an ‘aggressive growth strategy.’
Chef Martin Wishart and hoteliers Sir Rocco Forte and Richard Solomons are the members of the hospitality industry who have been awarded honorary degrees by universities this week.
Fred Sirieix, general manager at Galvin at Windows restaurant, and Simon Vincent, Hilton Worldwide’s president for Europe, are stepping in to the boxing ring to take on a former champion to fight for a work apprenticeship scheme and charity.
Hilton has claimed it will create an extra 1,500 jobs in the industry by 2014 with the opening of 20 new hotels expected to happen in the next two years.
Roadside restaurant chain Little Chef is to roll out a completely new range of internal and external signage across all of its 162 sites over the next four years.