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Restaurant technology, including pay-at-table apps, has grown in importance among restaurant goers as a result of Government restrictions imposed to help stop the spread of Coronavirus, a new report has found.
Hospitality businesses in central Scotland will be required to close for 16 days from Friday, with licensed premises across the rest of the country temporarily banned from selling alcohol indoors.
Le Pain Quotidien has appointed Steven Whibley, formerly of Gail’s Bakery and an original franchisee of Le Pain Quotidien UK, as its new managing director to steer the company as it emerges from lockdown.
Greene King is to close dozens of sites and axe hundreds of jobs following a slump in trade exacerbated by the Government’s 10pm curfew on hospitality businesses.
Over 400,000 jobs in the UK events industry could be lost by the end of the year according to a survey carried out by online event planning platform Feast It.
UKHospitality CEO Kate Nicholls has urged MPs to rethink the 10pm curfew, saying it was “crippling hospitality businesses”.
The Government has been forced to delay a parliamentary vote on the 10pm curfew in the face of growing backbench opposition to the measure.
Restaurateur Terry Laybourne will open Café 21 at Fenwick in York under his 21 Hospitality Group.
Restaurants, pubs and bars in Scotland could face fresh restrictions and even be forced to close completely under new Coronavirus lockdown measures due to be announced later today (7 October).