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Restaurants, pubs and hotels, including Macdonald Burlington, Pollen Street Social, Barracuda and Best Western tell BigHospitality about special events and promotions they're running to attract more customers.
Cocoa grower and chocolatier Hotel Chocolat has opened Roast + Conch, a casual café concept serving cocoa-based food and drink, in London's Seven Dials district of Covent Garden with plans for a fine dining restaurant in the UK to follow.
Locatel has launched a new multimedia ‘infotainment’ system that hoteliers can connect to in-room TVs to provide guests with news feeds, TV, radio and on-demand films.
Jamie Oliver has acquired a site in Winchester for the first Union Jacks restaurant outside London it has been confirmed, while the successful Italian casual dining concept Jamie’s Italian will see five more openings before Autumn amid plans for a...
The number of hospitality businesses falling into administration increased by 19.3 per cent in 2011, indicating that the sector was one of the worst hit by the economic crisis.
Richard Muir has worked in the industry for the past 30 years, starting out as a chef before moving into corporate catering. He was managing director of Sodexo’s UK corporate business and opened restaurants for Gary Rhodes before buying and redeveloping...
Premier Inn, the UK’s largest hotel chain owned by Whitbread, has secured planning permission for a new £10 million, 175-bedroom property in Bristol’s city centre.
Fuller’s, the brewer and pub operator, has announced they are to acquire 15 freehold, tied and tenanted pubs from the pubco Enterprise Inns in a deal costing the London-based company £22.9m.