The Lowdown: ‘Helpy Hour’
With bars, cafés and restaurants facing catastrophic financial losses due to the Coronavirus, Belgium has launched the ‘helpy hour’ initiative, to try and stop its hospitality establishments from going under.
Archives for June 11, 2020
Just Eat poised to gobble up Grubhub
In a blow to rival Uber, Just Eat is on course to snap up Grubhub for £5.8b, creating the largest food delivery service outside China.
Oowee Vegan opens first London site
Bristol-based restaurant group Oowee has opened its first permanent London location in Dalston.
The new (ab)normal? What the future holds for restaurants
As the lockdown easing tentatively begins, restaurants owners’ minds are turning to reopening their businesses. But what does the short-term future hold for restaurants?
Chiktopia enters liquidation
'Better chicken’ restaurant concept Chiktopia has gone into liquidation less than a year after opening its debut restaurant within the Intu Lakeside shopping centre in Essex.
Michael Caines: “Lympstone Manor can be liberated from the past, then so can our society”
Chef Michael Caines has added his voice to the Black Lives Matter movement in a post on social media.
Pressure grows to cut two-metre social distancing rule
Conservative MPs are reportedly calling on Prime Minister Boris Johnson to cut the two-metre social distancing rule, a move many hospitality operators have said will be integral to their survival.